We’ve got some good weather ahead for a few days, it’s bloody hot today already at 10am! I’ll be going over to M&D’s to clean the pool later! We’re all going out for lunch today, then everyone’s coming over to my place to watch the fireworks tonight. Yesterday M&D and I went shopping for a few bits’n’bobs and ended up being out for five hours, doesn’t time fly here?! The blog and other the-jedi.

I’m itching a bit from the sunburn from going to the racing yesterday. It was very good – with GT (Dodge Viper, Porsche 911, Ferrari, Aston Martin and some Corvettes), Clio and some weird “green diesel” cars. It was a nice drive too, and we saw some bloke bungie jumping off a viaduct. We came home and jumped in the pool. I sorted out my crates in the loft today, I’ve found that a).

I got my printer/scanner working today and I got my new laser printer working too – it’s got a very nice output quality, although build-wise it looks a big budget, it even has a Linux admin program, although I just use the CUPS web frontend. I’ve got it shared to my desktop machine from my fileserver – it seems you need to add the ServerName directive to /etc/cups/clients.conf now, which I’m sure I’ve not done previously, usually other Linux machines just see published printers, and you can share them to Windows using Samba.

I’m enjoying being back home in France. I’ve mostly unpacked now, I’ve got to sort out my loft sometime. Clio and Brandy the cats have been entertaining – Brandy has been following me around like a shadow and perching on my shoulder. Clio pops in through the catflap every now and then. Mum & Dad came over today to help me do some gardening and I cooked pizza and chips (well Mum did most of it!

I’ve got my Xbox setup to play movies and music now. It’s connecting to my fileserver wirelessly using the Bufallo and OpenWRT in client-mode. 54g seems to be fast enough for MPEG/WMV/XviD/DivX/MP3, but nowhere near enough to backup games across the LAN, so I’ve still got my damn long piece of CAT5e going to my GigE switch upstairs for that! I’ve got XMBC2 installed and added the Youtube2 plugin, so can play movies across the internet too, as well as connect to streaming radio stations like Shoutcast.