It’s official, Christmas is over! I have seen the first Easter eggs!
I had thought they wouldn’t appear until Boxing Day, but no, it was today!
I had also thought it would be Cadbury Creme Eggs, but no, it was Cadbury Mini Eggs, and later on in the day Cadbury Caramel Bunnies and Maltesers Bunnies also made an appearance!
What’s next!
Has it really been a month since my last post!?
Since then and now, Christmas and then the New Year has been and gone. All the turkey has gone and the Christmas chocolates have been eaten, and the last few Christmas nibbles and pickles are still being shared around!
My sister has moved out and is renting a place with her boyfriend. We’ve not noticed much difference, because before she was hardly home anyway!
Last week my trusty 17 inch monitor gave up the ghost, so I had to make do with an old CRT while my new 19 inch wide screen monitor was delivered. Interestingly, the screen is just a little shorter than the old one, but boy, does the width make a difference! 1440×900 pixels baby!
Also, after a forced upgrade to my monitor, I also decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my operating system. I went from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10 in a matter of two days!
After going down the doomed upgrade current installation path, I then tried the old delete-it-and-install-a-fresh route, and it worked!
But like all new things there were teething problems, I would loose network connectivity if I tried to assign a static IP address, but I had no problems getting onto the Internet if I used a dynamic IP address. I found a solution on the Fedora forum, which didn’t work, but I did find a solution that works.
I had another problem with Firefox, or more specifically with Fast Dial. When getting a website preview, it would cause the whole system to just hang.
My problem with Pidgin was solved by setting my public IP address, or I could of solved it by configuring a STUN server, strange how this didn’t affect the last version!
I still haven’t been about to mount CD’s, but I’ll work on that when I get more time, I just need to edit the fstab file, I don’t know why it wasn’t set automatically!
Other than that its been great, KDE 4 looks and works great, I’m still getting used to the changes, the main menu set up is a little weird, but it’s cool!
I have a spare partition on the hard drive which I was going to install Windows XP, but I might install another distribution I was looking at, Foresight Linux.
I have also updated my website, last year in December I upgraded my installation of WordPress to 2.7, and moved a few things around so that (eventually) the whole website (will) run on WordPress. The only two pages not currently running on WordPress is links and photos.
I have also updated the design, but there’s still a couple of areas that I need to sort out, like the home page, comments and the footer, but, overall I think the design is all finished, it’s not a complete redesign, but I think that it improves the overall look and feel of my site.
The parts for my new computer arrived! It was like a second Christmas! Lol!
It was about 2pm when the van arrived. I’ve uploaded some photos onto Flickr and you can also see them on my site here
I’ve had a test fit of the PSU into the case to see if it fits, its a tight fit, but do-able!
I’m not yet ready to put it all together yet as i need to get a few other pieces first, namely a cooler for the processor, and a hard drive and some kind of optical drive (DVD/CD)
I’ll keep you posted on progress!
Till then, happy computing!
Christmas was alright! I didn’t get up until about 10, and then mum had to go out, so we didn’t get to open our presents till after dinner
This is what I got this year:
I think that maybe I should start shaving, as I am now building up a nice collection of aftershaves, and I don’t want to let them go to waste!
Thats it for this post now!
Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year
This time next week it’ll be Boxing day, and Christmas itself will be over for another year!
The past week has been quite busy at work, the warehouse has been in a complete and utter state, and still is!
We just keep on getting stock, and nights just keep on not working all of it! And not working any of the back stock!
As for Christmas shopping, I’ve very nearly finished, I just need to get my girlfriend one last thing and thats her finished!
The last thing to do is wrap it all, thats a job for Christmas eve night! Lol!
The Christmas card count has reached seven, two of them from relatives, and another two are made out to both me and my girlfriend!
I think thats just about it for now.
Until next time,
Merry Christmas
Tonight is my second Christmas meal, the first was last night which was the Grocery meal, tonight is the Warehouse/GM meal.
The meal last night was alright, they give out big portions of meat! And then I piled on the vegetables! I only just managed to finish it!
Before that there was a starter, I chose the soup, and for after I had the Christmas pudding.
The soup was alright, vegetable I think! But the Christmas pudding was only a small square on a big plate, and the piece I had was rock hard, I couldn’t even cut it with a knife!
Tonight I’m having the same, but I chose a different pudding, apple pie with custard!
I’ve done a bit of Christmas shopping, I managed to get something for everyone! But I’ve not entirely finished yet!
I’ve now got 15 minutes to get ready for the Christmas meal!
Till next time,
Merry Christmas
Its been two weeks since my last post, so whats been happening?
For a start I managed to get search working on Linux Links, so thats all well and good
I have also added a couple of other features to the site.
The first feature is being able to browse by hostname, unless two or more pages in the database come from the same host then there is no way to access it, and that’s deliberate!
The second feature is a status checker, which basically checks if the page can be accessed every day, and the results of that are displayed on the url page.
Its Sunday now, I started this post on Saturday but had to go out before finishing this post!
Now that it is December I’m working more hours at work. I am now working six days a week and have Mondays off.
That means that I’ve got Christmas eve and New Years eve off, so that’s a good thing!
It’s December which means that obviously I haven’t even started Christmas shopping yet!
And like usual I don’t have the foggiest what to get anyone!
Staying with the Christmas theme, one good point to working out in the warehouse is that I don’t get to listen to the endless Christmas songs repeated countless number of times throughout the day!
Also, I’ve got 2 Christmas meals to go to this year, the first on the eighth is the Grocery Christmas meal, and then on the ninth is the Warehouse and GM meal, at the same place!
Thats it for this week!
See you next time!
As promised yesterday, here is the twelve days of Christmas driving for ASDA as written by one of the home shopping colleagues
On the first day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
A van to replace AZP
On the second day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the third day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the fourth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the fifth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the sixth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the seventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the eighth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the ninth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the tenth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the eleventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
On the twelfth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Twelve days to recover,
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP
I’ve just got to finish of my sister, and get something for my dad and that’s it.
The only thing that would be left to do is wrap the presents!
What have I been doing since the last post?
Working mainly!
I had Sunday off, but that was because it was granddads 86th birthday on Saturday, and me, dad, and sister, and granddad (obviously) and auntie Sue went to the White Horse on the A38 just past Thornbury for a meal.
On Sunday morning me and dad went around the shops. Which was when I finished mums presents.
On Monday I worked. Luckily it was only in the morning, so I could still go out in the evening with my girlfriend.
For the next three of four days, until Friday, or Saturday, I will be working close to 12 hours a day!
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be doing a bit of Christmas shopping in the morning, so I wont be working 12 hours, but I will be working longer than my usual eight hours!
In the home shopping office someone has written out the twelve days of Christmas song, but changed it slightly!
Each verse starts with: On the n’th day of Christmas ASDA House sent to me….
I’ll try to get a copy of it and post it soon.
As for my Christmas theme…I wont be able to do the twelve days of Christmas header image after all, mainly due to the fact that I haven’t been able to have any time to make a start on them.
If I can manage to do at least the first three or four, then I will be able to make them up a couple of days in advance. But I cannot see myself being able to find the time to do even one!
As for the rest of the Christmas theme, I will put up the additional images, but not the banner, as I haven’t complete it yet.
I wonder what a couple of my New Year Resolutions will be….
Merry Christmas every one
Hooray!!!
Well okay, I went around the mall in Cribbs Causeway with my mum in the afternoon, and I brought a couple of presents for my girlfriend (read: *special* friend)
I was also picking up a couple of ideas for what to buy everyone else.
I think I have I know what to buy now. Its just a case of when I’m going to be able to have the time to do the shopping!
This morning, just before work!
In other news, I will get the images done for the Christmas theme, again I just need to find the time!
Gotta go shopping now
Bye for now!