The iBook has been brought from the dead thanks to some kind souls, Amedeo and Viorel. And of course there's a stack of work left from the two months hiatus I was forced to take.

Sorry for not responding to the comments and to the emails. I'll get back to the people who wrote me in a couple of days.

Here's some updates:

1. I have finally decided on a thesis subject. Details will be left for the moment, but it will be a web based application built with Drupal (of course), Python, Ruby and Solr / Lucene. Web 2.0 and all the buzzword yadda yadda.
2. I'm learning Ruby because of 1.
3. I'm investigating Solr, Twisted and EventMachine.
4. I've built a Solr php class which works with php 4 as well (the one on the Solr page is php 5 only). I might release it if the people from work allow me.
5. I've resumed work on the Simpy extension. Some first steps were taken into developing a osx dashboard widget. Right now there's latest items and a semi functional search.
6. Lazy registration for Drupal 5 is almost done.
7. I've ported memcached integration module to Drupal 4.7. I'll release it this week unless the other guy who also did this beats me to it. :)