Wireless
Thanks to the efforts of Linuxant, I now have my wireless card running under Linux. The whole operation was surprisingly easy, and appears to be working quite well. I haven't yet investigated the range of our dinky AP, but it happily reaches any spot on the property, which is excellent. I imagine when connected to an 18dBi antenna it will reach quite a bit further.

Wireless
I'm writing this from the lawn of a client during my lunchbreak. They're a University in Melbourne, and have a number of 802.11b antennas mounted around the campus. The main trick is figuring out where they are.

Unfortunately, my lunch break is over, so this entry is very short.

Losing Weight
After being weighed every time I donate blood, and noticing the steady upward trend on my weight every time I visit, as well as my pants being a little bit tight, I've decided to reverse the trend. This isn't a matter of great importance, I'm right in the middle of the healthy weight range, instead it's a way of providing support to Jacinta (who's also losing weight), and saving myself from having to endure the dullness of purchasing new clothes.

A couple of weeks ago I was 71.5kg, now I'm 70.0kg. My goal is to end up back at around 65kg, as that was my weight a couple of years ago, as well as still being comfortably within the healthy weight range. Five less kilos also makes bicycling (particularly hill-climbing), and rock-climbing easier.

Dead Machines
Looks like the machine with the dead power-supply ended up damaging its mobo as well. While the machine is running again, it's very unstable, often rebooting with no good reason whatsoever. Looks like I'll need to be getting some more hardware. AFAIK Ian has sold off all his old PCs, so I may have to use another source.

Apricots
Had a large branch drop off our apricot tree the other day. This is the second time in three years. I suspect we'll have to prune the tree rather than have it lose large bits every time it produces a bumper crop.

Work
Yes, working on a Sunday. I don't want to think about work, but I am. Very much looking forward to the break I'm getting in a few months time.

Dead machines
Two dead machines in two days. The first killed by a bad PCI card, the second killed by its power supply dying a horrible death.

We're not particularly concerned about either. Sure, they need to be resurrected, but either were critical, and any important data they had was on the main fileserver.

New laptop is fun.