Kathy and I went to Norwich Register Office yesterday to confirm the date for our wedding and show them our various documents (proof of age, address etc). All very scary, especially the way it seemed to be a test to about whether we knew each other or not (checking about middle names, age, whether we'd been married before with each of us while the other was out of the room). I mean, it's still months off, it's not like we're rushing into this. And the proof of address was our council tax bill with both our names on it.

Anyway. It looks like we're actually really going to get married. Gulp.

I recently started using workrave, mainly because my cow-orkers have both suffered from RSI to some degree or other and I thought prevention might be better than cure. However I'm finding it really fucking annoying. I do not cope well with interruptions when I'm in the middle of something and it ends up really pissing me off.

I'm sure it's all a good idea and everything, but I've just found myself switching it into quiet mode so I can actually get some work done without having my flow of concentration constantly broken.

How do people find the time to read a daily paper? Kathy and I often end up buying a Sunday paper, and I find it takes me the entire week to read it all. Between the main section, the Review bit, the magazine, the random bits that change weekly and so on, it's quite a considerable amount to read. I know daily papers tend to have less sections, but even when we end up with one of those it takes me a while to get through it all. And it's not like I'm a slow reader. Do other people just have more time than me? Can I have some?

I shaved my sides a week or two ago, returning my face to its normal (well, as normal as it gets) goateed self. However I remember why I stopped shaving for winter now. If you shave, you have to do it every day. Otherwise you just look like someone who can't be bothered shaving, and while that might be because it's true, why not just not bother at all? I'm not really convinced about the wisdom in applying a sharp blade to my face early in the morning either. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get used to it again soon enough.

Earlier this week my Amstrad E3 2.6 patch was accepted into the linux-omap tree. This is pretty cool; I'm a big believer in pushing changes to upstream where possible and thus it's great when they take them.

I'd thought that once this base patch was in it would be a simple matter of cleaning up my patches for the LCD, USB, keymap and NAND support, ready for submission. I have all of these working fine on my 2.6.15 tree, so it should have been easy, right? Of course not. I've spent most of the week (well, the bits I wasn't working or doing late night router upgrades) trying to solve the ohci: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ. problem. No, I know it's not the wrong IRQ. It works fine with 2.4 and 2.6.15. Gah.

What's worse is Google only showed up people having the same issue; a number apparently x86 with ACPI being suggested as the culprit, but there were a few that were also with the OMAP5910 (the E3's processor). The most recent from Ladis but he's already turned up on #emailer to ask me how I'd got it working in 2.6.15.

Anyway, I think I've finally solved it (the 5910 needs the local bus clock enabled for USB according to the datasheet and this wasn't being done), though I'm waiting to see if my solution works for anyone else before deciding it's a success. Assuming it does I can actually start to look at getting the other bits ready too; I think the LCD stuff has changed a bit and I dread to think what the MTD guys are going to say about my attempts at a driver.