"What would Newton do?"

State of play with the Torvalds patches: we need to allow for backwards compatibility in gconf, so if someone is running a new metacity and an old metacity with the same gconf settings, it won't all go pear-shaped. The way I plan to do it is this: we will make the existing key "action_double_click_titlebar" (a string) obsolete, and introduce a new key "actions_actionname" (a list of strings). metacity will then iterate down this list and find the first known enum value. If the string "action_actionname" is defined, it will be treated as the last entry in the list. This should keep everyone happy. I will write this code tomorrow.

Tonight {{Riordon}}'s school arranged for everyone to go rollerskating. I haven't put on a pair of rollerskates in around twenty years. It was almost like having to learn to walk all over again, and a good metaphor for a lot of other things in my life. The people around me learning were like newborn deer. {{SaraMae}} told me that the mixing desk used to be an organ when she was young, and the organist was famous and used to cut records for skating rinks all over the country. We came home and {{Fin}} made beans on toast, which was just the thing.

This may be my new favourite picture of {{Riordon}}: