Software patents, eh? These are obviously hard times for lawyers. Those lucky few that can find work must clearly be underpaid. Thank the lord for software patents then. My name was showing on this list at time of writing, but may not be there when you follow the link.

Otherwise, today I did spend some of the afternoon over at an aircraft hanger belonging to one of Mark's (M****'s dad) acquaintances. It's an aircraft hanger with about three/four separate areas requiring internet/intranet access, so we began sorting that out. Fortunately, BT had been in and installed some kind of weird ADSL modem/router thing, with three ethernet/telephony access points going back to said router. One computer was already set up with access to the router, so we just copied the network settings thereof onto the other two machines. This leaves one more access point on the router (which tested out okay), so we ran a length of ethernet cable from there to where the next socket will be placed. Something like that anyway. Of course, many more access points are required, so more hub/router/switch type things will surely be required. But yeah . . . we made a start. The light was failing and the building still requires more mains access points and lighting and what-not. That night I finished watching Serenity. Fantastic film.