Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up late. Mail parsing, back to code cleaning and cruft removal - switching fully to ORBit2, need to re-write bonobo-async.
Mark caught the poa / servant destruction issue in the boundary between ORBit2 and libbonobo - interesting, but difficult.
David explained my misunderstanding of C++, which comes down to the fact that you can't cast across an inheritance hierarchy - only up and down, ie. with:
```
 A : C, D, E
 B : D, E, F
 Where C D E F are independany base classes.
 You can't have:
        foo (D in_arg)
	{
	       E tmp = in_arg;
	}
 Since you can't cast across the tree.
```
Apparently:
```
The proper design for the case above would to have
G: D, E
and
A: C, G
B: G, F
```
with a dummy level in between. It's at times like this that I'm convinced that aggregation is conceptualy far simpler.
Pondered the licensing issues (with no conclusion) of run-time linking propriatory MS code via libwine into a GPLd' application.
Merged up Tim Mooney's alpha-dec-osf5.1 bonobo compile fixes, nice.
Got annoyed with the server's broken USB speedtouch driver / PPPoATM / Alcatel propriatotry binary code - and tried to build a new driver / kernel. Totaly failed, what a total mess.
Spent a while working out the best way to weed out the forest of deadlocks in ORBit's recursive allocation code. Fixed it all.
Off to Cell group at Mark & Ruth's house, rather good. Back, bed.