I’m back in England contracting at BT, which is pretty slow at the moment as I’m waiting for my logins/Email to be setup. I’ve rebuilt my laptop and done some testing.

I’ve got a rotten cold and the weather’s grotty, but at least I’m earning money – although the landlord, accountant and taxman are taking most of my first week’s pay!

Just watched Planet Terror, which was a weird zombie flick, with a B-movie kind of look. I didn’t really get into it though.

Mum, Dad & I watched Die Hard 4.0 the other day, it was very good, although obviously PG-13. We also watched The Walker, which was absolute rubbish.

Dad’s crepying the walls in the shell, we’ve got electricity in there and run the ethernet through into my bedroom, although I didn’t pull enough through, so gotta put a coupler and a short bit of CAT5e on the end and hide it in some conduit.

Dad and I have been busy doing wiring and stuff in the shell, we’re having a couple of days off now that the weather is a bit cruddy.

I’m currently watching 28 Weeks Later, it’s nowhere near as good as 28 Days Later. I’ve also recently watched The Simpsons Movie, which was essentially just a feature-length episode. Delta Farce was pretty bad too.

I’m now going back to BT on October 1st thanks to my agency mucking me around and some idiotic contract length rules. At least it gives me a bit more holiday, but has meant expensive ferries and loss of two weeks pay. I’ve booked my ferry home for Xmas, going to see Nanny for the weekend of her birthday too.

I’ve not posted in a while.

Yesterday M&D were fumigating their house so came over to visit me. We had steak and chips with whitebait starter and spotted dick desert.

The shell is coming along nicely – the two floors are finished and the stairs are up. I’ve got a bit more staining to do and we’re going to put in a false wall or two and doors at the top of the stairs soon. The walls are going to be crepi’ed and wood surrounds added to run electricity wires (and CAT5e!) around.

I’ve finished setting up my CentOS5 fileserver today. After getting printing/scanning working, I’ve plugged in the extra SATA drives (for a total of 830Gb of storage!) and got Apache serving up the rsync’ed YUM mirrors. NFS/Samba are sharing the drives between Linux/Windows and Xbox Media Centre. I even installed VMWare and a copy of Win2003.

I’m testing temperatures in the case tonight as the HSF is bloody noisy at 5400rpm, hopefully it will stay cool at 3400rpm, which is pretty quiet, the case and PSU have 120mm fans, so they’re almost silent. So far the lower RPM has only raised the CPU/case temps by 1C.