Situation Report

Today I'm in the middle of moving my sites and services to new machines, finishing my new monitoring/alert system because last week monit failed to tell me a server had disappeared, I'm finishing the new CMS, upgrading bits of an old CMS, fixing problems appearing on the new servers, creating 3 new client mini-sites, and still trying to clear the 60+ e-mails that arrived while I was away on holiday. I've also written an excellent nginx control script, which I'll release on richardterry.co.uk next year.

We're also trying to buy a house at the moment - we've had an offer accepted, and it's very exciting, but it has involved far too much time on the phone and writing e-mails to the estate agent, our solicitor and mortgage advisor, getting quotes for surveys and insurance to cover the house, life, the universe and everything, searching for places to source kittens etc. Still, we now seem to have reached the point where all we can do is wait for our people to talk to their people and decide when we can give them money and move in.

Consequently I haven't had time to work on my own sites, and although I do have half of my holiday written up, I still need to finish it off and go through the photos before I can post it on here.

Things are so busy that I've only played the first level of Super Mario Brothers Wii, and haven't even unwrapped Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed 2, or *gasp* the GTA DLC, which all arrived last week. Feels like I need someone to come along and stop time for about 6 months, to give me a chance to catch up with everything. That, or recruit a fleet of mind-reading interns.

Comments

Mark

Awesome!!!

Thanks. Business as usual... apart from the house. Good luck with that :D

Good to hear you're still really busy, despite any "economic slowdown". And GTA still features in your life :P

Yay!

radiac

Hehe absolutely - lurching between urgent projects seems to be my style these days!

Indeed it does - I bought an xbox pretty much just for GTA. Given up on PC gaming now, apart from Left 4 Dead.

Thanks about the house, will put updates on here when interesting things happen!

I've been trying to keep track of your escapades on Facebook, but have failed - keep meaning to send you a message to say hi. Will do that soon...

Andrew

If you're after some development servers, you can pick up an HP ML115 for £206 on dabs - quad-core 2.2GZ Opteron, 1GB ram, 160GB disk, runs quietly. Nice deal.

Mine arrived this morning :)

radiac

Wow, things are getting so cheap these days. I run VMs for dev when necessary, so don't know about a development server, but that sounds beefy enough to be a replacement for my main soon-to-be-dead desktop...

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