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I love American holidays, because I can work largely unmolested, and my mailbox doesn’t bulge like it does on most Mondays. Of course, it meant that I couldn’t explain the concept of the passage of time to Sony’s HR people, but you really can’t win them all.

I had a nice lunch with the Imviva boys as well. They’re up to some really cool stuff, and I think it’s going to be pretty exciting. (I heard all sorts of coolness about the SPEQ investment tax credit thing in Québec. It’s woefully underrepresented on the web, as is the case with an awful lot of Québec goverment stuff, but it basically amounts to a juicy provincial tax credit on top of rrsp eligibility. What amounts to about a $10,000 investment in an eligible Québec company costs something silly like $1800 after all the tax goodness shakes out.)

On the way back from lunch — OK, it was 10 blocks out of the way — I picked up a Star Wars novel. I’ve resisted this for quite some time, but I keep hearing that the books are actually quite enjoyable, so I figured I’d find out. Updates as events warrant.

In Mozilla-land today, I played a little bit with __builtin_expect to try and squeeze a little more performance out of the rotund lizard. I’m still wrestling with my compiler choices and whatnot, but I think there might be a nice cheap win here. More later in the week, I guess.

I also spent a fair amount of time reading E3 reports, and then hooked up with some losers for a little Shadowbane fun later in the evening. A good time was had by all, except perhaps for J, who got just a wee bit dead just a wee bit fast.