Woo:- New Saxophone is lovely, it's coming back remarkably quickly, I need to build up my diaphragm(that spelling looks odd) again, I was struggling with some of the longer phrases. Odd how I now warm up with scales and arpeggios, when I never bothered before ( Read more... )

I've been rather busy over the last six months, and many new toys have appeared in the house, not none as long-awaited, nor as fun as the one I picked up from down south over the weekend ( Read more... )

Well, my photographs are up HERE, some of them I quite like. they do actually have EXIF information embedded in them, except Apache::Gallery isn't picking up on that fact, I blame Aperture, as i've not tweaked any of the setting on the Gallery ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd share one of my most recent photos with you, it's the current desktop image on my laptop.


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Last went to the John Lewis in the Trafford Centre to do that whole wedding-list thing, came away quite pleased, we actually managed to get around 80-90% of the things we wanted. And apart from all of the normal crockery and cuttlery, we've bought ourselves a new TV, Shiny Sony kit, we likes. Unfortunately my current Hi-Fi stand isn't any where ( Read more... )

Well, it's been nearly 2 weeks since I changed my marital status, and things are back to normal. To be honest, they were pretty much back to normal on Monday, what a brain numbing statement. It does mean that May is now over and done with. May was all-go in the house, both myself and my wife landed ourselves new jobs (mine early-mid May, her monday ( Read more... )

Wooh, rarr, yaaaaa. Arrggh, *spit*, yummm, ooo, *snore ( Read more... )

I apologise in advance for the length of this post, been rather busy recently ( Read more... )

Woo, hit my first milestone in an effort to fit into my wedding suit.. this morning I weighed 17st 13lb :) (approx 114kg)

This weekend I've managed to accomplish quite a major task in my home server aggregation to-do list. It was hastened due to the failure of the primary hdd in my dev box. I'm now running a Gentoo Dom0 on a dual Duron 1700, 512mb, 2x20gig seagate drives. Currently i've got 2 DomUs, both running as LVM snapshots from Gentoo master image, one will be ( Read more... )