The site and other sites hosted here as you may have noticed, has been down for an extended period.
Christmas
was great, Geoffrey had lots of fun playing with his cousin Jack,
Isabelle and Holly, running around as best he could. He has started to
vocalise himself, but not in any way that we can yet understand. He
seems very annoyed and repeats himself often. He has even started to
shrug in his own cute little way.
There was a problem with the
powersupply on my server which temporarily took two of the discs in my
raid 5 array offline, taking down the array, rather than recover the
minimal backups to it, in hope of recovering some of the data from the
array I had to build a new hard drive storage case for r2d2, thus the
time gap.
All back and good though. Lessons learnt and server better than it was before.
I
recently attended the open day of the Linux Australia conference and
helped out on the Ubuntu-AU stand. It was lots of fun, got to play
around with some immersive computer technology, and got to play with the
One Laptop per Child laptop... very cool.
Got to meet some people I have only heard about. Like
Theodore Ts'o;one of the main designers of the ext3 file system, used fairly heavily in linux and I met
Jono Bacon; One of the incredibly funny stars of
LugRadio
possibly the funniest audio shows I have heard since the GoonShow. He
is also an avid free-software advocate, author and employed member of
Canonical: Ubuntu's parent company. It was a great day and has pushed me
to get some more stuff done here and in the community. A lot of my
projects I had on hold have been started up this week, Stu and MrTeeny
are being built, and I intend to try and run an Ubuntu stand at a local
computer fair to get the word out.
So all in all it has been a busy while since I last posted. Peace out all.
