Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

To work, poked at this & that, made ooo-build HEAD play nice with Debian, tried to file issues up-stream: firefox's Waiting for www.openoffice.org... is becoming a personal motto. Why invest a few thousand dollars in robust & well maintained community infrastructure when you can save them, and burn tens of hours of expensive developer time & pump the collective blood pressure ? After counting 80 seconds and the page still not loaded, looked away and it appeared.
Poked at misc. patches; added 'base' to the quickstarter. Continued my ongoing dialog with the sysadmin team about getting CVS access to commit to ooo-build for several established, external contributors - apparently it's not possible to have people added, no-matter how competant, or with large outstanding features / patches in-hand without having their stuff committed by others beforehand. A shame. Made particularly less interesting by the pleasure of reading huge unified double diffs; eg. add 1 line to a file with 20 deltas and the unified diff of the unified diff explodes.
Lunch; re-worked column, conference call. Re-worked the quickstarter to add 'base' - unfortunately via an acutely ugly method, since the previous person hadn't cleaned up after themselves; filed a better method up-stream. Worked on the thinner startup / splash / factory thing.