am spending a fraught night in with my ailing ppro file server, a dodgy fujitsu boot disk, a hopefully healthy seagate replacement, a debian rescue floppy and judicious use of ghost, fdisk and chroot. I’d much rather be out having a beer, but unfortunately this will have to suffice. replacement machine — pentium /// 600…

[15:32] <neuro> dude! what does mine say? [15:32] <deKay> Sweet! What does mine say? [15:32] <neuro> dude! what does mine say? [15:32] <deKay> Sweet! What does mine say? [15:32] <neuro> dude! what does mine say? [15:33] * deKay was kicked by luv-snail (deKay) [15:33] * You were kicked by luv-snail (neuro) [15:33] * Attempting to…

christ, is it actually 4am? I got sucked into the new novel Goodnight Steve McQueen by first time author Louise Wener, formerly lead temptress^Wsongstress for britpop band Sleeper, who I *adore*. Is it sad to say that? Probably. Do I care? Not much. I was really into them while I was at uni, bought all…

just thought i’d remind anyone reading this that SpamAssassin bloody rocks when it comes to making sure i see as little spam as possible — some people i know were toying with running it on mac OS X, well here’s how!

The Open Projects IRC network, aka OPN, is now called Freenode, for no other reason than I think Rob ‘lilo’ Levin farted and it sounded like frrrrrrnod, and maybe he thought “oooh, cool” … so in honour of OPN’s totally unnecessary namechange, I couldn’t resist posting this … cunningly mirrored from ikari.devaluate.com read the liloaid…

bah – so, monday night, I get home and order a mixed calzone (calzone pizza with spicy chicken, doner meat and spicy onions) from my local takeaway, and munch away after it gets delivered. later on in the night, i notice that the mild toothache i had while at jim’s on sunday is getting worse.…

ahhhhhhhhhhhh, home again. Managed a stompin drive back from Cardiff, only stopping at Knutsford services just before 12 to grab a burger and a bottle of water for the road ahead. Left Jim’s at 8:15am, and was back in the house at 3:15pm — i was pretty impressed, considering I don’t cruise over 90mph —…

Hmmm, change of plans — I was supposed to be spending this Monday to Friday/Saturday in Winchester to work face-to-face with the guys, but it seems everyone will be moving about too much for me to be anywhere but in a hotel room, so I’m driving home tomorrow instead of driving to Winchester. Probably a…

Made it to Jim’s just outside Cardiff — didn’t get lost like the last time in July with Ade, Iyan and Qif in tow!! Picked up Super Monkey Ball for GC, some comics from the Comix Shoppe (natch) and Louise Wener’s new book, Goodnight Steve McQueen (quick history lesson: Louise Wener was lead vocalist and…