With a bunch of scheduled (for Christmas) maintenance tasks mostly completed, and with the datacentre migration still impending, we're finally focusing on EPO publications (not mere memes; it's slow news at the EPO albeit this new page shows management of the EPO 'going rogue'; it's nowadays breaking the law, the EPC, using a mere "decision" by the executive branch). We ask for readers' patience because although it may seem like we're not doing much lately (except videos and relatively short articles) we've actually been very busy working on other sorts of tasks (not visually obvious like the banner at the top of the blog or the new (simplified) front page). This morning, for example (it's only 4AM), hours were spent communicating privately with key people. We have some exciting things lurking over the horizon and rushing them through would be counterproductive if not highly risky to sources. To the best of our ability (taking risk into account) we reveal information about operations in our IRC logs. Sometimes we redact a bit. ⬆