Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, Bob Sutor's blog is interesting pwrt. the certainty of ECMA approving OpenXML, the real question is what will ISO do ? Florian pointed me at this nice ODF Alliance Fact Sheet, really a set of interesting questions, laying out the arguments here.
Whacked some soda down the bath plug to try to shift the irritating partial blockage; perhaps the fact that there is only 4 inches of run off over a 10 foot pipe is related to the bug. Waited, plunged enthusiastically, no obvious improvement, bother.
One thing that jrb told me last week, that is most interesting is that one of Carl Worth's focuses for Cairo optimisation is OpenOffice.org impress: that's pretty neat, and if so good news for OO.o.
Read through a load of ORBit2 / bonobo patches that Kjartan prodded me about. Lunch, team meeting, good call with Mathias, internal guy with cut/paste problem phoned, hmm.
J. out for a party with the lasses, leaving me with 3 babies to look after.
Our (AMD sponsored) report into optimisation opportunities in OO.o is now available here it is only ~9 metric pages long, with some pretty graphs; the time estimates & rankings are in highly mythical man-days.
Finally wrote up a report from my travel and sent it, grabbed a SL10.2 RC1 to GM deltaiso, and set the apply off - if only I had threaded the right bit of that code it'd be 2x as fast. If someone wants to integrate pbzip2 into the 'deltarpm' tool, that'd make a lot of people happy (some nice graphs on that page too).