Author: latepaul

This only really occurred to me whilst writing the previous entry and working out exactly how long it could be before I’m back online.

Virgin are not the cheapest ISP around but they are ok. I went with them originally because they offered a month-to-month contract when everyone else wanted a 12-month minimum. Bear in mind that in my mind I was leaving the flat in 6 months or less. Of course I’ve been leaving the flat in the next 6 months for at least 3 years, probably 4.

Anyway on moving out the plan was to get my new phoneline, transfer my existing Virgin account so I could keep my email address. Once I moved and found out the phone wasn’t going to be a quick thing, I checked with my old landlord that he had no objection to me keeping the old phone, and therefore broadband, connectied (he’s not re-renting straight-away, he’s re-furbishing). He said ok and my plan was to have moved everything over before he needs to start showing it (mid feb probably). However given the timescales I just worked out that’s not going to work out. Not only that but I’ll be paying for internet access that I don’t have.

So what I should do is contact Virgin on monday about cancelling broadband and going back to dial-up. That would keep my email account active. Although I have a sneaky suspicion that you can only dial-up from a nominated phoneline and I doubt that will be allowed to be a mobile.

So maybe I should just bite the bullet and cancel Virgin outright. I don’t think any friend has that email address. It may be the email account of various online things. I’d need to trawl through old emails and check. I think it was the official email of my online gas and electricity accounts. However since I’m with a new supplier in the new house that doesn’t matter.

The advantage of this would be I could go with BT for both phone and internet. I think that would a) work out cheaper and b) well, I’ve heard stories where all these delays and removing markers from lines etc, mysteriously get sorted quicker if you’re signing with BT rather than one of their competitors (remember BT still have to activate the line even for other ISPs).

I haven’t got a phone at the moment. A landline I mean. I still have a mobile. You see I recently moved house and…

(WHAT?? You mean Shuggie who has lived in the same flat for nearly 7 years, who hates change, who has at times wondered if he’s agoraphobic he so likes his routine and his ‘safe place’, has moved?

Yup and as you can guess there are many many things I could write about to do with the new house. But let’s talk phones.)

…and I rang BT to take over the phone line. I need to be with BT because I want to stay with Virgin as my ISP for broadband. However the previous *tenant* in my new house was with a different provider – Bulldog – and haven’t cancelled their account. Did I mention this is now MY house? as in I bought it? Anyway the only contact information I have is an address for the previous *owner*. I have no address for the previous tenant and no phone number for anyone. Just after Christmas I forwarded a bunch of mail via previous owner with a letter asking them to a) give me the forwarding address for the ex-tenant and b) ask the ex-tenant to cancel their phone account.So far I’ve had no response.

By the way, the phone has a dial tone but if you ring anywhere it tells you that the line is prohibited from making outgoing calls except to Bulldog Customer Service. I tried ringing that – using the phoneline. My logic was that hopefully they could tell that I was using that line and possibly allow me to cancel the account. Unfortunately it rings, takes you through the menu options and then cuts off.

What I’ve done instead is to ring BT a couple of times – since they can check whether the “marker” is still on the line. I was going to write another letter but haven’t done so yet. Anyway the couple of times I’ve called BT the account was still there.

So today I rang BT again and asked them if this could just go on and on and what could I do? They advised me to speak to Bulldog as they claim that they cannot do anything at all, regardless of how long it goes on if Bulldog own the line.

So I rang Bulldog. There was no menu option for my situation (or even an “everything else”) so I just choose the first one. I spoke to a gentleman with an Indian accent who informed me that his system was down and could only give general advice. I explained my situation and he told me there was nothing he could do while his systems were down and I should ring back in 15 minutes or tomorrow.

“But you can do something if the system comes back?” I asked sceptically.

“Yes.”

I thanked him and rang off. I dutifully rang back 13 minutes later and this time spoke to an Indian-accented lady (looks like Bulldog’s callcentre is not in the UK). I explained my situation and by now the system was indeed back up. She took my details and gave me a fax number. She told me I need to Fax a copy of a proof of ownership of my house to the number and this will start the “Gone Away” process which will lead to the cancelling of the account and me being able to take it over. She told me to include a short covering letter and what to put into it. She was very helpful.

The only problem is that the “Gone Away” process takes time – 15 working days from the day they receive my fax (which is looking like Monday now). 3 weeks! Add to that the 7 working days BT quoted for a new line. Add to that the 15 working days that Virgin quote to transfer an ADSL connection (and I’ve heard horror stories of it being much much longer) and it could be 2 months before I’m back online.

I’m hoping some of these times are maximums (or averages) and it could be shorter. Though I suspect the “Gone Away” one might be fixed. I guess in that 15 days they’ll try to contact the ex-tenant.

All of which means I may look into getting my mobile sorted for modem access. I’ve found it can do GPRS (which is dial-up equivalent speeds) previously it was only doing whatever the one before GPRS is called (which was ancient dial-up speeds v.slow but fast enough for web browsing if you mainly read text sites). I’ve connected the phone to the laptop, I’ve successfully dialed. I’ve even been able to browse O2’s website using it. But not any others. Which makes me think I need to call them and get them to ‘switch me on’

I’ve got a new laptop and I’ve been uploading my CD collection into a fresh install of iTunes,which is taking a while. It’s also causing me to listen to some songs I haven’t listened to in years. Some I haven’t listened to at all (tracks on albums I hardly played). Some Christian music, which obviously I don’t listen to much.

One for instance was a compilation I made for M. the first Christmas I knew her. It was full of quite depressing songs.

Another was a Martyn Joseph album I bought but never played. I just heard a beautiful song called ‘Have An Angel Walk With Her’ which was pretty – but more it reminded me of an old album of his I used to listen to when I was a student. Listen to and feel sad.

I got to thinking about church and faith. There is something which nourishes there. I’ve heard people in sacramentalist churches talk about Communion that way. I never had that but there was something – in worship, prayer, maybe in rolling around the floor (yes I went to one of those churches) – something that was like refueling. Life would wear me down, my enthusiasm, energy, optimism would decline, and I’d get a boost from that. OK sometimes I felt like I didn’t. But it’s something I definately haven’t felt for a very long time.

I’m missing something.

So this was the second or third night that I’ve tried this staying late at work and writing thing, and arguably the first when I actually wrote fiction. It was hard work. I wrote an outline of an idea I had for a story, got interrupted and then actually tried to start writing a second, different story. The time dragged and what I was writing wasn’t that great. For a while I just sat there staring at the screen, waiting the appointed time for the revelation.* Sadly, tonight at least, it never came.

See, because in the past I’ve tended to give up easily, and because I feel I’m good at spotting problems and fixes in a draft – because of this I’ve tended to concentrate on just getting it down. Get a first draft, no matter how bad, written and then edit. But actually that’s not much fun if I can see I’m producing crap. It’s not the fun I have when I ramble in this blog and the ideas are flowing, like yesterday with the footnotes. OK, so call it was it is, I was goofing off and it won’t produce anything worth re-writing, but there are nuggets (the lap of luxury thing) and I enjoyed it.

This was just hard. But the books all say the same thing: create a routine and stick to it. Write even if you think it’s rubbish. Inspiration hits a moving target it seems.

In fact I did have some fun with the writing today. On my daily walk into town I thought about some of the story ideas I’ve had for a while, and a brand new shiny one for an AFO challenge. The ideas were buzzing and I was excited.

When I came to write it, it was a different story. OK, lovers of irony prepare for a feast. My story, my brand new, I’m so excited to be getting inspired again, story is called ‘Turd’.

That’s right ‘TURD’

And what had seemed so clever and funny when I had the germ of non-specific idea in my head on the way back from lunch, turned out to be disappointed when I simply tried to ‘get it down’. It did in fact just lie there on the screen like a…

Well you get the idea.

Still I’m writing and that can’t be all bad.

(*explanation of the title: back when I was a student, I was also something of a charismatic evangelical Christian, as was my friend Alan. Alan and I had a practice of thinking up a random Bible reference, and looking it up to see if it was profoundly speaking to us. This was semi-tongue-in-cheek. Tongue-in-cheek because it almost never produced anything sensible. Semi- because if it ever had come up with something profound I think we’d both have claimed it was God speaking.

Anyway, one time it did work, sort of.

I can’t remember the reference and I can’t be bothered to look it up, but it was from one of the minor prophets and it said something like ‘The revelation awaits the appointed time, wait for it and it will surely come’.

This sounded suitably profound but was a bit non-specific. Alan took it to mean that we should stay up until 2am at which point one of us would have a revelation of some kind. We tried this. We had a laugh, a good chat. I don’t recall any revelation.)

(new entry because I really couldn’t do another footnote*)

I did try asking my neighbour to keep quiet, turn the music down etc. It worked the first two or three times. But then she got fed up with me. I haven’t felt able to face her since. And since I’ve been officially “moving any time now” for at least the last 3 years, I didn’t see the point in a lot of conflict.

But as I said, the flat, a whole other nightmare.

(*It’s not so much the number of footnotes but the repetition of the asterisk** that looks wierd after a while)

(**A long time ago a friend of mine made an album called “The Celebration of the Azimuth”, I like to think of “The Repetition of the Asterisk” as one of his later works)

It’s a fatal mistake for me to ever tell someone of my plans. It invariably means it’ll be something I fail to do and then feel embarrassed about. Whether it’s “I’m going to learn a musical instrument” or “I’m going to be in bed before X from now on”.

This time it was “I’m going to use the time I stay late at work to write”. Spoken confidently to M. a few days ago.

See, several things in my life have conspired to make me a habitual late-stayer at work:

o My flat is untidy and depressing. A much bigger topic. But remember all the “tidying for the gasman” stuff? Not just a metaphor. Hence, time spent away from flat is often nicer.

o My neighbour is noisy. My upstairs neighbour makes a lot of noise. Or that is she makes what is probably a reasonable amount of noise, but given that I can hear her footsteps when she’s simply walking around I think the problem is not so much her as the acoustics and thinness of my ceiling/her floors. Whatever. I hear lots of noise when she’s in and it’s annoying. (So just to recap – the flat untidy and noisy, generally not a restful place to be. Work on the other hand is quiet and I have the internet.)

o I often start work late. The observant among you, which I know is none, could have put together a rough pattern of my lifestyle based on this blog. It includes often quite long conversations with M. at the end of (nearly every) day. Since we both have lives – well she has, I fake one – these conversations often start late and stretch into the early hours. Now I can offset this to some extent because my hours at work are somewhat flexible. Officially they’re 9-5:30. Unofficially, no-one seems to mind that I often arrive later because I nearly always stay later*.

o Im often tired. Even with some late-to-work offsetting the late nights catch up with me. This often leads to a late afternoon “I’ll go home as soon as I can be bothered to drag myself up from this chair” lethargy**.

So upto now I’m mostly just read stuff on the internet. SoF, various blogs etc. However it occurred to me I could use the time to write. And if you check my posting times lately that’ll bear that out. However I’ve written blogs entries and forum postings, but not much of my own fiction***. Hence the idea. Hence the statement to M. Hence the new resolve. Hence the embarrassing reality.

But I’m not giving up, just recognising, with a wry**** smile, that I haven’t kept to what I said.

I also gee-ed myself up this lunchtime with some good ideas to get my life more on the track I want it to be. I came back to the office inspired. I wrote up a list of things to do and things to keep in mind. A few of them were to do with writing (at least one was to do with finding somewhere else to live). I even just wrote a list of ideas/projects in my Other Blog. Then I wrote about 200 words of free-association stuff just to get me writing something. Perhaps unsurprisingling it was a mixture of stuff I’d been thinking about (my mum’s birthday) and stuff I’ve been reading (Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith). It hasn’t, so far anyway, lead to ideas about what else to write.

So to fill in the time (otherwise I’d have to go home to the mess and the neighbour) I’m writing here. Writing to avoid writing.

Could be worse. Ho, and as it goes, hum.

(*OK, so about now some smart-alec has spotted the flaw in my logic. If I stay later to make up for coming in later, shouldn’t the extra time be spent working and not reading the web or writing? Two answers to that 1) well the inertia of lethargy***** means I stay later than I need to make up for and 2) who are you anyway? my boss? give a guy a break!)

(**OK, OK! A guy can have two flaws in his logic can’t he? So feeling tired and lethargic doesn’t exactly lend itself to being productive writing wise – but see I have a plan for that too. You thought the “I’ll go to bed before X” was just an example didn’t you? )

(***Unless you consider this blog a fiction. I guess it is. At least in the sense that all recollection is inherently unreliable and I’m not even trying to be impartial. I am therefore constructing a version of a narrative which only tangentially bears relation to what I euphemistically call my “real life”******)

(****but not terse, that would be weird)

(*****But if you’re lethargic, won’t…? Hang on we did this one already. Look quit with the footnotes. It’s too confusing.)

(******See I can make it sound quite interesting but it’s still work avoidance. This rambling is all well and good but it ain’t getting my best-selling novel, on which I can retire to a lap of luxury*******, written)

(*******Actually I think I’d like to retire to the lap of M. She can have all the money and keep me in the luxury of her lap.)

So enough with the Pratchettesque footnotes********. Somewhere there’s an ASDA ready meal with my name on it and my neighbour might just have settled down enough for me to consider watching a bit of TV.

(********They are kind of addictive though.)

(The problem with yet another blog is the pressure to post. Actually that may be a good thing.)

So I spent a pleasant evening last night with M. We had a meal out in London, bumped into a Bollywood film being made in Trafalgar Square and walked around a lot looking for a place to have coffee. (Did you know there are parts of London that shut down at around 10pm. That just seems wrong somehow.)

But this is not about any of that. I did have a conversation with M. about what it is about. I told her she was getting a world-exclusive sneak preview of my next blog entry.

Naturally she was deeply impressed.

On Monday (Bank Holiday) I watched Love Actually again. I think it’s only the second time I’ve watched it. I bought the DVD, confident that the creator of Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral would have something fun for a romcom addict like me. I was a little under-whelmed. If you don’t already know, Love Actually follows about 8 or 9 loosely connected love stories happening near Christmas in London. That’s probably 5 or 6 too many for me. At least that was my conclusion when I first watched it. Life finds me (possibly temporarily) more cynical about love at the moment (so why was I watching? good question. dunno) and I think for once I agreed with a lot of Curtis’ other critics, that it’s all a little too saccharine.

But this isn’t even really about my view of the film either. In the DVD extras Curtis recounts how he came up with the idea for the film. He said that it takes him about 3 years to complete a film project and that he generally wrote romcoms but wanted to do other stuff too. Given that he had several ideas for romcoms he realised that if they all took 3 years he’d possibly spend the rest of his life doing only that so he wondered about combining all the stories in one film.

The reason this caught my attention was because there’s one story in particular, which sums up the romcom, certainly the Curtis romcom. An early twenties bloke is fed up with his lack of success in getting a woman. He declares to his friend that he’ll go to America where his ‘cute’ British accent will assure him lots of dates. His friend tells him he’s crazy. He goes to America – to Wisconsin – walks into the first random bar he finds and meets 4 (actually 5) beautiful, friendly women who all love his accent. They invite him home to their tiny appartment where they all have to share a bed (cos the apartment’s so small) where they all get naked (cos they are so poor they can’t afford clothes).

Now obviously this is not in the slightest to be taken seriously, but look at the structure: attractive, but slightly nerdish (i.e. ‘everyman’), guy desires love. There’s an obstacle (he’s not in America). He makes a grand bold romantic gesture (he goes to America). Result: everything works out and he gets the girl(s) (who’s implausibly more beautiful than someone who would go for him in real life would be). It’s like a compressed version of an awful lot of romcoms. An awful lot of awful romcoms especially.

It’s that thing I talked about in my review of The Girl in the Cafe – making the implausible feel possible in order to create a feel-good movie. However here the compression of the story simply highlights the implausibility so Curtis makes the very implausibility his vehicle for humour (Douglas Adams would be proud*). Which works but also shows up the strings in the puppet theatre (or something like that with a less hackneyed metaphor).

And I think that that trade-off – swapping plausibility for humour – is a dangerous one to make in a romcom. There are always funny movies but to make a great romcom we’ve got to believe in the happy ending and to do that we have to believe in the happy ending.

Maybe that’s why I like his other movies better. They give more time to one story and that’s more time to fool me into believing.

(*do I have to explain that reference? Check my blog I think I’ve mentioned it before.)

I’ve just created a new blog – exclusively for writing (and possibly discussions of writing). It’s my “Wry Terse”* blog and it’s here.

This is actually now my fourth blog. My original was on Blogger and used some variation on the Shuggie name. I cannot now remember and the email address under which I registered no longer exists. A shame, there were posts on there I’d enjoy reading again. A quite amusing one on nursing a hangover if I recall.

My second blog was this one. I started it because I heard that LiveJournal have “communities”. The Buffy usenet newsgroup I used to inhabit was dwindling and one of the participants said most of his Buffy-related discussion was on LiveJournal. I’ve seen that happen but it hasn’t happened to me. I guess I didn’t publicize my blog very well or make it comment-worthy. Still working on that one. So it’s very much a blog and not a focus for discussion. Still I have SoF and the newsgroups for that.

Blog the third was one I didn’t explicitly sign up for. I signed up for the new incarnation of the Church of Fools, St. Pixels, and their new site gives every user a blog. I posted on it a few times, mostly about my spiritual state and my experiences with the CoF. Haven’t posted there for a while. It’s ok but I never really fit in that community (there actually is one there) and the site, which was built with bespoke tools, is a bit rough and ready. It’s here if you want to see.

So now we have Wry Terse, a place to stick stuff I write where people can comment on it. I’m on a writer’s sub-board on SoF and someone there uses a blog for her novel. Struck me as a very good idea.

This is getting like email addresses. I have about five of those (only 3 that are really active I s’pose).

Blog Five, if it even comes into being will be the blog of a made-up character, written in real-time, though probably not in relation to current events. We’ll see. 4 blogs is enough for now.

(*yes I know, but I needed a name)

Wow. Look at how many words it took me to tell a relatively simple story. Well, ok, it was a simple story about a complicated upgrade. The complexity was the point.

Still I’m left feeling that I could have written a more readable entry by writing all that and then editting it afterwards. Given that it took probably the best part of 4 hours to write those two posts, it’s a little dis-spiriting. I mean this is not supposed to be proper writing per se, it’s supposed to be quick’n’dirty blogging, getting the opinions down quickly. If the quick’n’dirty is slow and needs editting to be readable I guess it means I need to spend more time on writing than I currently am.

Which is fine. Just sobering.

Where were we? Oh yes:

“So… long and short of it is: I want to do something, but the program doesn’t do it. I’m stuffed aren’t I?”

The thing about open source is that there’s usually a later version than the stable one. There may be more than one. Often there’s “stable”, “testing” and “CVS” (or “SVN”) – where the later isn’t a packaged version but access to the latest source in the source code repository system. So often on help fora etc you’ll see developers say things like “Oh yes that’s a bug. It’s fixed in the CVS version.” If you’re a hapless user without the ability to compile the latest CVS then it’s a bit of a show-stopper unless you can find someone to compile it for you.

Now I’m not quite in that boat. I know enough C to get by and enough C++ to be able to read it. I know how to compile. So I thought I’d have a go at the latest SVN version, hoping that the changes I needed were in there. Unfortunately the compilation instructions are rather terse and include this sentence:

“Trunk SVN admin directory needs QT4, so make sure you’ll downgrade kde 3.5 admin directory”

What follows is svn syntax to check out the relevant code from the repository. Now I must admit to misreading this. If the svn command had worked on my system – it didn’t I suspect SVN uses a blocked port on my work’s network – then I’d have probably not have made the mistake I did. However I read the above as meaning “The version of kmobiletools from SVN needs QT4”. I was nervous about this but I had a google around and found out that it was possible to have 2 non-conflicting versions on QT on a machine. So I downloaded the source to the latest QT 4.x and built it. I installed it in a directory where it wasn’t going to get picked up accidentally by my existing KDE stuff and tried to compile kmobiletools.

I kept getting an error from configure about QT:

configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!

This confused me because I was sure I needed QT4. I mustn’t have installed it with thread support. So I checked the compilation of QT – but I couldn’t find an option to enable/disable threading (possibly this isn’t possible now. Possibly it’s always threaded now).

More curiously configure worked ok when I didn’t try to point it at the QT4 files. But then the compile failed. Looking back the penny really should have dropped at this point but instead I persisted. I tried different combinations of configure options. I tried building on a Suse 10.1 vmware VM. It just didn’t work.

I should probably point out that during this process I’d “given up” a couple of times. But I kept coming back to it.

Anyway. The compile error, if I configured using the default QT3.3 were:

smspart.cpp:155: error: `setDisabled' undeclared (first use this function)

I figured I just wasn’t picking up the right version of some header file. It doesn’t help that we’re not only talking about QT but KDE libraries and header files too. As I think I said, Suse 9.3 had KDE 3.4. Now to cut to the chase, and avoid an installment 3, I’ll tell you what’s wrong here. Line 155 of smspart.cpp contains reference to copy->setDisabled where copy is defined as a KAction. I finally googled for this and found that this attribute of KAction only exists in KDE 3.5 and upward. So it wasn’t my version of QT that was wrong it was my version of KDE. So

“Trunk SVN admin directory needs QT4, so make sure you’ll downgrade kde 3.5 admin directory”

meant more or less the opposite to what I’d read it to mean. It means something like “Since KDE admin in KDE 3.5 needs QT4 and we don’t we need to downgrade that particular directory to one that’ll use QT3”.

So basically, I now know – I think – how to build kmobiletools. I’d need to

– download and build enough of KDE 3.5 to allow the building of kmobiletools.

Or in other words – the “k” is not there for nothing.

Now back in the day, I compiled the whole of KDE from scratch. (KDE 1.something) However I didn’t really fancy doing that. I fancied even less trying to pick apart which bits of KDE I need. Not to mention that I already have KDE installed. Was I going to uninstall it? Try to have an alternate KDE 3.5 alongside my 3.4 – that seems trickier than having QT4 alongside QT3. I realised that if I was going to do anything it would be:

1. uninstall kde 3.4
2. build and install kde 3.5 – just the base and libraries at first
3. attempt to build kmobiletools from SVN
4. if 3. fails, install and build a bit more of KDE 3.5 and repeat

This is somewhat tedious – but knowing me I’d probably go for it except that this is my work machine and I don’t want to mess it up too much. If I have to go back to stock 9.3 and restore from a backup my data it’ll be even more tedious.

And all this in the mere hope that it’d work better with my phone.

Ok I’ve told this out of order slightly. I discovered that there’s two kmobiletools websites. The original one, that I was looking at, and the new one, which was more up to date. The new one had the same howto on building from SVN but it also had a packaged version of source for 0.5beta1 – i.e. a new version which should compile. I tried again and failed with the same setDisabled error. It was actually at this point I discovered that I needed KDE 3.5 and not QT4 etc. However what was also on the new website was an ISO image for a live CD that had everything you need to run kmobiletools 05beta1 from.

Now this is a really good idea. It means I can download it, burn it and get to see it running with my phone without doing anything drastic – like the plan above. So I did. I ‘wasted’ a CD-R – but what’s that compared to the waste of my time?

Well the results were less than inspiring. Oh first of all the live CD uses Slax, which I like but which doesn’t work with my LCD display. I actually plugged in a CRT monitor from another machine because I wasn’t going to look into that as well. The new 0.5beta1 works better with my phone in that I could unplug and replug without a reboot (though I think that’s partly a kernel issue so I’d need a kernel upgrade too). It’s a redesign with an interface that looks a bit like a webpage. I didn’t like it much but it’s jsut aesthetics. They’ve separated out the outgoing from the incoming so I wouldn’t see the ‘conversation’ together, I’d have to keep clicking between the two lists. Which is moot because I still can’t store-and-send like I’d need to.

So after all that it doesn’t really fix the things I really want fixed.

Conclusion

So, I titled this originally, “What I hate about Linux”. What do I hate about this? I guess it’s the hassle involved in resolving dependencies that are so entwined in your system that what seems like a small change (new version of a program), becomes a big exercise. I guess I sort of feel like this stuff doesn’t happen so much on Windows – is that true/fair?

I guess the main difference is that I’d be downloading a pre-compiled binary. I’d only be downloading a new version if one had been compiled. Each version would likely have bigger changes and there’d likely be longer gaps between the releases. I might also be paying money.

So if “WinMobiletools” 1.0 didn’t work I’d probably not have a testing/svn/beta version to try. And it’s possible that by the time 2.0 was released, if it co-incided with a new release of Windows, I wouldn’t be able to use it without upgrading that too.

Still none of that changes the perception that it’s more hassle.

Having said all that kmobiletools 0.4.3.3 does 85% of the job I want/need it to do and the other 15% is mostly annoyance. I am very grateful to the people that have written it, figured out all the awkward, fiddly, complicated protocol stuff and produced something that’s eminently useful.