I went to B&Q and Homebase to get a lightswitch for my new bathroom. I got a nice chrome rose bit and a blue/chrome handle that is a lightbulb, it’s lovely! They had chrome “teardrop” handles, but they were so heavy (looked like a fishing lure!) that if you swang the cord a bit too much you’d end up smashing the shower! Work’s starting to shit themselves a bit, we’re trying to organise a backup server (probably rebuild the old development UltraSparc with Perl, Bind and Apache), I’m going to have to [re]write a monitoring script, and they’re going to have to do the release without me in a couple of weeks time, which means I’ve got to explain to them how to do all the little hacks I have to do to migrate from the old servers to the new servers without a proper staging environment.

I’ve spent most of today at work compiling Qt and PyQt using Visual Studio.NET 2003. I finally got it all done, there are a few caveats like you have to edit your PATH and create shortcuts etc; but it’s nicer than the MinGW solution. I might have a go using VS2005 next 😉 The way I managed it (I couldn’t get it to work the way the PyKDE list said, downloading the MinGW distribution first etc.

Just upgraded this blog, so had to re-install the Widgets plugin (for the calendar) edit the stylesheet (increase font sizes, change alignment) and edit the footer (replace RSS stuff with query timer) at least they scripted the database update!

I’ve just installed Windows 2003 Server R2 under VMWare and Visual Studio 2005 on top of that, my poor laptop’s hard drive is boiling under the heat! I may be buying an extra 512Mb of OCZ-EL PC3200 from KK, which I guess can go in Solo when I rebuild it – 1.5Gb RAM will make VMWare run really nicely 😉 I’ll probably swap the crap RAM from Solo with the other two sticks of OCZ that are in Goliath, so Solo will have three identical sticks.

I had a play at making a C++ app in QtDesigner3 last night, it was relatively straightforward, the only bit of oddness was initialising some pointer or something! The signal handlers were pretty straightforward, and creating a main window form and help dialog box was easy. I should try Qt4 again (I have played with PyQt4, which seems completely different to PyQt3). I also briefly played with Visual Studio 2005 Pro yesterday at work, had a basic Windows.