Hacking: got in some quality hacking over the last weekend. After much gnashing of teeth discovered that Zope's filter_manage_options() was screwing up my manage tabs. A minor breakthrough, followed by some solid progress. Also, what is up with pyexpat.so ? It's not in the Python 2.1 distro built into Zope 2.5. Joel's recent comments make me wonder if XUL will be handy for the the more interactive aspect of levitt's VPE. Otherwise it's going to be a fully fledged fat client.

Arguing: David McCusker has lost interest in arguing. So have I. It's odd. Back in my teens and twenties I used to hold political, philosophical and technical views with passion, and argue for them with force. I would defend any of my chosen ideological positions at the drop of a hat. Now such a defence has to be dragged out of me. I've lost interest in changing other people's minds. I'm only interested in changing my own mind. And I'm unashamed about the fact that my views shift, and are sometimes contradictory. Consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind, and semantic sloppiness is the prerequisite of progress !