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!
Here’s my favourite quote of the week:
A skirt on something built like a brick
The was from the George delivery driver on Tuesday, and we were talking about the new trailers.
It started off with the driver slagging off about how slow the tail lift is, and then it moved on to the skirt around the trailer.
I mentioned that it was probably to help with aerodynamics, and the driver replied, “a skirt on something built like a brick”
In the end, the best thing about the new trailers was the magnet on the back of the control box!
Hey! The things you talk about while waiting for a tail lift to lower!
To be honest, there hasn’t been much happening!
Apart from the fact building work has begun in the part of the garden we sold last year.
It is now day 32, and it doesn’t look much different to what it did last week.
At the moment there is two people on site, and they seem to be doing some work, probably building up the level of the base ready for the flooring, but there is a six foot wall up stopping us from seeing what’s going on!
To get a better view we need to go along the road at the top, I’ll try that on Sunday when no one is on site and get some photo’s uploaded to Flickr.
On Sunday I went karting at SupaKart in Newport with a few mates from work. We raced in the mini endurance, which was a 10 minute qualifying race followed by a half hour non stop race.
I went out onto the track in 9th place, got placed 6th on the grid after qualifying, and finished the race 5th.
There is no photo’s as we were all racing, but there is a video of the podium on Facebook though.
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.
Alright, so the sudden flurry of posts at the start of the month soon died out! Lol!
But why the sudden activity, and then nothing?
I was going to try and start posting more often, not long posts, just short ones, little snippets of information and short stories about nothing in particular.
Well, I had two in mind, but as always, I just never got around to it! Lol!
Not much has happened, the only two things that I can think of is that my girlfriends oldest brother became a dad, they called him Liam and he was born on the 6th of August.
The other is that I have started working on a new site style, and seeing as I have a week off I haven’t touched it! Lol!
It’s in the same style as the current style, but I’m going to rearrange where the sub menu’s appear, and the layout of posts and comments. This will mainly affect the blog side of my site, but I might bring some of the changes into other areas of my site.
The timing belt on my car broke on the way to work this morning, it happened just as I was going on to the slip road off the motorway.
I managed to get the car on to a lay-by, and then I had walk the rest of the way to work – it wasn’t that far.
Dad then towed my car to his work place to have a look at it, he phoned me to tell me what was wrong.
He got a new belt and fitted it, but the engine won’t start again, it’s knackered.
Thats the end of the road for my car, and I don’t have any photo’s of it!
Its been a bad start to this week, I had some sort of stomach bug on Monday, I woke up not feeling quite on top of the world.
At about lunch time I was sick, sorry if any ones eating, I had only eaten cereal for breakfast that morning, and had drunk some water, so it must of been something I ate the previous day, but I have no idea what caused it.
And then I went to work on Tuesday, I was still feeling rough, but I thought it was better to be doing something rather than sitting around at home all day thinking about it.
I’m feeling much better now, and still with a computer in pieces! Lol!
Till next time
Keep healthy!
For some strange reason the past month has been a bit of a slowdown time for me, I don’t know what it is, but I just cant seem to be able to get into anything, or do anything!
Take this blog as an example, the last time I posted was the 4th of February, two weeks since the post before.
In those three weeks I have done practically nothing, even though I have added a couple to plugins to my blog, but that’s just about it.
Linux Links is at a stand still.
The only things I do do regularly is feel tired, and work!
And its valentines this week, and I haven’t got my girlfriend anything
I’ve got this week off work, so its a good time to recharge my batteries, and build my computer!
Hopefully I’ll be back to my ways next week
Till next time, if I don’t fall asleep!
The title just about sums up what I have been doing for the last three weeks since my last post, but more precisely describes what I did on Sunday!
I have a history list as long as your arm, and I have no clue about what I was doing!
But I have signed up for Gravatar, and have finally reported that bug with WordPress.
During the past month I have managed to do more work on the next version of Linux Links, I have most of the update working, and I’m just working on the Tag page. The next section I’ll be working on will be Search.
I am also working on the problem of how to make short unique URL’s similar to tinyurl.com
I’m thinking maybe put the md5 hash in a matrix table and add up every row and column, and then use that to make up some letters.
Yes, as you’ve probably guessed, I have no idea on how to go about it, and I don’t want to just use the id of the URL in the database
Other than that, nothing much has been happening, work is still the same, we’re starting to get in a lot of Easter eggs, which seem to magically disappear, must be due to the price! And there was me thinking that people would be boycotting Cadbury chocolate and not buying it!
Untill the next time
Enjoy your Easter Egg!
Edit: I have just been told that the price of Easter eggs in ASDA have gone back up to their original price.
I have also just installed the WordPress pluginWP_MonsterID, and have edited the blog theme, so if you are signed up to Gravator your avatar will show up, otherwise you get a random monster!
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