Otherwise, what do you (and Nuno) think of how I've re-organized/added forking? I realize that the job runs weekly, so the performance increase isn't all that useful on production, but it's much better for testing -- unless you're on Win32.
(also, I've been reading George's book, which reminded me of forks, and I wanted to play with them (-: )
Yep, it isn't that important, but you wanted to play with fork, so its ok ;) For testing is great!
BTW, your last commit, to always redirect the output of cron jobs to junk, probably has broken the orphan notes script, because it is outputing the html, instead of writing it to the file.
Nuno