Rik's Place

And so ends rather a stressful week. I'm definitely glad for the long weekend, I really need it!

In other news... I'm not nearly as hungover as I should be this morning!

Mr Canadian Dave....

If you read this.... EMAIL US OR SOMETHING!!!

We haven't heard from you in over 6 months, and we'd like to know how you're getting on!

If you have since the end of November.. sowwy {looks sheepish}... my email has been down... but should be back properly in about 10 days time... in the mean time you can use my work email (yes I am still working at office depot!)

:)

Purplethings: Hugs in your general direction! Long time no speak.  xxx

I'm back on the internet at last!!!

Woohoo!

Hello to all again!

BTW I'm quite pissed!!!! I've been down the quite fantasically named Pavlov's Dog, A quality drinking establishment in Reading.

Hugs to all the people I know!

... I really need to get on with some! I really like working at home but its a real bugger to get motivated to start!

The last 2 weeks have been a bit of an eye opener... I've been on jury service... Although I only had to sit on one case during that time, it just highlighted how ridiculously turgid the criminal justice system is. The case I was on, if it had been conducted as a solid block would probably have taken 2 days, however due to the court not starting until 10 and the variously finishing at 3, 4 and 4:30 with an hour for lunch and a couple of other recesses took 4 (of which 3.5 hours were spent in retirement). the costs for the jury alone were in excess £3000! I also had to go in on one other day but an hour after they assembled the standby jury the defendant pleaded guilty and we were released.

 After all that I didn't get to send anyone down, we acquitted the bloke in the 4 day trial because the prosecution case wasn't good enough.

And now, here I am on a Friday afternoon feeling meh and not wanting to do anymore work today.

I've finally managed to get my ass into gear and sort out my holiday pics...







I have posted the rest of them here: clicky

There are a few from the trip down to Portugal ... then a shed load from the festival itself.

Edit:  It helps if you point your link to the right gallery (slaps forehead)

I have been back from holiday for about 3 hours... I will update on it in the near future. (possibly with Piccies too!)

Here I am sat round a mate's house updating my journal, after a rather spiffing barbecue and a good evenings chatting of the breeze.

Just about to show of the picture I took at the last Boom festival to those who haven't seen them before.


On another note Vodafone have finally caved in and given me a decent phone for free, I ended up with a Motorola V3x. Bonus!

 

 

DNS and DHCP are now working perfectly, as is NTP. Samba still needs to be configured... Nearly there!

I've now finished the OS reinstall, just got to tie up those loose ends like BIND and Samba!

I'm a bit more relaxed now!

The kernel is now compiling... as the machine is a P133 it might take a while... time for bed methinks!

It's finally done after having to extend the timeout variable to 7.5 minutes.... now on with the rest of the installation!

Blinking computers!!!

My network server crashed quite spectacularly today, now I'm going through the hassle of reinstalling Linux on it...

I'm currently part way through the reinstall, waiting for the gentoo portage tree to sync and it keeps timing out, trying another mirror now.

I currently have limited DNS and DHCP on my network as I'm having to use the functionality built into the router, which is a bit clunky to say the least.

I'll update later on!

I had rather a cool weekend, not only did I do stuff, I also bought some stuff!

So to Saturday.... I've finally managed to buy some clothes ready for my holiday... I've known I've been going for the best part of 2 years, and still it takes me to within 2 months of going away to start getting organised. OK it's not like I'm going anywhere hugely out of the ordinary. I'm only going to Portugal. But I am going to a 7 day psytrance festival, by a beautiful lake in the middle of nowhere^tm. Anyways back to the point in hand. I bought shorts... this is unusual for me as I just don't do shorts, but I found some cool below the knee camo shorts in Next of all places, lots of pockets, just the thing for a festival in a hot place!

Last Friday, our mate Dave (canadave) had a bash to bid him fare-thee-well back to the land of bears, moose, maple syrup and the occasional several feet of snow. We all had a good time and much alcohol was consumed by all (well except me!).

I have now put up pics in my scrapbook ( http://pics.livejournal.com/rikj ).

Still recovering from a long weekend of partying with Dave's party followed by Baraka the next night ( which I helped set up and take down such is the life of crew!)

Work is dull. I hate transcoding programs, especially ones that I had to write in a hurry and didn't have time to comment properly. I am currently converting the site I developed for work from PHP into ASP.net. It's not that difficult it's just dull as fuck. At least I get work at home, which improve matters slightly, but does slow me down.

Plus I spent too much of last night playing HL2:Episode 1. I was only stopped by a power cut, probably a good thing given that it had gone 3 in the morning.

Still must get on, got to give a progress update on Monday to my boss.

[looks for the ProPlus tablets]

Here are some pictures I took last night at Awakening in Reading:






The rest are here :  Clicky

I really must post on here more often! Work seems to drain of the will to create anything at the moment.

Just when I think I'm about to formulate something to sa....
<beeeeeeeeeep>

"Sorry about the interruption, normal programming will now be resumed"