Last day at Agora. Cabezal begins in earnest on Monday. Wow!

Last night - for the first time in ages - we went out for a meal. To the Fat Duck; the menu was awesome. It started with some (fairly) normal ingredients and became increasingly bizarre:

• Froth of green tea and lime
  
• Grain mustard icecream with red cabbage gazpacho
  
• Butternut soup with a fricassee of morel and butternut
  
• Lasagne with (some sort of filling - I have no idea what it was!)
  
• Green bean risotto with asparagus
  
• Chocolate fondant and coconut sorbet on a bed of avocado risotto, with sweetcorn puree
  
• Petits fours: crystallized red pepper lollipop wafers; basil blancmange, candied beetroot
  
• Espresso; crystallized wafer with black olives; chocolates of American fermented pipe tobacco
  

Here's a significant thing: Tim O'Reilly interviews David Stutz about Microsoft's "shared source" and specifically the Common Language Interpreter and C#. "Stutz: We have chosen FreeBSD because of licensing issues... The terms of the licenses will be that if you're distributing it, you're distributing it for non-commercial use".

Although Stutz says "It's really not a short-term, tactical Java battle", plainly one aspect of the whole .NET initiative, including this, is to oust Java and J2EE from their current high-rolling status as the enterprise server platform of choice.

And... blogger is really good.
This blog won't replace the groovelog, but I'll likely restrain my groovelog postings to on-topic material, and sound off here about the world in general.

This is Blogger... first time I've used it, so very experimental right now.