I hate surprises like this... Without anybody's knowledge (until today that is), Apple has been quietly tracking anybody with an iPhone with iOS4 (released last year June). On the phone is a database containing detailed location information. Use this app to see where you've been. Here is my last 2-3 months' activities...

Sunshine at 10C
Rain
Thunder and lighting
Snow covering roofs and ground
Rain
Sunshine

all in the course of 30 minutes...

and then hail 2 hours later!

Check this out... (click the image for details)

Make/Model: Ford Mustang GT Cabriolet Manual 2011
Colour: Black
New?: Demo, had 7300km on the clock
Engine: 5.0l V8
Power/Torque: 307kW (412 BHP) @ 6500 rpm / 529Nm (390 lb-ft) @ 3500 rpm
Average Fuel Consumption: 7.6 - 13.0 l/100 km (Highway - City) 10 - 17 L/100km (Highway - City)
Performance: 0-100km/h in 4.8s, 250 km/h top speed (governor limited).
Owned: April 2011 - Jul 2013

Notes:
This is not exactly the car I was eyeing, but it seemed to be the better choice. I have now all I had in my Mustang V6, minus the glass roof, plus a cabriolet plus a navigation system plus HUGE boost in performance. Some pictures...

So you try to compress 8.5GB worth of source code and libraries to a 4.5GB tbz2 tarball, only to discover running:

tar -jcvpf dev20110411.tbz2 dev

takes about 30 minutes to complete, on a Mac Pro with 8 cores Xeon 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM and a new 2TB 7200rpm WD Caviar Black HDD. The problem is explained below...