Diary October 2002
- Monday 28
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Cold almost gone. UPS finally arrived.
- Sunday 27
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Got out of bed just long enough to go see XXX. Very good film.
- Saturday 26
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The cold, having gone away all week, is back with a vengeance. Washed
car. Regretted it.
- Friday 25
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Took the afternoon off to recover. Had a bloke come round to look at
the lawn. He reckoned it would cost about 3 grand to fix. Ho
hum.
- Monday 21 - Thursday 24
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On a course (ISEB Software Testing thing). Unfortunately, also trying
to do my job, so working 12 hour days. Course was a complete
waste of time anyway. Grr.
- Sunday 20
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Cold got worse rather than better. Didn't bother getting up until late
afternoon. Played with Tommy again, watched TV, went back to
bed.
- Saturday 19
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Got a bugger of a cold. Washed car. Attempted to get webcam working
with no success at all. Played with housemate's Tommy AFX (slot
cars). Fixed the extractor fan in the basement.
- Friday 18
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Fairly boring day, all things considered. Worked, ate, watched TV, went
to band (got into a rather strange argument about what a double
sharp means in a flat key), slept. Ho hum.
- Thursday 17
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Got another email from the RIPng guy saying all works. But it looks
like the FreeBSD "sendto: Invalid argument" fix broke
it an all the FreeBSD boxes it used to work on. AARGH!
- Wednesday 16
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Spent all day at work trying to make a shell script to find duplicate
pieces of XML go faster. Got the estimated run time down from
40 years to 2 days, which can't be bad. Not what I'd call
terribly exciting though. Sent somebody a patch to fix Sendip's
ripng support, and got a mail back saying the patch didn't apply
cleanly. Which is odd. Very odd.
- Tuesday 15
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Discovered that RIPng doesn't work the way I guessed it did, and so
SendIP's RIPng support is totally useless.
- Monday 14
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The first of the SendIP emails started to turn up. Fortunately, no
genuine problems yet. One person using sendip-2.1 on Solaris
found it wouldn't compile but their email came from a
nonexistant address. One on FreeBSD forgot to use gmake. Why
can't people read readmes?
- Sunday 13
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Got up early to watch the GP. Shouldn't've bothered. Rained all day,
spent most of it browsing random web sites and being totally
unproductive. Tried 2.5.41 with no success.
- Saturday 12
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Spent all morning cleaning the car. It got covered in squished bugs
last weekend, and then parked under a tree on Thursday. Still,
it all came off in the end. Oil was very slightly lower than
last time I checked, but that might just mean the ground is a
bit slopy. Watched qualifying fomr Japan, not that it was
terribly exciting. Finally, at long long last, got around to
releasing sendip-2.2, well behind schedule. Prepare for the
emails to begin flooding... Oh, and, erm, got around to
updating my diary for the first time in ages.
- Sunday 6
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Went to see Grimethorpe Colliery Band concert in Cheltenham town hall.
Very good concert. Nice drive there and back too except
Swindon.
Mike
Last modified: Mon Oct 28 19:09:45 GMT 2002