Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up earlyish, it seems the alarm clock is loosing a lot of time, must take my working one home. Read the Scientology flier, What causes unexplained illness and pain ? What causes unhappy relationships? Why can't you believe in yourself?. It seems Mr Hubbard imbibed deeply of the (mostly American) cult of self psychology. Vincent Peele clearly needed more of a religious (technological ?) angle on his work. Somewhat tied to Inner Healing and other rather odious self obsessed works.
Got to the office, and I have a parcel - wow, Turns out to be Mandrake 8.2, mouse-mats, stickers, and a T-shirt. Very generous of them.
Julia reports that she slept in the corner of the bed as usual - the gall of it - why would I steal bed space from her ?
Helped Laca get popt usage sorted in Gnome 2.0. Tweaked the text positioning in gnome-session to stop the ugly cropping problems. Fixed gnome-vfs-init so it doesn't lock a pthread lock before initializing pthread, to make valgrind happy for Julian.
Poked more at nautilus, the icon cache / loader stuff is amazingly inefficient, just amazing. Poked at various other things, had several interesting discussions with Nat.
Found the in-icon text preview things seems to be holding off the icon rendering - which sucks, very noticable in fact. There are 79 icons on my initial desktop, and with in-icon text stuff, the last 8 delay the window show by ~3/4 a second - not good.
Back to the barracks, packed etc. sleep.