Beer == good - We're at the end of another dev cycle, and we went for beers and lunch. Perhaps not the most productive approach, but good times anyway.

Bender update - I added several features to bender last night. It was a toss up between starting a gtk+ GUI, or hacking in some jabber-accessable features. Hacking was the obvious path, and now I have a link-log bot that does most of what I need ... though not in the most attractive package. Such is life.

XD2 - I am amazed at the problems people are having installing XD2. I was lucky, I guess, the install was flawless, and I've had few hiccups since. It is rather interesting how many different approaches people have to installing something. There's something to learn from that ...