Interpret signs and catalogue a blackened tooth, a scarlet fog.

Our solution to the previous cpio problem was: it's theoretically solvable, but the solution to the locked-room puzzle in question is so ridiculously convoluted it would make an operator's head explode. So I decided, right, we'll ufsdump it instead, as we know restoring those has worked successfully in the past.

Except, of course, that I've been waiting a week for a chance at the test box to do said dump. Because one group has been using the "test" box as a production server. So I get it at 6pm this evening. Note that everyone has to be out of the building by 7pm.

Let me just say how much I love users.

In other news, OpenOffice 2.0 has FAILED ME. I'm trying to open a pile of old Word for Mac 5.1 documents and it can't make head nor tail of them and they have no intention of making it do so. Microsoft Word 2000, of course, deals with them flawlessly. I feel so unclean. (Does anyone know of an open source program that does read Word for Mac?)

Wikipedia interview with me on BBC Radio 4 "PM", this afternoon around 5:40pm.

I've been grabbed to be a last-second plug-in media whore for Wikipedia this afternoon — BBC Radio 4 PM, around 5:40pm or so. (That'll be one late lunch!) It'll be on the subject of recent changes to Wikipedia and the current storm in a teacup. If someone could please record it (or grab the RealAudio or MPEG2 stream), I would be most grateful.

Update: I'm now on at 5:35pm (ish). Better practice my soundbites!

Update 2: Well, that was surprisingly fluffy, and I actually managed to correct the common factual errors — (a) we're not blocking all anonymous contribution, only creating new articles and (b) it wasn't because of Siegenthaler. (Who Jimbo says, by the way, is a very good fellow and has worked hard for free speech, but just needs to get up to speed on the Information Super-Sewer.) It's roughly from 36'37" to 41'00" in today's programme. Copy here (1.7 MB Ogg).