Stuart Herbert

Yuck … that was a week to forget. I’ve been ill with the flu, it’s only the second week into my recovery from a broken toe, my GPS device lost all its waypoints (and it isn’t backed up because of a problem with Windows grrr) and the car’s off the road until I get it into the dealer to have it fixed – the first real breakdown since I bought the car three years ago. I need to get it fixed by Thursday if I can.

I didn’t see much of Saturday either … I pretty much slept right through the day, and didn’t wake up until Sunday. I’ve been fine today, fortunately, although my appetite’s gone again

On the plus side, I’ve finished merging the various backups of my photo archive into a single copy, which now sits on Moby (my paranoid fileserver). I’m missing one photo that I care about, which (fingers crossed) is sat on my PC at the office. I’ve shutdown my own hosted gallery, and moved everything up to Flickr. I tried geotagging my photos, but Yahoo Maps just doesn’t have detailed enough data for the UK to make it worth bothering with.

I’ve also finished migrating my personal sites over to a Gentoo LAMP Server install. Ran into one serious problem, but otherwise everything’s up and running. I’ll blog more about that on my Gentoo blog later in the week.

The builders are done, and it’s very surprising how much warmer the back of the house is now. That wasn’t something we were expecting at all. The back of the house is a modern brick extension (as in the last twenty years or so), and the rooms out there have always felt the cold more than the rest of the house (which is made from stone). I’ve cleaned out the downstairs light switch that’d filled up with gunk from the building work, so now we have two usable bathrooms once more (yay).

Daylight saving time is over … which means it gets dark before we leave the office on an evening. Oh joy.

One of the great things about this holiday is Kristi introducing me to Full Metal Alchemist (no link to the official site; it’s flash-heavy, and doesn’t render for me in Firefox). She spent the summer collecting all the DVDs that are currently out (the first 8 disks are out over here in the UK), and it’s been great to just sit around in the cottage watching them all.

Rapture TV’s currently showing the series too, so we should get to see all the episodes on there whilst waiting for the remaining DVDs to be released over here.

If you haven’t seen Full Metal Alchemist, and you enjoy Japanese anime, try and find the time to catch an episode or two.