Have you noticed how everything seems to happen at once? First of all, in the day job, my boss gets sent off on a ’special project’. Now, I am very happy for him, but that means I have to cover his job, and find someone to cover my job… all of which means that all at once life is very busy.

Meanwhile of course we are still finalising the programme for the OpenOffice.org annual conference - now just ten days away, with the inevitable last minute changes to the schedule. I must also think about how I am going to organise the MarCon meeting on Tuesday and my workshop with Fridrich on Thursday.

On top of this, we have OpenOffice.org 2.3 due “real soon now”. Since we moved to a regular release schedule, some releases are more feature-rich than others. 2.3 has turned out to be quite a good one, as the feature list shows. The Press Release for this is taking shape nicely.

As if this wasn’t enough, we’ve another PR going out tomorrow - sorry, this one’s under an embargo, so you’ll have to be patient - but I expect it to set the news wires humming. I think the final version of the PR was 3.7.4, which gives you some idea that it had a lot of rework, involving dashing home to take part in international conference calls on the landline while taking calls from the day job on the mobile

The PR will announce a great piece of news from the Community, and one which justifies a lot of the things we’ve been saying about the growing importance of OpenOffice.org and the high quality of OpenOffice.org’s software quality and component based architecture. Watch this space!

However, “all work and no play” etc., so we managed to get out today for a tramp through the southern edge of the local Pentland Hills. The weather was disappointing, and the scenery pretty dull compared to the main ranges of the hills. It looks like other walkers share our opinion, as the path shown on the OS Map has vanished, leaving us to tramp across moorland. Some old Rights of Way Society signposts mark where the path used to be. We made it as far as the Covenanter’s Grave (NT078522) and then headed back home.

Another busy week in prospect next week!

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