So I got an HSDPA 3.5G modem for the boat, and I can finally use my G5 again for OSM stuff. Consequently I have spent the last n hours trying to install the Rails port on OS X 10.3 - and, hoorah hoorah, finally succeeding. Much fun. (Incidentally, I now want to kill the author of RMagick.)

More usefully - I can now do some editing in the evenings! I've done one chunk of Burton tonight and will keep ploughing through the notes I'd already taken.