I got home today and had a sudden urge to run. I think this is because I've been cooped up in an office all day and needed some physical exertion. I didn't run far, but I did run hard (so to speak).

Yesterday I reached the culmination of my training yesterday and completed the Great Manchester Run 2005. I was quite pleased with my result of 1h08m15s although I didn't make under the hour which was one of my targets. I did however keep going for the whole 10k without breaking into …

I went, I ran, I finished and kept going until the finish line. More later after the post run beers have worn off....

I've spent most of the morning trying to properly fix the glibc on my Gentoo system. It appears after much analysis my problems stemmed from the backward compatibility to the old Linux Threads system (TLS). Once I specified nptlonly in my USE flags and rebuilt glibc everything worked fine. I …

Well its over. My overall conclusion, not as bad as I feared it could be. In fact I enjoyed the whole film although it was slightly marred by the poor dialog, especially some of the Yoda stuff. It seems they wrote the dialog and then just went around switching words …