Due to being mucked around by my agency (they just announced its going to be 5 more working days, not mid-week as previously hinted at) I’m flying back to France tomorrow morning for another week, whilst I await a new contract. I’ve only been on holiday for a day and am already out of things to do in Ipswich! I’ve cancelled my service and MOT as neither is really due for another three weeks.

I’m back from my trip to France – which got extended by a couple of days due to erm, snow. It was nice and relaxing, caught up with family and had some good food and drink. I took most of my stuff back with me, so I didn’t feel like I was living out of a suitcase whilst there, I was more settled. I’m wishing I hadn’t bothered coming back now though, due to having to deal with agency and contract crap.

Only 3 days left until I go to France on Friday! I’m mostly packed, gonna do a late Tesco shop for supplies tomorrow and then put everything in the car. I should be getting a replacement Mac Mini tomorrow, then another courier is going to pick up the broken one (turns out its a dodgey RAM chip) hopefully before Friday, then we’ll see what free gift I get as compensation – I’m after a keyboard, but will probably end up with an Apple T-Shirt or something rubbish.

I got my new Mac Mini today, all very nicely packaged and designed, not too keen on all teh GUI’s for doing anything. Anyway I’ve already managed to brick it by installing the recommended 10.5.2 update, hopefully I can fix it tomorrow at work with a USB keyboard, or I’ve got to reinstall from the DVD’s….. NOT impressed. I got XBMC working on it, as well as a few other apps like VideoLAN, MPlayer etc.

Its that time of year again when all the TV series come to an end – or at least the ones I’m watching, and a few new ones begin. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has ended its first series after nine episodes, looks a bit dodgey that its going to come back after that short a run – plus its producers are busy with Terminator 4. Stargate: Atlantis series four has ended, with an excellent finale, apparently series five may air as soon as July.