I was able to get the pipework for the upstairs bathroom sink finished pretty quickly. I'll probably need to revisit the waste drain pipe at some point but overall it's all good. That left me plenty of time to watch England's performance against Scotland. It wasn't a fantastic performance but …

So I left my work machine upgrading this evening. When I logged into the VPN to check on it's progress I found a few things stopping it so had to temporarily un-install some packages. Unfortunately I didn't notice the package management tools and ssh get un-installed when I pulled one …

My snazzy Ogg capable Samsung YP-U2R finally arrived yesterday. It's a nice little neat 2Gb solid state player with a built in FM tuner. It has it's own internal rechargeable battery which charges off the USB port. Well when I say charges I actually mean it draws enough power of …

It's tempting to comment on today's release of Vista but I suspect I shall wait until reports of machines being bricked when drivers start getting remotely revoked by Microsoft.

Instead I thought I would offer a comment on the Catholic Church complaining they haven't been given the right to discriminate …

Pictures from my skiing holiday are up. Notice the large amounts of green from the first few days and how much snow on the last day. And of course the snazzy boots.