Diary: March 2007

Birthday stuff!

Only a week late, but better late than never! Work, journeys, meetings; a busy week. And now I have the weekend to catch up.

As I mentioned in my post last week, Leela had cunning plans for my birthday, which were top secret. I had to test my car, so as I drove and she directed it turned out that we were going to Bath! Hurrah!

We had lunch up in the Slug and Lettuce - it's moved to where RSVP used to be, evoking memories of pub crawls and t-shirts and Kate. But it's all shiny and decorated ...

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Things I Learnt Last Week

Some useful things that I learnt last week:

  • My expensive Sony laptop can survive a 3 foot drop. Onto tiles. Lid first. While powered on. And writing to the hard drive.
  • It's a bad thing when someone else's server accidentally gets assigned your APC reboot port. And they want to reboot their server. And they live by the motto If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again. Especially when you are trying to demo a site for a client, with whom you have a money back reliability agreement.
  • People don ...

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Another Infrequent Update

Woah! What's this, another update? Four posts so far this month, and we're only just into the last week. You are lucky.

As I have alluded to in previous posts, I have a Wii, which Leela bought me for my birthday. I feel I need to give it an entry of its own, because it's so utterly awesome - half of the entry is sitting in my drafts, but I just can't seem to get the other half finished. I will endeavour to post some more information shortly, but suffice it to say it is a lot ...

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