For all of my ‘fans’ out there, here’s the update you’ve been bemoaning the absence of.

Firstly, I have the week off, so a week of sleeping, getting bored and putting up all of the things that have been lying around since I moved in is afoot. I’m also booked in for some snowboarding this week and again at the end of the month, which is the cause of this month’s poverty.

I’m also saving for a big holiday sometime between summer and autumn, somewhere as close to paradise as possible. I think I’m going to need a new car this year too. I’m passed the stage where I’m learning to drive for real and the risk of an accident has passed and also because I travel 50 miles per day at ~70mph, I’m going to need something which is going to continue to be reliable. My car is just starting to get cranky now and it’s pretty old. After clearing the credit cards and a holiday, a car is the next important thing. I’d really like a BMW Mini Cooper, but they appear to start at £8,000 second hand so that’s unlikely 🙁

On a geeky note, I have been setting up the mail for my domains which is proving to be a slow process, even though I know what I’m doing. I’m having trouble finding suitable Courier-IMAP, Courier-POP3, Courier-Authlib and Exim-MySQL RPMs for FC4. I have built them from source before, but the idea with this attempt is to try to stay within the package management system. Looks like I might be back on Debian and have to host my mail at home.

This week I plan to play with Xen at last. It looks like good fun (to a geek) and could maybe make my life easier on a number of counts at work. I may also try to work out whether Linux software RAID is actually any good and whether there are any hardware ATA RAID controllers supported by Linux.

OK, I think it’s time for sleep, it’s nearly 5am.