Being a fan of open source software, I decided to give an old laptop a new lease of life today by installing Debian GNU/Linux on it. It installed in a breeze having only downloaded the mininal bootable CD version (and burned it onto a CD of course). The rest of the install was done over the net – with me choosing the components I wanted. Nice and easy, just the way I like it and hey presto I had a networked laptop with internet access.
Now your probably wondering why on earth I’d want to do something as seemingly random as this. Well I decided on this ‘flavour’ of linux in order to try out a cool piece of software from Best Practical called ‘Request Tracker‘ – more commonly known as ‘RT’. Unfortunately this wasn’t as easy to install and the wiki-based documentation was rather out of date – so it was a little bit like trying to feel my way around in the dark.
I’ve almost completed the installation now, but decided to call it a day and come home early from work as it is the bank holiday weekend after all. Besides, I know if I’d stayed on I’d want to play with the system and then end up being home late again!
With the weather not being up to much, DDWT Junior had another go at finger painting today – with the following wonderfully colourful results.
No it’s not something I’ve caught during one of my lunch hour fitness routines, it was a business continuity workshop I attended today – based on a flu pandemic. All very useful up to a point – but as is the case with any “disaster” a lot of the pre-planning goes out of the window, purely due to having to respond to the situation as it unfolds in front of you. Anyway, that’s just my opionion and I’m no business continuity expert, far from it.
I’m came across a funny little disclaimer from the BBC today whilst using their ‘send it to a friend’ email service – which let’s you send a hyperlink to a particular article you’ve read on their website. I took a screen dump to capture it, which you can see (hopefully) below…
For those of you who can’t see it or can’t be bothered *wink* here is the text of the disclaimer…
The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and anything
written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC’s views or
opinions.
Well hello, but aren’t the BBC the ones who wrote the article that you’re sending to your friend? Whilst I understand that you can obviously send a personal message with the email, it still doesn’t detract away from the rather contradictory opening line.
It amused me enough to send it off to the Register and Plain English campaign anyway, as they’re into that sort of thing.
After chilling out yesterday lunchtime, it was back in the saddle for me today with a 12 mile blast down to Catherine Zeta-Jone’s place (in Plunch Lane) and around Mumbles for a change. Am really flying along with my new slicks on, but I am noticing that my backside is – how shall we say – feeling the bumps far more and as a result is a wee bit more tender at the end of the tour.
I came across the wonderfully useful and free Google Analytics service today – which, in the words of Google …
… tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.
I was so intrigued that I’ve now set it up to analyse all the traffic on this blog (not that I get a lot mind you) – the results of which I’ll feed back to you all in due course. You can read even more about the service from the dedicated Google Analytic blog.
It’s quite a novelty today NOT to be going out on my bike for a lunchtime ride. I decided to take the day off as I think the skip-filling events of the weekend have finally caught up with me. I’m in desperate need of some zzzzzz’s and some lenghty ones at that.
DDWT Junior has been busy today finger painting and here are the fruits of his labours. Bless him, he’s only 2 and a half and obviously has artisitic talent (but I’m bound to say that as I’m a proud Dad).
Well I tested my slicks out on an 11 mile lunchtime ride today and I’m glad to report that all went well, very well in fact. Whilst there was probably only a 1 or 2 mph increase in my average speed, the loss of the treacle tyres I was using made all the difference when it came to climbing the hillier parts of the ride.
A disappointing 3-2 defeat (after extra-time) for the Swans against the Choirboys of Wycombe tonight in the 1st round of the league cup. Oh well, at least we can concentrate on the league – yes I know it’s a well known cliche, but it’s bloody true in my opinion.
My Dad who went to the game said that the Swans were a shambles (again) but credit to them for battling back from 2 goals down. Interestingly, he said that things improved when Bayo came on for the ever increasingly lazy and lacklustre McLoed.
I’m personally beginning to wonder if Kenny Jackett should revert back to Trundle and Bayo up-front as we did at the start of last season – as the Trundle & Fallon partnership doesn’t seem to work. Then again, what do I know – I used to play rugby not football!
DDWT Junior certainly enjoyed himself again (as he did at last year’s carnival) and has really taken to bopping away to the various drumbeats (which happen to be very catchy).
