gloriously free and unemployed the rain comes down. I've
suggested to the company that I'll maintain the code for
free if they make it open source, but I don't think they've
got the balls to do that, even though it would mean they
sold loads of their core products.
The UK parliament passed the RIP bill yesterday. The
security services […]

really quality code, by people who really know what they're
doing. There's some other developers in the same office who
are struggling along with MSXML, and I particularly like
telling them 'Yeah, I found a bug, but I told them and they
fixed it a couple of hours later'.

if I manage to get free before the specs shift again. I'm
looking forward to a long break. I think I'll start with a
couple of weeks in the Alps then I'll devote a few weeks to
a particular open source project that I've been thinking
about doing for some time. It'll be an experiment - seeing
if I'm able […]