I’m off to Brighton for the weekend after work tomorrow. It will be nice to have some company, sea air and to be out of bloody Gloucester! Not looking forward to the drive in 30c temps though! It’s 25c or something here today – hotter than France at the moment. I sent my hard disk back today, it should get there tomorrow, so I should get it replaced easily before I return to France.

It’s 6/6/06 today – birthday of the Beast 😉 I think one of Solo’s hard disks is on it’s way out. Not great as I’ve only had it a year. The problem is, it’s very hard to tell which one it is, as it’s very intermittent and as the two drives are LVM’d together, it’s hard to tell which disk holds any corrupted files. At one point the computer booted without showing disk 1 (so maybe power problems?

Just added an entries calendar to the sidebar of the blog, it looks and works better than the archive links. It makes use of the Widgets plugin. One thing I don’t like about WordPress is that when you install a new plugin, there’s always a lot of code hacking to do to get the layout how you want it. The plugins don’t have enough configuration options and don’t use a global CSS file.

My desktop machine has been crashing a bit lately, with no errors or anything, just hard crashing. I thought it might be one of the hard disks, but just tested them using the WDDiag program and they’re fine. I think it might be the heat, as it just crashed again whilst it was at about 52c running at 70% CPU. I’m currently downloading the VMWare Server Release Candidate 1, and installing Ubuntu 6.

Went out to a pub in the countryside last night with my landlady and some friends, we sat outside by the river until it got dark then went inside and had very nice fish/prawn platter, and some cider, and some John Smiths, and some Guinness, and some Southern Comfort, and some lager….. Had a very good time, and don’t seem to have a hangover – I didn’t roam the streets naked either, which is good!