Aug 29 2004
Mal’s Going To Hate Me…
Well, it’s been a long week.
Last weekend in Milan was wonderful. After a rocky start in the form of a 5 hour stopover in Beauvais airport on the way out, I eventually found Ciara. We had a lovely posh hotel to stay in which was quite affordable while Italy shuts down and goes on holiday during August.
During the week was rather uneventful, with the exception of Mal’s Surprise Birthday Party on Monday. It was a good night and everyone played “Give The Birthday Boy a Jack Daniels“… 
This weekend was something else. I was working in the Maths Dept yesterdy afternoon and evening installing Debian onto 3 Dead Rat servers. After a couple of issues kept cropping up when things were going well, I eventually got to go home at 03:00 last night.
Today, I finally did what I have been planning all summer. I bought myself a new laptop. but not just any laptop, a nice decent laptop.
I’m also getting my act together and building a proper file server for all my stuff and am getting a decent graphics card for my workstation, to replace it’s onboard Intel POS which is known to crap out randomly so I have to restart my workstation at inconvenient moments…
You might want testing/updates, not stable/updates. And you might want testing-proposed-updates as well…