Good Things, Bad Things

It seems I’m not having time to write proper posts here at the moment, so here’s a quick summary.

Good things:

• Discovering that the central IT services for the local University (onto whose network we will be moving shortly) are very competent, very helpful and properly organised;
• The new series of Dr Who, despite Billie Piper – actually, possibly because of Billie Piper;
• Being able to solve a configuration difficulty with dnsmasq by downloading and reviewing the dnsmasq source code, finding references to undocumented behaviour;
• The usefulness of the debian-user mailing list in sorting out various issues;
• Looking forward to an incredibly geeky gathering at LUG-Radio Live, meeting up with members of the team and others from the LUG-Radio community;
• The new album from New Order;

Bad things:

• The prospect of a continuing Labour Government;
• The prospect of a replacement Conservative Government;
• The increasing reliance of OpenOffice 2 on Sun’s Java;
• Spam;
• All the work still to do prior to our Department’s move to new premises in June;
• No political party is, as far as I am aware, proposing to introduce a Stupidity Tax at the forthcoming General Election;

I’m sure I had more Bad Things than that. I may add to it as more stuff occurs to me.