Got called out last night because most of our services stopped letting people in ( Read more... )

A month or so back I was supposed to be going on a Red Hat training course in London (RHS429) unfortunately this got cancelled as only 2 people had registered.  (They need 4 to make it financially viable)

I was then booked onto the next one, in Farnborough this time, which was supposed to be next week.  Didn't get the cancellation notice because of ( Read more... )

In the middle of writing some perl test cases for code I've been writing (Trying to avoid writing the rest of the documentation)

Failed 4/15 test scripts, 73.33% okay. -2/719 subtests failed, 100.28% okay.

Passing on the amusement...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/

Note to self, do not ask a mathematician to do arithmetic "31+31+31=61" and that came from someone with a PHD in Maths...

There's a certain irony to be found in the Tory's latest campaign...

Vote for change. Vote Conservative.

Hmm so since I last posted...

• Past driving test!
• Acquired Car
• Been to Sundown
• Been playing with Spacewalk
• Discovered CentOS do some rather broken things with their build system... Two packages, same name, different signiture

Well I started learning to drive back in February, passed by theory test yesterday, got one question wrong (couldn't remember which hours it's illegal to sound your horn in a built up area)

Now to book the practical...

Con⋅sul⋅ta⋅tion  (kän′səl tā′s̸hən)

Noun

A process by which you waste the time of the people who will actually be affected, asking for their opinions, when in actuality you will just impose your will on them anyway.

I seem to have ended up in Belfast for 2 weeks as a lampie.

Flew out on Monday, unfortunately Shevek's post does far too good a job of describing how the first 3 days went. Last couple of days haevn't gone too badly, although we're being given naff all information about what's actually going to happen and when, when which makes life interesting ( Read more... )