Yesterday was blurreh, the day before even more so. So Monday I got home at a sensible time, plugged in my shiny glowey solar powered balls and moved bits of flat about. I’m now probably going to wire Pixel instead of wifiing it, and then when mogs gets his shiny G4 I’ll give him the MIMO card so he can be unwired at 100mbps. I’m also considering buying a gig switch if I can find one cheap enough and a gig card for novak. Then I can have a stupidlyfuckingfast server connection Didn’t do a whole lot on Monday evening other than poke bits of PC around. The wireless access point is now in my bedroom (centre of the flat) so both myself and TJ should get decent connections (but as I said, I may wire Pixel as the wifi has a 4 port switch in it too). Phone’s also been moved to the bedroom in an attempt to minimise the amount of things that could be possibly wrong with the phone line. Bed at a sensible time on Monday night. Up Tuesday, cycling to work I turned off Shaftsbury Avenue as a woman walked off the pavement out in front of me without looking. I moved right so if she’d have carried on walking I’d have missed her, but no, she saw me, stopped like a startled rabbit and then as I almost hit her, swore and slapped me on the back as I swerved around her. The fucking cheek. Some people really do deserve to be run over. Someone bought my 11 Babylon 5 VHSs on eBay, so I popped out at lunch to buy a hyooj box to post them in and some bubblewrap to cover them in. Left it in the office as I figured taking it home just to put VHSs in it and then bringing it back to work again would be silly. Broke various things at work (woops) and then headed back home again for a quiet night in front of the telly. Hah! I cunningly got to thinking about my laptop yesterday afternoon, decided I’d see if there were any bits on eBay for it. And lo! I was rewarded with a maintenance manual for £1.45. So, PDF in figurative hand I set about destroying lazarus with a dodgy screwdriver. 5 minutes later, I’ve got a working screen again. I’ve missed my laptop, more than I realised. So spent the evening updating it, sitting online and generally being geeky. There was a small square of foam, see. It’d become wedged under the laptop lid switch, between the insides and the LED cover, keeping the switch pressed down. So the laptop, which helpfully turns off its backlight whenever the lid is closed, was in perpetual darkness. Dinner of chicken and rice followed by bed after midnight at some point, a very happy bunny. Mostly anyways. Still having firewall configuration issues, so going to move Novak to .238 and fire to .233 and then reroute everything (or possibly use shorewall or something) correctly so it won’t die. Coz currently internal stuff can’t resolve anything using novak’s DNS server. And novak’s DNS server can’t reach the main servers either. And it’s all a leeetle screwy and bizarre. So tomorrow night I’ll move IP. Should give me something fun to do Tonight, well, I’m gonna geek again. Hopefully at least one of my new DVDs will have arrived Posted 11 VHSs for £7.50. Quite impressed with the price. Still looking on eBay for Compaq Evo N1020v bits. If I can find a damaged or dead one cheap then I can just nick the case, thus fixing my issues with there being a HUGE FUCKING CIGARETTE HOLE IN IT (ta bingowings) and cracks, dodgy screen, etc.