Ok, ok, ok. Yes it’s been ages again, 3 weeks to be exact, but I’m pretty pushed for time these days.

So, whats new? Well Shortly after I posted last, I went snowboarding for half a day which was great. Bumps and bruises all round once again.

I have a new phone, which seems to be a redesign of my old one with crapper games, so nothing interesting to say there. The thing I didn’t want to announce last time was that I’m getting a new car. A brand new Mini no less. Well, it’s a company car, but still, it’s explicitly for my use. Gonna push the pennies to limit though I think, a point at which they are already at, but it’s something I would have to do in the next few months anyway, so there wasn’t too much choice in the matter.

By Monday you will realise that I am once again guest presenter on LUG Radio, Season 3 Episode 13. Jono sent me over a pre-release copy and it sounds pretty good. It’s weird being on LUG Radio. The first time I was on, I struggled to listen as I thought I sounded weird and I also noticed how I tend to overpronounce my words, a fact which was confirmed by a giggling friend. It doesn’t bother me, but it’s just weird hearing yourself recorded and knowing that maybe 10 or 20,000 people are going to be listening to you.

The second time I was on, I was barely awake and on listening back, realised that I tend not to say anything of any real value. I’m great at chipping in with the scrotal humour, but not so great at saying anything useful. The third and possibly this most recent time have borne this theory out in my mind. On the other hand, I have to remember that I normally get less than 24 hours notice, 8 of which I am asleep, 8 of which I am at work and perhaps 3 or 4 hours are spent getting ready and travelling to work and back; being pedal to the metal all day leaves me around 15 to 20 minutes emergency research time, so in reality I am doing OK. I just feel that the intellectual content of the show suffers a little when I guest.

So what else is new? At work I am hectic as usual and struggling to get on with Asterisk. I have 2 SIP phones and don’t think one of them is working properly, which is making life really awkward. I had to flash them to make them work in the first place. In my spare time I have set up a new Vexim machine on Debian to try as best as possible to stay within the bounds of a packaging system, which makes a machine handling 150 people’s mail a lot easier to support with patches etc. It’s pretty much working except Courier-POP3 just will not authenticate against the MySQL database, even though it and the various authlib and authmysql parts have the same config as a Fedora machine which does work. Go figure.

Anyway, that’s it for now. Hope you’re all well.