{"id":176,"date":"2005-05-18T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-18T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:15:41","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"The ball is rolling &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the &#8216;real&#8217; world now after a week away &#8230; Isle of Wight: sunny, cool, windy, relaxing, no thinking about work\/stuff; winner!<\/p>\n<p>Brain dump:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The General Election: Labour getting 35% of the votes gives them a majority of 60 seats? Where is the justice in that?  Apparently, in England (as opposed to the whole country), Labour actually polled fewer votes than the Conservatives, but still ended up with 100 or so more seats.  That really is ridiculous.  At least Blair has had the decency not to say anything to suggest that he has &#8220;a strong mandate from the people&#8221; or whatever &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>LUG-Radio stuff.  All LUG-Radio regulars (including me) have their blogs syndicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rimron.co.uk\/lugradio\/\">Planet #lugradio<\/a>; if you&#8217;re interested, we still play Enemy Territory twice a week too; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/clan.lugradio.org\/\">Clan LUG-Radio<\/a> site for details; on June 25th, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugradio.org\/live\/2005\/\">LUG-Radio Live<\/a>, which will be fun: meeting all the online-only-so-far contacts, listening to a variety of interesting talks etc. I&#8217;m looking forward to that one.<\/li>\n<li>Work: We start the formal move to new premises on Thursday 2 June, but today saw the first new pieces of equipment (firewall, switches, email server etc.) delivered to the new site.  As a colleague said, &#8220;<i>The ball is rolling &#8230;<\/i>&#8220;.  As part of the moving process, I have been clearing out my office; this is Interesting, since there&#8217;s stuff there which dates from my predecessor&#8217;s time and before (early 1990s).  And there&#8217;s a lot of very old equipment that we&#8217;re having to throw away, just because it&#8217;s not really any use keeping it &#8211; a few select pieces have been collected by the local geekery and found new homes, but most of it will end up in the <i>really big skip<\/i> outside.<\/li>\n<li>One of our servers had a problem.  We have a &#8220;next day on-site support\/repair&#8221; contract.  A bloke called Dean arrived on-site, the next day, to provide support and to repair the server (replacement motherboard).  Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin (TM) \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the &#8216;real&#8217; world now after a week away &#8230; Isle of Wight: sunny, cool, windy, relaxing, no thinking about work\/stuff; winner! Brain dump: The General Election: Labour getting 35% of the votes gives them a majority of 60 seats? Where is the justice in that? Apparently, in England (as opposed to the whole&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=176\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}