Now we have a working* broadband link to the outside world the house is almost fully commissioned. There are a few final cabling/routing details to be sorted once the microwave up-link is installed and the house will be fully armed and operational. Now all I need to do is finishing unpacking my room before I [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2009
Migrating to WordPress?
Live Journal have been more than a little crap the last week or so. As many may know I actually host my blog on my own website but most people comment on the syndicated feed on Live Journal. I’m thinking of migrating my blog to the slightly more feature complete WordPress and enabling comments on [...]
Promise of Cake
The house has reached a state considered acceptable for receiving guests. There are still a few boxes left to empty (including *somewhere* a box with a pestle and mortar in it) but all the main areas are habitable and presentable. As a result we invited over some friends for our first “formal” event since moving [...]
The power of the wheel
I suffered bike death last night on the way home. Thankfully the mechanical failure (which I heard) occurred about 1/2 a mile away from the house so I didn’t have too far to push the bike. I’m not sure what failed but the rear wheel had a slightly eccentric rotation in the morning. After something [...]
Should have been obvious…
I recently turned on longlines-mode for my It’s All Text buffers as that is generally what I want (especially for this blog). However when I’m editing email for GMail I want to be able to switch between modes as I may be writing a simple message or inserting a patch which shouldn’t get mangled. It [...]
Unsurprising
The broadband fitting I expected to turn up on Saturday didn’t actually materialise. It turns out the automated system got confused by our move from a cable area to a “national” area and went ahead and cancelled one without booking in the other. I’m not totally cut off though, I have an excellent 5 bar [...]
The hinterland…
..that is waiting for the broadband to turn-up. The first night in the house was nice although lacking in curtains so woke up early this morning. We have a mostly functional kitchen although no fridge yet. Fliss is building furniture upstairs. There are still a fair number of boxes to go, including in what is [...]
Tetris
Yesterday’s packing went smoothly enough that by the end of the day our life was contained in a series of tessellating boxes. Theses boxes are currently being carried out by a series of big strong men and loaded into the two vans. At the rate they are going we should be able to make a [...]
Statements of the bleeding obvious
This little gem turned up in the news today. The suggestion that the rest of industry should cut greenhouse emissions even more to accommodate the growth in aviation is frankly silly. Aviation has to do it’s part and certainly in the short-term this means less flying. In this context it’s hard to see what building [...]
More iPlayer updates for the PS3
There is more information about the new iPlayer support for the PS3 on the BBC Internet Blog. While I don’t get a shiny iPlayer logo on my XMB (due to owning the Japanese version) I don’t really miss much as it was just a link to the iPlayer web-page. However according to the BBC blog [...]
