Tue, 27 Apr 2004
Ye gods, how hard can it be to fix a problem with a “was working” wireless network? Mesh have been at it since 10am yesterday. We had connectivity for a few hours yesterday, but it went off before 2.30pm and hasn’t been back since. It is now 12pm again, so we’ve been without connectivity for around 22 hours straight. This really really REALLY sucks. Update: 27 hours and counting… (some of the network is now back, just not enough for my node to see the world sigh)
Mon, 26 Apr 2004
Irritated to distraction by the fact that my Wireless Broadband link has been down for the past two hours (and was out for 30 minutes on Saturday anyway) I have finally pre-ordered DSL. I chose a local company InterViVo who I have met with on a personal, professional and indeed B2B basis. They are reasonably priced, seem to be amongst the lowest latency of the choices and have no setup fee (providing you commit to 12 months). This change means that as soon as my DSL is enabled, I’ll be looking to terminate my MESH contract. This will leave MESH in a bit of a quandry because I’m a “node” which means that over ten of MESH’s customers rely on me to provide downstream bandwidth. Perhaps I can make some money from them (say 10 quid per month) as rental of my wall and electricity. P.S. If you want to buy DSL from InterViVo (who are thoroughly nice chaps) then if you put 185 as the referral code, I’ll get a wee rebate on some of my DSL charges (which will make me very very happy)
Thu, 22 Apr 2004
It struck me last night that a track I’ve been hearing on the telly recently had a very strange lyric in it. You see, I could have sworn that the words went: ”... a little anaemic ...”
which is somewhat odd. It turns out that the lyrics (from a track called “Slow Jamz”) are: ”... a little Anita will definitely set this party off…”
. Then, while wandering back from getting some mints, it struck me that Super-Kali-Pugilistic-Explode-It’s-Atrocious would be a somewhat appropriate mishearing of that famous “long word”.
Wed, 21 Apr 2004
I’ve failed to blog for a while so i thought I’d give a general update in no particular order…
- Simon Huggins has been working on the Xfce4 in Debian situation with my sponsorship. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Simon for the effort he’s putting into this.
- Work continues to bore me. Please give me a new job.
- LUDEx was a bit cruddy
- I started a test Wiki for me to fiddle with here using AJPS’ Whicky codebase which is developed here.
- I got a new WiFi card.
- I got my WiFi card working
- I had a birthday, which was fun
- I got nice presents; which were… erm… nice :-)
- Once of those was “Moab is my Washpot” (a kind gift from Livejournal:spodlife and Livejournal:bellanna) and it is excellent
- I need to watch “La Haine” (a kind gift from Livejournal:kjaneway) since I have now watched Wilde (Livejournal:gwendraith).
Tue, 13 Apr 2004
Stealing shamelessly from my mother out-law I would like to invite you all to ask me three questions. No more, No less. I promise to answer them honestly, or else not at all. I will not answer questions which would breach any promise of secrecy I have made to other people; nor will I reveal information directly related to myself which is meant to otherwise be secret (E.g. the way I voted in any given secret ballot) unless I don’t feel that the secrecy is important. Post your questions below in LJ comments and I will respond to them directly. Then, shamelessly steal this meme for your blog and we’ll spread the honesty ;-)
Mon, 05 Apr 2004
For those of you who know what I’m on about, I’ve mailed you about Saturday… For those of you who know what I’m on about, June’s trip to Milton is now being organised on my test wiki. URL in the email I sent to you. For those of you who have no idea what I’m on about— congratulations, here is a random website as a prize.