06:30 BSTWell good start to the day, last night I introduced a
plot twist in
the
pbem that I'm involved in and it seems to have stimulated
everybody's
imagination and there are lots of posts waiting for me to
read.
Unfortunately none of the
characters would have noticed anything amis
yet so the first email I read was a general
ratty complaint from the
GM to most of the group.
Oh well, off to read through the rest of the messages.
11:00 BST
M (one of the many
people who attended the "
Internet for
Complete Idiots" courses that
BluePrintVert and I ran) called up today. He has just been given
Internet Access and needed
another lesson on how to use it. Vert answered the '
phone (thankfully because if it had been me I would have
screamed) and walked him through the basics (again). Notable quote "So is this a website?
What does it do?" about www.
bbc.co.
uk
After the call we came to the conclusion that
he slept through our very interesting presentations
We now have a
bet on whether he will be able to cope with the concept of a
firewall password.
Andy is
29 today so in the tradition of this company he provided lots of
cake. Helping myself to a
donut I returned to my
office, one bite revealed it to me a
toffee donut - not
jam! As I can not stand
toffee donuts from
Tesco I was forced to
discard it
where nobody could see.
People in the office are beginning to find out about this diary, this is not a good thing and I am beginning to regret announcing K?s involvement in Flame FM at the
departmental meeting, he has no
sympathy.
Getting to grips with
PHP for the
database, today I managed to implement some
code to
authenticate users. Of course when I get home I have to carry on with
Perl, I really need to get to grips with it create some sort of indexing for my UFED Logs site.
12:40 BST
I
love insurance, it isn't going to cost me a
penny to get my
cell phone repaired (the flip down bit looks like it will break off sometime this week). I just have to wait until the
Pocket Phone Shop has a spare
phone to lend me while mine gets sent off.
15:00 BST
Well, it looks like I am off to
Birmingham tomorrow. One of the
servers that I built is becoming unreliable and needs fixing (it had to be the
PDC didn't it?). While the job is dull as dishwater, it does mean I get to work nearly an hour of
overtime as I have to leave so early, and I get paid for spending four hours sitting in a
car reading and listening to
CDs.
15:40 BST
Well one of our
remote servers has
stopped responding, it refuses to even accept a
ping. Our current best guess is that becuase E started the
backup in the middle of the day, it is just
too busy to recieve any other
network traffic. We'll find out for sure when the backup is finished.
19:00 BST
I got home a little
later then usual as the
bus driver took a wrong turn and we went about half a mile out of our way. He didn't
charge us extra through.
The
server was easy to
fix, just a matter of plugging the network cable back in, E had kicked it out by accident.
Dad seems to have
lost some very important paperwork that I need last week, I hope I can make do without it.