It’s been quite a while – almost a month since my last update. Lots has been going on in France and my new house. I’ve got most of my stuff unpacked and in place, tidied the loft and nextdoor. Got satellite TV installed in two rooms, got ADSL and phone installed, new TV/hifi etc. Pip will be bringing my Xbox over when she goes to England next month. We’ve carpetted and wallpapered the landing, stripped the wallpaper in my room ready for wallpapering, built a cupboard, got my computers installed on nice desks, run CAT6 network cable around the place, painted doors and mirrors and God knows what else – we may even be replacing the backdoor soon!

I got fed up with waiting for my ADSL modem to arrive from Free so plugged in my own router, and it works. I’m getting 2.4Mbps/163Kbps. So I should be making more blog posts now.

I’ve just installed psychopg2, the new PostregreSQL driver for Python. For some reason the bundled setup.cfg has debugging turned on, so needs editting before compilation. It’s syntax seems much the same as version one: #!/usr/bin/env python # import module import psycopg2 # connect to database dbconn = psycopg2.connect("host=localhost \ dbname=pgtest \ user=postgres \ password=password") # create cursor dbcur = dbconn.cursor() # execute query dbcur.execute("SELECT * FROM t_contacts") # output results as list print dbcur.

I’ve packed my clothes and bought some shoes – a pair of cheap trainers and a nice pair of steel-toecapped shoes, which are not too booty but actually quite tidy. I can’t find a freezer bag anywhere, or those blue things you put in the freezer, not in Sainsburys, Co-Op or Tesco! My ebuyer stuff is on it’s way, so will get to me tomorrow via Citylink. I shall pack the car tomorrow night, I’ve got to check the oil/water/air as well when I get petrol.

I added some sub-categories to the Techie section of my blog and tidied the existing posts into them. BloGTK doesn’t seem able to handle posting to multiple categories though. I also activated Akismet, the comment-spam plugin, so I’ve re-enabled unregistered comments for now. I turned off the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress, so I can edit posts through the web interface and still use QuickCode tags etc. I got the failover server working today at work, essentially cloned the new production server.