I've been delving deeply into the Linux VM subsystem the last few days while trying to debug a problem. Its giving me the opportunity to get a feel for how the virtual memory system goes together. I'm quite enjoying it at the moment because its actually interesting and I'm learning …

Just pulled my shoulder again by rotating to the left on my chair to turn the CCTV monitor on. This is getting very annoying as I keep thinking its healing and then an unexpected move suddenly makes it hurt a lot. I really should get around to having that bath …

I left work early today as the air conditioning was on the fritz. I could not concentrate in the 30 degree heat. As Lee was also skiving we took the opportunity to go and watch Hero.

Todays featured article on Wikipedia is about Emacs my default editor. I only mention this because of a conversation we had over the weekend about posting to LJ and if we edit using an external editor. Emacs is not the most friendly editor in the world, for one thing its …

I went down with Lee, Ste, Gillian and Aidan to Jeff and Phil's for a weekend in the country. I had a great time which hopefully comes across on the href="http://www.bennee.com/~alex/mig/index.php?pageType=folder&currDir=./Holidays/Jeff%20and%20Phils%20Oct%202004">pictures I …