Hacking: templ now has a C# implementation. That makes four implementations of the templating system: Python, Tcl, Java and C#. C#'s as keyword is handy for cleaning up casting logic that needs quite a few more lines of code in Java. No need for casts in Python, or Tcl for that matter !

And development on levitt continues to grind forward. I'm in the middle of yet another refactoring. I reckon that's par for the course when building a framework and several sample apps simultaneously.

Kid's birthdays: Miles had his 5th a couple of weeks ago. 20 5 year olds rampaging around the house ! We hired a bouncy castle which the kids loved. However, some of the boys got a bit hyper, and there was the odd 'incident' on the bouncy castle. Cordelia's second is coming up soon, then we're done with birthdays until December. Phew !