Yesterday I went into town and got my bank stuff sorted – well kind of, my online banking now works but the debit card is going to take 3 months, now I’ve changed my address, so I’ll have to get my mail forwarded. I looked into HSBC’s new Euro account but it’s 13ukp a month fees. I got my hair cut – a grade two. Didn’t go to Brantano to look for sandals though, went to the pub for lunch and got a 20oz steak, ended up having most of it for supper though.

I’ve got “The Cold” coming, I can feel the beginnings of one Hell of a sore throat. Must be coming out in sympathy with the folks and Pip. Work was busy-ish today, Monday we’ve got some new kit to hack. Tuesday I’ve got to be on the road to Birmingham with the boss by 6:45am, so I think I’ll be taking a half day or something Wednesday. Just watched Lost 3.

Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.2, it seems to have made a lot of the 3rd-party plugins part of the default install now – like backup and widgets. I was looking at the new MacBook’s today, it seems they’re still a bit proprietary and not quite a regular x86 laptop, as Linux has various issues running on them – mainly down to the weird keyboard, one-button mouse and EFI instead of a proper BIOS, which also seems to effect the screen and bootloader.

I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday, I keep thinking it’s Wednesday or Thursday. I’ve just had a Bishop’s Finger dark ale, which was really nice, and the Wychwood Hobgoblin isn’t bad either. I’ve spent most of today trying to hack the Sun server again, I still can’t do it even with various combinations of rollover cable, straight RJ45, DB9 and DB25 adaptors. I even tried Hydra on the RSC prompt, but it was going to take about six months to get through my wordlist!

I’ve just watched Stranger Than Fiction, which was pretty weird, star-studded, and bloody good! It was a comedy, psychological “thriller” and love story all in one. Work was busy today, I had a few audio’s, a face-to-face meeting and some follow-up work to do as well as trying to hack into a couple of Sun boxes. I also got some printing and posting of accounts done. The weather’s still awful, raining all day and very grim looking skies.