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+I made the MountWatcher only use dbus if it sees a client connected to dbus
+that it knows will send mount events, or if it can start up such a client
+via dbus. (Fancy!) Otherwise it falls back to polling. This should be enough
+to support users who manually mount things -- if they have gvfs
+installed, it'll be used to detect their manual mounts, even when a desktop
+is not running, and if they don't have gvfs, they get polling.
+
+Support for KDE still needs to be added. I think it uses something other
+than gvfs. If someone with KDE can run `dbus-monitor`, plug in a drive, get
+it mounted, and send me a transcript, I can probably add it quickly.
+
+Of course, it'd also be nice to support anything similar on OSX that can
+provide mount event notifications. Not a priority though, since the polling
+code will work.
+
+---
+
+Some OS X fixes today..
+
+* Jimmy pointed out that my `getmntent` code broke the build on OSX again.
+  Sorry about that.. I keep thinking Unix portability nightmares are a 80's
+  thing, not a 2010's thing. Anyway, adapted a lot of hackish C code
+  to emulate `getmntent` on BSD systems, and it seems to work. (I actually
+  think the BSD interface to this is saner than Linux's, but I'd rather have
+  either one than both, sigh..)
+* Kqueue was blocking all the threads on OSX. This is fixed, and the
+  assistant seems to be working on OSX again.
+
+----
+
+I put together a preliminary page thanking everyone who contributed to the
+git-annex Kickstarter. [[thanks]] The wall-o-names is scary crazy humbling.
+
+----
+
+Improved `--debug` mode for the assistant, now every thread says whenever
+it's doing anything interesting, and also there are timestamps.
+
+----
+
+Had been meaning to get on with syncing to drives when they're mounted, but
+got sidetracked with the above. Maybe tomorrow. I did think through it
+in some detail as I was waking up this morning, and think I have a pretty
+good handle on it.