Well, several things have kicked off today: London has been chosen to host the 2012 Olympics; In the European Parliament, there was a huge vote against the software patents bill – this is a very good thing, although the bill may resurface again in the future: let’s not forget the European Council’s habit of ‘ignoring’… (read more)

A frustrating day, lots of jobsworth annoying people. They Know Who They Are. A bit of database hacking today, too, which actually worked out OK but took more effort than I would have hoped to get there. There’s a recently-created table in the database with about 12 columns, two of which are integers but which… (read more)

Yesterday, I went to LUG-Radio Live, which was a most excellent day. Got the train up to Wolverhampton and found my way to Molineux Stadium and got to meet loads of people that I have only ever previously communicated electronically with (email, IRC etc.). And I got to shake hands with a real Space Man…. (read more)

Too hot around here to do much … but, at least I’m looking forward to going to LUG-Radio Live on Saturday, in Wolverhampton. Should be fun to meet up with people that, to date, I’ve online met virtually. I’ve talked to them virtually, I know what most of them look like and plenty about them,… (read more)

A summary of the week: I cycled 70 miles (five return journeys to work); The air-conditioning in our East comms room is playing up, thus making kit do strange things. This has already been fixed (twice) and so I really hope it is fixed this time. ‘Cos it’s turning into a very hot weekend and… (read more)

We went to find our first geocache at the weekend. Geocaching is an outdoor ‘game’ where you try to find caches (hidden boxes, for example) concealed by someone else: they publish the exact latitude and longitude of the cache, and you go to find it using your handheld GPS receiver. We found this one which… (read more)

There will be more to follow, but for now, here is a sample of the pictures taken at The New Place: An annotated page showing sixteen photos is here.

So here we go … Debian Sarge released yesterday and I’m part of it. You can download the entire distribution on to 14 CDs. Typically, the core system, most popular and useful programs go on the first couple of CDs, with the less popular programs on later ones. CD1 is sufficient to do a basic… (read more)

So, first ‘proper’ day at the new premises along with all the rest of the ‘normal’ staff. Brief synopsis: Bike ride in reasonable conditions took 42 minutes getting to work, and 36 minutes getting home at the end of day (discrepancy due to the previously-mentioned Sodding Great Hill at the ‘work’ end of the route);… (read more)

Well, it’s been very busy: setting up the new network at the new premises. All the gory details are here. While the removals guys were moving in all our furniture and PCs, we were patching the patch panels to the switches. This took three of us basically the whole day (one of us basically full-time,… (read more)