Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early; to work. Chewed mail, did some research on JavaFX - why not ? It seems that the thought of re-writing OO.o around JavaFX has a few notable problems (behind the almost insurmountable technical challenges). JavaFX is not Free software - presumably it would have to be to base OO.o on it. Of course - Jeet announced that it will be: "We will put the core runtime out in the open over time." sadly, that doesn't appear to have happened six months on; meanwhile the already open Scene Graph has (rumour has it) been re-written, and the re-write is not public either. Of course, the promised open-sourcing of the browser plugin has been somewhat glacial too. Nevertheless - that all sounds fixable (by Sun), and it would be great to get JavaFX out into the open, but it needs fixing before any real discussion happens around exclusively basing OO.o on a proprietary technology.

Lunch. Fairly appalled by the various media outlet's editing, and excerpting of the Khameni speech, on every side - from AlJazera to Fisk, to various blogs; where is a complete, un-edited translation / transcript ? and why does that not come first, with analysis later ? much as I disagree with most of what Khameni stands for - it is precisely because I disagree with him so completely, that I would like to hear him out. Finally found something here.
Poked at nbtk, found my css speedup was causing much of the grief with new nbtk, disabled that and life is good. Nice. JP pointed me at kayak which seems like a rather usable travel site, in contrast to BCD's disaster. Booked GUADEC flights (6th-12th), hotel in Italy, and did admin variously: Clarity.