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.

I had my hair cut, grade 2. Just spoken to Mum, it doesn’t sound like Pip thinks much of La Rochelle…. I did get the bigger hard disk from Scan as a replacement, so I’m dead chuffed. I think I’ll rebuild Greivous and Solo when I get back to France, I can’t be bothered to do it now. I’ve just been playing with Google Earth v4b for Linux, it’s pretty good, nicely accelerated using the NVidia drivers, seems to have less detail than the old v3 for Windows version though – like I can’t see much of Chaillac.

My blog got comment-spammed, so I’ve locked it down now, you have to have a previously accepted comment and be signed-in to comment now. It did mean deleting the legitimate comments, but there have only been two or three so far anyway. My ADSL is going incredibly slow. I was quite busy at work today, writing a Korne shell script to make administering the MySQL database a bit easier, I even added a couple of new features to the CMS that were requested before we go into final testing.

I’m back from Brighton, only took about 2h15m on the way back, thanks to some idiot truck driver it took 6 hours on the way there – they shut five junctions on the M25 and redirected traffic through Kingston on the M3/A3. I got to Nanny’s at 8:30pm, having left work at 2:30pm! Saturday I took Nanny & Joyce for a drive down to Lewes where we sat by the river, walked through the old town and went to a nice little pub which was supplied by the brewery next door.