Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, poked mail, relatively light: nice. Knocked up an odf-converter-1.0.0 release, and had a go with it.
Train - off to Waterloo, arrived in the nick of time for bagel & boarding. Hacked away at string interning again, more analysis of the places where string duplication occurs. Another big hit in configmgr, it seems lots of our duplicates arrive from here, and come from underlying duplication in the XML config data. Prolly should just intern every incoming configmgr key.
It seems the Hilton La Defense is built inside some sort of concrete cave: very strange indeed, also I have an 'elevator' feature outside my window - whereby people can go up/down just outside it and look in: neat.
Read some Gartner slide-ware, I didn't realise that Microsoft's Software Assurance programme, combined with their Office 2007 slip, means if you renewed your SA in Sept/Oct(/Nov?) 2003 - you paid but got no new version.
Committed fix for vcl gcache hash shrink crasher. Highly amused to read thing the gyst of "can't hack XYZ into glibc because of very strong encryption of glibc sources", what a nice metaphore for unreadability.
Burst blisters on both heels from new shoes: nice ... I wonder which effect is most substantial: heel hardening, or shoe softening. Poked at Mono samples, and odf-converter performance, it turns out there are a load of nice winforms sample apps, that I've simply been missing. Bed late.