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‘Developer Kit’ as he is known (a kit is a young fox), is part of a new marketing campaign by Mozilla – and so far he seems to be a success.

You can find more info about Kit at the Mozilla Developer Center.

The student loans people caught up with me today, and so I am now £41/month worse off. Bastards.

I did however finish my 6-month new-starter probation period at work today, and I still have job to go to on Monday, so that’s kinda nice…

It’s out, it’s shiny and it’s from a new company.

And the XML handling has been rewritten to comply with my previous gripes. However, at the same time, the schema appears to have changed substantially, so I’ll have to investigate what’s changed and make the necessary changes to the Companion.

Fun times…

Last night, I had to say goodbye to Tracy, who is heading off back home to South Africa.

I may have only known her for 5 1/2 months, but I am going to miss her immensely – she’s one of those rare people who manage to effortlessly combine smart, sexy and sassy whilst being tremendous fun to be around. It’s a cliché I know, but I genuinely feel that my life is richer for knowing her. I’m actually a little teary-eyed writing this.

Tracy – I wish you all the best (and come back soon!)

One of my colleagues (Tracy) is leaving for South Africa shortly, so some of us went out on Thursday for ‘a farewell drink’ (although she’s not quite gone yet). My memory is somewhat hazy, so I’ve partially reconstructed the night with some help from some photos that probably shouldn’t ever be made public…

17:00 – Stop work
17:05 – Leave work
17:25 – Arrive 06 St. Chad’s Place (which is quite nice actually – but busy)
17:55 – The first 2 bottles of wine have gone
18:30 – My legs refuse to take me on a straight-line path to the loo.
18:45 – Food arrives (well, 4 bags of crisps).
??:?? – (lots of photos, no idea what happened)
20:45 – More food (2 massive bowls of chips, which are polished off in about 5 mins)
21:20 – Left St Chad’s, and moved on to the Big Chill. I remember having trouble walking the short distance between them.
21:30 – Decided I’d better start drinking a bit less, or I’d never make it home. Had a coke, and watched some drunken dancing by my colleagues.
21:50 – Started drinking again (onto Vodka and Coke)
22:10 – More dancing (including me this time)
??:?? – (I know we stopped dancing, and sat down for a bit. Then we started dancing again)
23:30 – Started on my way home (cos I don’t live in London like some people…)
01:30 – Got home.
01:45 – Went to bed.

06:45 – My alarm went off…
07:45 – Pondered the ethics of vomiting on a packed commuter train. Decided it would just be plain rude. Also shameful and embarrassing.
08:05 – Came out of Liverpool St. toilets feeling much better.

From what I can remember, it was an excellent night out. But ugh.