Hmmm, perhaps the 2nd pint was a bad idea. I feel a little tipsy and I'm unlikely to be writing any spectacular code this afternoon. Still it was good to catch up with Paula and Katie. We were wondering what parties are coming up this season. I'm pondering if its …

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 …