Rants 2.0

What a shit day!

Just about everything broke – after last nights breaking of one of the air-con units in the server room, we set up a mobile unit and left the server doors open, managing to pipe the mobile unit’s heat pipe to a vent in the wall. Just had to put my coat back on so that looks like the air-con is fixed again!

Then Nate broke – he was being sick all night.

The client today went to witness a CIP of some of the vessels and the client froze (we tracked that down to one of the servers chucking a wobbly). Servers failing aren’t good at the best of times-but when they are witnessed by the client its even worse!

I’m now desperate for a coffee!! Had to bolt my lunch, I much prefer the longer lunch with a relaxing coffee and a natter!!

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So it was a tough drive up to Liverpool today. The goal posts have changed again, so all of the very disturbed work I did last week has been pretty much shelved – but that is to be expected.

Had a good chat with Lance from ADL though, he seems to have a good setup and some interesting things on the horizon.

One of the air-con units in the PCS room has packed up. It is amazing how quickly the room heats up when only one is working. I can’t imagine it will be much longer before the server alarms are kicking in on over-temperature though!!

Had some great email comms with Mark today-glad he’s back around (in the country) but sad that his obvious enjoyment of life in the US has come to an end (he wouldn’t have enjoyed it being any longer anyway!!) Must get a meet-up arranged.

Have been using the eeePC more than the MBP today as well. Was beginning to regret the purchase and thinking off-loading it, but its actually been very useful since I managed to get it hooked up to the fileserver at work and can get all of the latest documents to take out onto site. Its great for using the ’snags’ spreadsheet (as well as writing blog posts!!).

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Wow-how fast could he go if he’d kept the pedal down?

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This us the first real opportunity to sit down and watch the olympics. I always remember watching them, but with work this time it’s been difficult

I find the background stories of many of the athletes, particularly the ones from the UK truely inspiring and their motivation over 4 years for a few seconds of competition to win a piece of metal (and history) is humbling

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Watching the matrix again, enough said

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Its been a tough week at work, starting back after the holidays (I bet its a breeze compared to Mark though). Today has been one of those days where nothing goes well or without problems. There seems to be so many parallel tasks running at the moment that its har to dedicate any quality time to any of them. We have some colleagues from Germany over at the moment too so our time is being pulled it assist them too.

Having so much quality time with the family just recently has also meant that I’ve missed them more than usual this week. I can’t wait for the next holiday!

Had a good start back at the gym after the holidays and then my PT session. Managed to put some of that in practice and have had some emails from Andy regarding my (bad) eating habits! I feel really good about the whole thing at the moment so I need to ‘make hay while the sun shines’ and take advantage of my motivation. I have another PT session booked in a week or so to concerntrate on the Chest & Back supersets.

Another exciting event this week is Derby finally had a winning game of football, beating Lincoln 3-1. A bit hairy at times and they left it late to equalise, but a positive nevertheless.

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Enjoying the re-run of Long way round being repeated on BBC2 (after seeing quite a lot of the olympics, including Great Britains first gold medal).

Really please that Tasha returned safely from the NODA Summer school We will rock you event. Seems like a fantastic time was had by all and she made so many new friends. The photos look great and I’m looking forward to seeing the full length video. A real confidence boost.

I’ve got so much to do before work starts again tomorrow…

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Went to see WALL-E this afternoon with the kids. Thoroughly enjoyed that, as usual a brilliant production from the PIXAR studios. Thought that was quite a few little (almost subliminal) apple references in there, the iPod that he watches his movie clips on, the start up tone made after his solar charge and I thought that EVE in general just looked very mac!!!

It was a bit of a break from the normal plot lines too, plenty of ‘message’ undertone about the environment and human obesity.

We’ve had a really good day today and enjoyed each others company so much - brilliant. Rounded off by going for a reflexology session at Denise’s this evening, a few glasses of vino and I’m utterly chilled.

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Dad’s in charge week started proper today when we all caught the train into Nottingham to go and visit Nottingham Castle. We don’t get to us the train very much so it was quite the adventure.

The castle itself was a liitle disappointing (for the kids) as it was mostly art exhibitions and no mention of Robin Hood. Still it got us out of the house and it was an adventure. We will be knocking around for the next few days, but still have loads planned.

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So now that things have settled a little why are the apps crashing so often?? Just listening to MacBreak Weekly and I’m obviously not the only one suffering these issues. I guess that it must be down to the ‘phone’ taking priority control and it just boots the app out of RAM.

The apps that I’m using most at the moment (in no particular order) are

2 major frustrations that I have are I can’t for the life of me get the Apple Remote app to work. I can pair easily with my iTunes library, but it won’t connect to control. Bizarre. So after looking around on the web I discovered that my problem is down to the fact that my firewall settings (System Preferences > Security > Firewall) did not include the iTunesd application in the allowed list. Added and all is well with remote.  My other bugbear is that OmniFocus doesn’t always sync as I’d expect - although I think this may be down to me not controlling the desktop and remote apps properly.

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