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Two weeks and no posts? This can mean only one thing - I've been busy! And that I haven't got back into the habit of writing diary entries. Ok, so two things.

Let's see - first there was the Great British Cheese festival; Tristan came up from Bath, we bumped into Simon and Natalie, bought lots of cheese, and I also bought so much apple juice that I pulled a muscle in my shoulder getting it back to the car. Good times.

Then the company I'm working for in London had a night out at The Comedy Store, which was a lot of fun - but meant a panicked rush around unknown underground lines in the third rush hour (11pm = drunken party people time), and only just made it to Victoria to catch the last train back to Kent. By pure coincidence I bumped into Anton on the way back up from Sevenoaks the next day, which was nice.

Sadly not all good news - Mir has died again, and I think it's time to put it to rest. It's been relegated to deployment testing duties these days, so it doesn't seem worth spending the time and money fixing it up, especially considering a VM can do the same job better. It looks like it's the PSU for the second time, and it would involve effort to find a replacement that would fit in the case. Still, it's been a nice little machine - 5 and a half years isn't bad considering the life it's led, and that it is so very small.

I've been playing Team Fortress 2 a bit since it came out in beta, and have played through Portal, which is an awesome little game - simple, but perfect. Those two are worth the price of the orange box alone, and I haven't even started with Episode 2. Excellent value, want more of this. Although I'm not quite so keen on the Steam community profile thing - I don't want to know how long I've been wasting my time, thank you very much.

Other topics that I could mention include spam, server maintenance, new websites and projects, and finally succumbing to svn. But I won't mention those, not today.