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+Saturday & Sunday in Paris with Mathieu, meeting for the first time,
+hacking on EXIF rotation, thumbnail indexing, Postgres support, and
+then Monday at Google Paris, working on different parts of the UI
+permanode thumbnail page, and genfileembed problems.