Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up; poked at mail etc. Extremely pleased to see Nat's pet project (SUSE Studio) get announced publicly for the first time at LinuxTag. There is some minimal screencast (NB. it takes some time to load in the popup). As you expect from the Friedman Franchise, it's extremely cool: if you build virtual appliances, you'll be wanting to sign up to have a play. Conversely if you just havn't got into this whole virtualisation thing, now is a good time to start - made easy for you by:
Chat with Alex - who has an exciting plan around KVM & Xenner. Filed my clock time set fix; dug at strange firefox / theme change crasher issue. Found, analysed & filed a nasty file-selector crasher for Federico; Lunch. Dunged out some longer term bugs, core team meeting.
Poked at a11y for tools running as root; apparently there is no good way to do this securely. Probably the best approach is for the root runnign tool to detect the user account for which it is running, and create it's sockets in /tmp/orbit-$USER for them - with relevant permissions. Currently connecting to the registryd works fine, but getting ORCA to connect back doesn't.
Watched Howl's Moving Castle again, some great artwork - admiring the castle (built by a daemon) - it's tempting to make comparisons with various pieces of software. There are some suspiciously over-engineered guns poking out everywhere, as everywhere in the fine parody of an over-militarised society.