Been playing with PostgreSQL and Python again. I’ve installed pyscopg, pgdb and pg modules, as well as the adodb database wrapper. I must say I am impressed with the number of RPM packages available for Fedora 5 via yum, I’ve only had to install three or four programs manually, and that’s mainly because they were closed-source (Java) or very specialised (Sybase). Just watched episode 22 of Lost series 2, one more episode left….

Went to the pub at lunchtime today. Other than that I’ve just been rewriting a crappy script that some Scottish kid wrote that’s now broken due to the read-only fileserver. Mother’s Day in France on Sunday. I bet the card I left has been lost put somewhere safe 😉 Gonna finish watching Lost tonight I think, the final episode is in the mail apparently!

We finally got SharePoint installed today, also migrated the fileserver to a Netapp Filer. I downloaded a bunch of ebooks today – SQL, PHP, Java, XSLT etc. I’m up to 19/23 of Lost 2 now….

Didn’t get much done at work today – well we did, but we have to do it all over again 🙁 Dad said someone possibly wants to rent my house out for a year, I’m not keen, there’s not enough money in it to be inconvenienced for a year. 3-4 months would be fine whilst I’m working next year, I guess it would pay the mortgage….. I’ve watched like five episodes of Lost tonight I think, it’s getting really weird with everyone halucinating.

Been trying out PHP 5.1, MySQL 5.0 and Apache 2.2 today, which seem to require libxml2 v2.6.24 to compile on Solaris 9. PHP 5’s new OOP stuff it a total rip-off of Python, in fact it even has the same dodgey visibility bugs, which makes me suspicious. The exception handling is not as good either – it’s only try…catch, there’s no else/final. MySQL 5’s transactions are nice – just like being in Oracle, with rollbacks and commits.