Still haven’t rented out the spare room – starting to look quite dicey as to whether we will before the end of our contract. Never mind eh?
Stuck on work atm. Completely. A coursework to be handed in at 5pm today, another tomorrow at 5pm, and another on Friday at 5pm. And I’ve done nothing on any of them. Quite disconcerting. Ah well.
Have been trying to get “george” – my “new” SPARC IPX, to run BIND 9.1.0, which has proved to be difficult. Turns out (Mike just told me) that the problem I was having was that BIND 9.1.0 requires a default value in some of its config files, which the old version didn’t require. Hence the new version breaking.
Life is depressing.
Went to the Union on Friday night though, which was a blessing. I saw Kris, Kieran, and Brad there, along with the friends I went with initially (Pete et al.). Pete & friends left early, so I hung around for a bit chatting to Kris & Brad for a while. A most welcome chance to occupy the mind with something other than depressing thoughts.
My Grandfather(paternal side of the family) passed away last weekend, so we went to the funeral yesterday. Hope you have a good time wherever you’ve gone to, G’pa.
On a more cheerful subject, I did manage to hand in a couple of courseworks on time last week, which was good.
etc. etc. etc. I won’t bore you anymore. Someone once said “It’s all in the timing.”
And so I’ll post again 🙂
Nothing amazing going on still, but uni continues to be a lot of work.
Will be doing a 6 month placement with IBM starting in Easter – promises to be a really good job.
Um. Another Valentine’s without cards, but I’m getting used to it now 🙂
I’m off on holiday to Wales on Saturday – yay! Almost a week of pure relaxation 🙂
On Thursday however I drive from Wales to London. Then London to Badshot Lea on Friday. Then back to London on Sunday. Then up to Harrogate on Monday. Erk.
So quite a drive. This is all in aid of Shotgun LAN 10, which we’re holding in Badshot Lea this time – brill new venue.
So preparations are continuing apace – bungle and george are getting the reformat treatment, and a new server is being constructed from odd bits and pieces I’ve got lying around 🙂
This one should be really good. Whilst we don’t have as many attendees as we’d like (wrong time of year), it allows us to test out the new venue and all the new kit without too many consequences if something goes wrong. Which is good.
Anyway, back to work. Laters all.
Need to leave for Paddington station in about 50 minutes. Taking the train to Reading, then driving up to Harrogate with Kim and my father. Should be nice.
Buckingham Palace, whilst very nice, was a little wet. Very wet in fact. Not very good for a garden party. Never mind eh?
I was given my award by Alan Titchmarsh, which was interesting. Prince Philip didn’t actually give out any awards, but he joined (along with Prince Edward) the garden party at about 4pm. About the time I left, because it was a little wet (did I mention that before?). There were 8500 guests (about 2800 awards then). Quite a few people in other words.
Many HGS people there, such as Robert Spackman, Katie Jackson, Rosamund Elliott, Jenny Scott-Smith and Gemma Ingle, to mention a few. Was nice to see some of them again, even if I didn’t know them very well…
Bah. Need to do some more work before I slide out early. Bye all.
