Today I actually ironed a shirt. Trouble is, nobody believes me. And my only witness is just two years old.

Everything seems to be returning to normal. I’ve got control of sungate.co.uk back finally and it all seems to work. The lesson here seems to be that if you want to get your ISP to do something manual and boring that isn’t going to earn them any money, don’t expect them to touch it over… (read more)

Looks like the new DNS details for sungate.co.uk are slowly propogating now, which is good. If you still get errors emailing to sungate.co.uk or using the web site via www.sungate.co.uk then use the alternatives given previously, but as the propogation progresses, this shouldn’t be necessary. The first sign that the domain was behaving properly was… (read more)

When I asked 1&1 Webhosting to transfer my domain across to Bytemark, they set this process in motion straight away. However, they also immediately stopped routing my email and web traffic for sungate.co.uk 🙁 While they are technically allowed to do this, it would have been courteous for them to continue to route the email… (read more)

I’m moving my domain, sungate.co.uk from 1&1 Webhosting to Bytemark hosting, where I already have the machine which runs this web site. This will mean I will have more control over what happens to the domain and can manage the DNS records directly, which will be, erm, educational probably. Anyway, during the transfer, there may… (read more)

Well, that was not a fun day. This morning, I lost a battle with some black ice on my way to work on my bike. Minor, superficial injuries resulted – not serious by a long shot, but far from pleasant. Walked back home with my bike, neither me nor the bike being in a fit… (read more)

Our central email server has problems with its SCSI controller. Or possibly with one of its SCSI hard drives. Looks like I’ll be spending a couple of hours at work this evening trying to fix this and/or replace the faulty components. 🙁

Oh dear. On running an apt-get upgrade the other evening for my Debian workstation, something weird happened with the package dependencies and my nice window manager KDE disappeared. Yep, the packages were actually deleted! Guess I wasn’t really paying attention when it gave the summary of what it was doing, d’oh! I actually like KDE… (read more)

I’ve just released a new version of colordiff, my GPL-ed utility for colourifying the output from ‘diff’ operations, making them far easier to read. It is currently adorning the front page of FreshMeat. Believe me, if you start using colordiff, you won’t be able to stop … 🙂 Here’s a screenshot of the typical output:

Couple of interesting news snippets I spotted today: Was amused to read this story where a woman had a heart attack and was saved by “a plane full of cardiologists” on their way to Orlando for a conference. I also note with interest that Tim Berners-Lee, the bloke who effectively “invented the web” (not the… (read more)