Last night was quite fun. James, Jenni and myself went to Tim's 'I-might-be-dumped-but-I-still-have-loads-of-mates' party. A fair bit of booze and Nagi drunk. Great fun (!).

Got back about 1am and dropped straight off to sleep. Apparently Jennie got up in the night and coded away on her Rentacoder stuff for a few hours and I totally didn't realise. Probably explains why I slept so well :).

Just finished installing some nice traffic monitoring stuff on Jennie's firewall box. This coupled with her upgrading the house to 1Mbit broadband means the bandwidth hogs should be named and shamed soon :).

Been doing a few odd jobs today related to MCR website, etc. No supervision this afternoon either (yay cancellations!). Hence I'm working from home finishing The Paper.

Terrible headache last night due to long wranglings with the MCR box. Got it booting off the read only FS in the end (thank god) although the solution is literally[1] a sticking plaster over the FS. I spent a long time tracking down where pgp writes its temporary files so I could special-case them. I'm pretty sure its all up and working now. Just need to find a way to get NoCatAuth to log via syslog, all logging is redirected to another box, and I can start hardening it.

Gah my head hurts so much! I've been really tired recently and always appear to be sleeping. Getting into work will probably help though. Tasks for today -- work on the (ever present) paper and e-mail supervisees.

The hardware for the MCR router box arrived today. Its a lovely little embedded PC + wireless NIC that I've been spending most of today setting up.

Currently its netbooting into a nice little kernel I compiled + a customised Debian image built from a little script. I'm using NoCatAuth for the WiFi stuff and a good thing it is too.

Woohoo! I can breathe again. A nice relaxing Monday gave me the ability to think straight once more. Also went to improv today. Was quite funny although all of us seem to have lost our initial zeal. I think we're a lot better when we have something to work towards.

Have ordered the stuff for the embedded MCR wifi box. Been playing around attempting to get something bootable onto my USB stick except I can panic the kernel quite repeatably when I insert it. Damn 2.6 :).

Woot! Jennie bless her little cotton socks got me a /. subscription out of the DM donations. I've been having fun pondering the stories from the mysterious future.

Just come back from a strange improv practise in Alex W's room. Only myself, Jennie, Richard and Alex were there and we were all feeling a little below par so we decided to play Crossbows and Catapults instead and much fun was had by all. Saw James Ross and his parents (I presume) in town so that probably explains at least his absence.

Urgle. Up early this morning and it hurts. Couldn't sleep last night 'cos of coughing etc so feeling really knackered.

On the plus side I was exceptionally 1337 with the bus this morning so not too long standing in the cold.

I'm really tempted to go back to bed though.

Gah! Feeling really bunged up today. Printed out my paper to scribble on so feeling a little more organised than usual. Supervising at 5 this afternoon(!) so no rest for me then :(.

I seriously want to just go to bed at the moment so come six o'clock I'm definately going home for a snooze.

Damn girlfriends with their illnesses :).

Just finished having Hall. The food was pretty poor tonight, big slab of fatty Lamb -- which I don't like at the best of times. Had a good chat with some people though. Decided to pop into town to get something bad for me to eat and meet Jennie.

Big hug later, and I'm sitting in her living room typing away on my lappy (once I fixed the firewall's DHCP server to give the right DNS servers over Airport).

Time to be terribly English and get a nice cup of tea :).

Well the Iceberg were good as ever last night. Jennie and I agree that its a bit wierd seeing them on stage since, as they are so polished, they are just the same as in workshops. The ICE guys OTOH (the 'amateur' amateur improv group) which Jennie and I are with are still rookies so we get 15 times better when actually on stage.

OK well Jennie, my dearest girlfriend, was bickering on at me last night to update/start my blog. Opposed as I am to blogger/livejournal and friends, I suppose /.'s Journal system may be the way forward. Comments are disabled for the moment for no other reason that I'm a nasty boring old fart :). Update: OK, I'm not such a fart now, comments enabled.