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Freedom Loving Scientist

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This site contains various pieces of writing across my various interests, and spanning several years. You can fork this site on github if you wish.

Scratching Itches

Scratching Itches
The POP server at work has broken, and has made my mail inaccessible with it. Even though it's the weekend, I've diagnosed the problem and am seriously considering ringing up Ian (or some other nice systems person) to tell them to install an emergency patch so that I can read my mail using mutt again.
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Weekend

Weekend
Nice long day. Pottered around in the garden and grazed a bit. Soil life looks very happy and I found a couple of unexpected carrots growing which I munched upon. Moved lots of silverbeet out of stasis (the cold pots in the corner) to the main bed where it's warm. Should keep me in leafy greens for some time.

Inspected the house in Coburg again, and this time brought along Jacinta's father as well to see if he could spot things we didn't. All up the house is indeed looking promising, although I'm somewhat concerned that a Melbourne Water service-hatch that is supposed to exist cannot be found. Will be chasing this with the relevant authorities.

Home proxy-server has a new hard-drive after I was left with a couple spare after emergency upgrades the other weekend.

Finance::Quote
Oh goodness! I have a couple of hours to work on Open Source. Going to try and squeeze out that long overdue release.

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Support Fun

Support Fun
Today the support team had one of the best customer complaints in a while. They complained that the load on the proxy server was too low. :)

Work
Another week over. Many changes. Dancer is leaving the end of next week, and I've rather surprisingly decided to take the role of designing and helping to implement a new stats system. I'm also really going to be moving to a nine-day fortnight this time.

House
The nice house near Ian and Sofie is subject to flooding, but we're not sure what type of flooding. Checking up with Melbourne water and looking for signs of flood damage tomorrow.

Games
Gamma on my S3 Virge is very low, and there seems to be NO way to change it. This makes playing X-COM very dark. Too dark. Not happy.

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Bicycles

Bicycles
The Victoria police will be stamping identification numbers into bicycle frames at University, in order to assist with recovering your bike should it ever get stolen. The mail I have says "bring your driver's license". I wonder if I'm the only one who finds this ironic?
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Weekend

Weekend
Gwen's left back for Ballarat, and shall not be returning. She's going to be spending a bit of time there before heading off to Perth.

Replaced ai-chan's hard-drive with one that doesn't make noises like it's about to fall apart. The old drive is due to be placed in the proxy box to relieve the growing shortage of space there.

Spent lots of time fiddling with hardware. I normally play X-COM on Gwen's machine, but since she's taken it with I've had to re-install Windows on ai-chan. I've never actually noticed that my (fairly cheap) monitor has lost so much brightness over the years until now. At least it doesn't lose colours like Gwen's one did.

Windows did something to my SCSI card so that it can no longer be used under Linux. I wish I knew what, I miss my SCSI CD-ROM.

Finance::Quote
No time for open-source this weekend, unfortunately. Going to have to see if I can squeeze it into a weeknight somewhere.

Bike
Biscuit has a flat tyre. Must fix.

CVS
If at first it looks like it's broken, make sure you have the correct version checked out of the repository. It saves lots of time bug-hunting.

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