I’ve not done much this weekend, I’m not wonderfully motivated for some reason. Saturday I went out and did my first real test of the new GPS – it went pretty well actually, I like the way it says go over the roundabout, or turn right at the roundabout, not just take 2nd exit or 3rd exit, plus its accurate – my old Acer was always 200m out in the UK (France was alright).

I reformatted my 2.5″ external hard disk last night – well first I tried resizing with GParted, which worked but was going to take 4 hours to copy the data onto the new partition, so I quit it and did it manually. So now I have a 45Gb NTFS primary partition (Windows only sees the first partition of an external drive) and a 100Gb ext3 partition. It works a treat on Linux using ntfs-3g, and also on WindowsXP (although seem to have permissions issues on NTFS) which handled a 3.

Incredibly boring day at work today. My agency is trying to make all sorts of changes mid-contract, to which I say a royal “fuck off”, plus I don’t seem to have been paid for last week yet. I played a bit more with VMWare Workstation 6.5beta2 again today, it seems Solaris 9 and 10 tools are completely broken and 64-bit support is pretty rubbish. I’m seriously thinking of nuking my Fedora7 install at work and installing Fedora9 to try Xen/KVM again.

Urgh I hate bank holidays – when you’ve got nothing to do (and have a cold!) they can really drag – plus you don’t get paid! Weather’s been pretty good lately though. I’ve been playing with my GPS a bit more, and I really like iGO8. I tried to get it to direct me from Boulogne to Chaillac without going through Paris, and it found the same route that I usually take – after I told it to go via some point on the N154.

I’m back from my couple of weeks in France. The weather was lovely and we even went to the mobile home for a few days. I was there for Pippa’s birthday too. Work’s been busy-ish since I got back – mainly catching up on what’s been going on since I’ve been away. Weather’s been pretty good for Ipswich too. I’ve been to the doctors – he said that I’ve probably torn some ligaments (or something like that) in my back, which takes longer to heal than a kneck injury, which is just stretching of the ligaments.