What does one do whilst waiting for said updates? Hack around on the desktop PC, of course. I now have a (pretty much pointless) installation of Horde on my domain, and a copy of PINE on pip, the SRCF’s linux box, appropriately set up to read my Google Apps email account via IMAP.

This will probably now solve all possible need-to-check-email scenarios; I fully intend to never be too far from my USB stick with Portable PuTTY, if I think I might not have access to a terminal of some description. Of course, in the majority of places, Firefox will do nicely, Thank You Very Much: the web interface is, for me, far superior to PINE (which doesn’t support things like starring messages, and deals awkwardly with labels, and the general “never delete a message” philosophy). But for those situations when bandwidth/memory/time are really short, PINE is a good thing!

Oh, and Napoleon Dynamite is, to be completely honest, not as fantastic a film as I’d been led to believe. The famous dance sequence is hilarious, but other than that, it’s pretty forgettable, and takes forever to get going (arguably, never getting beyond first gear, but then subtlety-of-plot is a valid artistic idea). Just not my kind of humour, I suppose.