Spending most of my time working on our ITC307 project, and doing assignments due early next term.
Being able to find a bit of time now, i have been keeping up with reading, came across phpinsider.com, which has a dedicated Smarty forum. Spent a while looking to see if anyone else has been using smarty for generating SQL queries. There were a few mentions, but as far as i could tell, nothing on the scale of what we were using.
Have had gaim connected to irc.au.freenode.net for the last few days, to the tapestry, debian, and smarty channels, just watching whats going on, thought i might learn something, but nothing major yet, only a few small things.

Installed beagle and got it working. Have been interested in the idea ever since i read about a concept of dashboard. To be really useful i need to set it to index all the data on my server and other HDD, rather than just my home folder.

Well, long time. Finished assignments, and end of term.
Spent a few days working with tapestry, trying to write a library. Seeing as there's little documentation it was more or less trial and error, but got it working in the end. have an eclipse environment set up for developing it. Also wrote a tapestry filter to log requests to a file. Should implement it soon, as not all pages are being logged since the installation of new things such as this blog.
Have installed Debian on my main machine, got it dual booting with windows (no hassle), what has been a hassle is getting gaim 1.5, and newer versions of thunderbird and firefox. added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

I manually installed thunderbird from their website, and after changing sources.list thunderbird broke. updated thunderbird from synaptic, and worked fine.

Spent hours trying to get thunderbird working in the first place. I have a thunderbird profile of about 1Gb, which i didn't want to loose. Ended up having to manually editing prefs.js to update all the paths from my windows setup. After that, and upgrading thunderbird it seems to be working fine, except the fact i am unable to access postoffice.csu.edu.au from this IP address. Its getting rather annoying.

Been going back through the histories music-wise. Found a stack of albums at leading edge, Gene Pitney, Hank Williams, Bee Gees, Carpenters, and Beach Boys. Also found a very nice album from Sydney musician Lior. Very impressed with Gene Pitney, and was already fans of Carpenters and Bee Gees. Also got my hands on Motown Remixed, which I saw advertised in Sain magazine (for Sanity Music). Eleanor and her father are big fans of motown artists, and although i know some of the songs on the album, i don't know them well enough to compare them to the originals. Also finally got a Jackson 5 album (only took me 2 years), and loving it.