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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

1000th Post

Its seems probably fitting that as I type these words, that there is quite a lot going on, most good, some mediocre and thankfully nothing really bad. The main one is, subject to all the paperwork/surveys being completed, is the impending house move. Currently the loft is boxed up, with nothing but my PC equipment/junk remaining. The remainder of the flat is mostly small ornaments and chuffing great lumps of furniture, the latter of which will travel as is.

We now have our broadband connection back to its full capacity after two minor problems. The first being that an unlimited service, is apparently still subject to a fair use policy, and 50GB per month is apparently fair use. Interestingly, if that were equated to an uncompressed DVD I purchased from the shop, that would be what, 12, 13 movies. So apparently streaming movies over the Internet as a replacement for my TV isn't quite possible, and being restricted to 128kps is not fun. How did I ever survice on dial up. The second problem was that my adsl router died, and I had to get a new one. If/when we move, I might look to another provider but demon have been pretty good so we'll see.

Work is pootling along, although its becoming increasingly confrontational with other departments. The main Estates department don't seem to grasp it isn't possible to just move fibres and duct work at the click of the fingers. Nor, as we found out last week, think to inform us when either a building is being vacated, or, and this is a great one, that access to a disaster recovery room is being closed as they remove the concrete floor. Even better that they then use pneumatic equipment which not only sets of the motion alarms in the walls, but screws up equipment and don't see why its there fault.

I myself am now fed up with the summer sun streaming through the blinds and waking me up at 5. I look forward to thick curtains. This obviously isn't helped by continually staying up to feed my growing addicition to American shows such as the CSI(s), Law & Order(s), Shark...

And thats about it really. Today I hope to do some tidying, take pics of my finished bathroom, wait for my another 500GB drive to arrive. Perhaps go shopping, and generally relax and try and shake this cold I have. Tomorrow we have a Christening down on the coast and then its playtime in the park with uni people. Monday will be spend wishing the sun wasn't so bright I suspect.

Enjoy yourselves. :)

26 May 2007 6:19 | (1) comment | Things | Thoughts | site

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