I have returned to my clean shaved form. As the mornings get lighter and winter starts to recede I prefer my whole face to take advantage of the additional sunlight. I fairly certain I shall return to bearded form next winter.

Today has been clear-out day at work. Much of …

The weekend was a relatively quite one. I took advantage of the temporary loan of my Dad's bike to pay a visit into town and tick of a number of tasks in preparation for Christmas. This included by first every cut-throat* trim of the Winter Beard to prevent it going …

In between household tasks and playing with my new toy we indulged a mini DS9 viewing extravaganza. Every now and again Fliss suggests watching DS9 with our meal. Yesterday was the first time I recall Fliss excitedly requesting another episode to follow the one we had just seen. We ended …

I wondered down to visit my old colleagues from the Braddahead days for lunch today. Since the acquisition (and subsequent collapse of the acquiring company) they have set up shop as Streamscale and are working on upgrading and developing the CCTV system I started on over 5 years ago. They …

Failed in my attempt to upgrade to exim4 today. The documentation for upgrading is just so dam sparse. It doesn't help that all the Debian Specific Documentation is in the exim4-base package. This means you have to commit to upgrading before you've had a chance to read the migration notes …