Hobbit

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Ok, well things have kind of settled down here a bit. My car is fixed (rotor arm replaced – fascinating ;)) I’ve made some good progress at work, though I have now have a whole bunch of new things to get around to, but hey it ain’t gonna happen for a week or so cos I got a week off 🙂

The house is kind of sorted, we have pretty much everything we need (yes, including a cheesegrater and a garlic press – what the hell was I on about?) and I get paid next week. I’m gonna spend next week straightening up my home office, the spare room, the shed and bits of the kitchen which are the only parts of the new house that are completely untouched by the hand of organisation.

My plans for after I get the office arranged are to get on with learning some Python, PyGTK, PHP and playing with Xen, Qemu and my Alpha Server which was given to me by Sparkes. I also want to get my teeth into the LPI syllabus, which I’ve been meaning to do for the last 2 years or so but never really gotten down to, but now I’ve decided it’s about time I get serious about it.

LUG Radio Season 3 has finally begun after what seems like a lifetime of waiting and episodes 1 and 2 of the new season are already out, plus planning for LUG Radio Live 2006 is already under way.

So I think thats about all for now. Incidentally if anyone has any advice on booting a Digital Alpha Server 800 5/400 from a Debian Woody Alpha installation CDROM, then I will be listening, my 2 attempts have been futile so far.

No, sadly this post isn’t going to be either profound or about how the world would a better place if I were in charge or anything. It’s going to be a little bit more self-congratulatory than that.

I’ve said before that it never ceases to amaze what people search for that brings up hits for my website. I was checking my apache stats again and the second biggest search hit that led to people to browse to my website was, after my name of course, “Windows is shit”.

That made me laugh a little so I did a quick check and I’m the top hit on Google for “Windows is Shit”.

Wow. That makes me really important 🙂 and possibly in danger of litigation…

Yeah I know and so do you. I blew my bandwidth limit. I don’t know how or why, but, and I think I said this last time, I’ve changed spam filtering software and I think the difference between the 2 on an implementation level is that the new one takes the whole spam comment and stores it in a database while the old one used to just ignore it as soon as it recognised it as spam.

In other news, I moved house last weekend, I’ve spent all week getting the house straightened up and we’re having my birthday party/moving in party this Saturday night. If for any reason you’re invited and haven’t got back to you about how to get there, give me a call or an email. By the end of today we should have a new washing machine, working radiators and a spare room. That just leaves my pit (aka office), the TV aerial and the telephone cables to attend to.

I thought my car was giving up the ghost this week but it turns out it was just in desperate need of some oil. It’s been spluttering for a while now and I knew I needed some oil but I didn’t know what type. Finally I found out, bought some oil, put it in last night and it drives fine this morning. Thought I was heading for an expensive fix-up job there. In a shocking discovery yesterday, I realised I have just about exactly the right amount of money to pay all of the bills and buy food for the rest of the month and pretty much nothing else at all. I might not even be able to afford that. Think we might be eating 9 pence beans for the rest of the month. This once again means that unless you’re paying there’s no point in inviting me anywhere 🙁

I remember reading a blog post somewhere, I don’t know where exactly, where the writer moaned about people droning on about the miniutae of their miserable lives and I agreed with him, now here I am writing one of those posts.