Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

To mail; X apparently doesn't like -Bdirect; must poke at that at some stage. Interested to read in the Economist's survey of business organisation:

Nigel Nicholson, a professor of organisational behavior at the London Business School, called the matrix structure "one of the most difficult and least successful organisational forms."

Messrs Ghosal and Bartlett wrote in the past tense, suggesting that companies had escaped from the matrix corset. But 15 years after the article was published, many are still trying to struggle free.

glad I don't have to report to 2 people.
Cut-down & filed nasty export to PPT97 bug, Thorsten pointed out cpd a Cut and Paste coding Detector - should run that over OO.o; would be amusing no doubt.
Chased strange session problem on login, odd that my ~/.gnome2/session contains all manner of obsolete & unusual things. Fixed an file / argument handling issue with the quickstarter, 2 conference calls.
Dish washer man came around to notice our dish-washer is miraculously cured (intermittent fault vanished), expensive hobby. Dinner, J. out (very tired).
It seems I mistook Hans-Peter Jansen for Hans Petter Jansson, and accidentally congratulated the wrong one on a recent arrival; oh dear.
I only open my mouth to change feet.