Tim Crumpton

12:34 pm: Go go go
Most of my free time of late has been taken up with the Battery Vehicle Society, my own electric car project, or joining Mary on various social engagements.

Last night, for a change, I went on my own to the Manchester Go Club in central Manchester. Ccooke had introduced me to the game, but I have not played it often enough to get a good grip on the moves, mistakes, and particularly when to stop playing, so it was good to have a game with another beginner while an experienced player looked on, commenting as we went.

I hope I can afford the time to go regularly, but I am notoriously bad at keeping to engagements (and updating diaries, for instance) so we will see what happens.

This afternoon I am heading north to scatter Granny's ashes in Balintore, where Grandad was scattered 15 years ago. See you all next week.

11:51 pm: Jellyandicecream
Thursday will be my 35th birthday. To celebrate, I will be serving jelly and ice-cream from 19.45 at my house. Comment here or ring me or Mary if you're coming, so I'll know how much jelly to make.

01:24 am: Bloatware
I have been uploading CiviCRM for *checks* 2 HOURS now. What does it do with all those files?

Oh, hai. Happy new year

03:33 pm: Address book
I am trying to organise my address book in an electronic way that I (with my plain text mindset) and Mary (with her Windows Vista-Outlook outlook) will both be happy to use.

Vcard seems to be the standard I need, so I have just installed rolo to try out. Any other suggestions out there?

02:43 pm: NetworkManager on Intrepid Ibex
I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 earlier this month, and I discovered that autodetection of wireless networks had disappeared. This was quite disappointing as I was unable to use my laptop on recent trips to Kensington and Cardiff.

I have now learned that it was my own silly fault for leaving the following in my /etc/network/interfaces file:( Read more... )I shouldn't be allowed to use computers...

10:44 pm: keeping cron happy
I've been getting an email every week for 6 months saying:-
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
using 192.168.0.4 for ServerName

I finally got around to Googling the answer, and did this:-
sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

add the line:
ServerName localhost

then
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Hopefully that will fix it. Thank you ubuntuforums.

05:59 pm: Whoniversal appeal
I'm just back from a weekend in Cardiff with saintmaryuk, welshlad and tiggerbrasilf. We met lots of lovely people and heard many academic papers on various aspects of the Doctor Who universe. I even got to see a bit of the city. Big thanks to Melissa and her committee for organising the conference.

Back to work tomorrow for a one-day week, then I will be attempting to stuff 1.5 metric tonnes of Lithium into a Berlingo, in order to make it travel 300 miles between charges. Wish me luck.

11:35 pm: Next week
I will be rebuilding the Battery Vehicle Society website and forum on a new server.
This post is for me to hang notes on while I'm at it, in case they get lost.
Hello World!

08:37 am: Hardy heron
I did get back from Belize, in case you were wondering.

This weekend I finally got around to the big install I promised a year ago.

Now searching the repositories for cool stuff. Any suggestions?

So far I've picked ( Read more... )

09:09 pm: Hippo crypticism
MAN-GLA-YYC-YVR-BZE-BHX
See you all on Tuesday, all being well.

01:18 pm: Out and about
LTNP. Hello all. I took the train to Portsmouth via London on Saturday morning, to attend a Battery Vehicle Society meeting especially about Berlingos. It was a good weekend and I talked and listened in equal measure, and put faces to the names I see on the BVS webforum.

Yesterday brought me back to London. I walked from Waterloo to Walthamstow carrying ten days of clothes, seeing many interesting things on the way. I met up with Ruthi, who allowed me to rest my feet at her house until ccooke returned when I made my way to Stoke Newington where my sister lives, and from where I write this now.

This evening I plan to join the cookes again in their weekly social outing, and on Thursday I catch a train to Bordeaux from the Biennial seaplane meeting at Biscarosse, then back to work for my first day shift in over a year on Tuesday 6th May

03:16 pm: Elephant on a bicycle

Is it just me? No one in this house can see the elephant, wearing a woollen jumper, cycling away from me. They all say I'm mad.

03:01 pm: Birthday wishlist
Amazon, it turns out, do not sell everything. Various people have asked me to add to my wishlist, so anything not on my Amazon wishlist will be added here in comments.

Usual disclaimer- I do not expect anything from anyone. This list is to give you ideas about things I might like, if you insist. Also, for reference, I have no objection to receiving second hand stuff.

My birthday is the 5th of March.

10:51 pm: Mediaserver client
Kevin has been playing with his new PS3, and installed Tversity on his desktop PC as a media server, so he can then play the media downstairs.
( More boring linux struggles )

10:46 pm: Install from source
More notes to self, because I really am that dozy.
( Read more... )

05:17 pm: And now- winmail.dat
saintmaryuk sent me an email with pretty pictures in. Or so she says.
( Fighting against my computer )

05:17 pm: LTNP
Hello everyone!

Lots has happenned since last September, and my other post was not written to be read, really. Just notes to myself. (although any suggestions will be gratefully received)

So here is an ordinary post.
I finally cracked over working nights, and handed in my resignation to $WORK on 29th January.
Within the week they came back saying 'have a dayshift', so I start days in May (2 months to go, and counting every night.)

I was hatching a plan with Mary to build an electric Ford Focus that would do 300 miles, but stopped that project temporarily while I sort myself out over the nightshift thing above.

Today I have a cold, which is just starting to get better.
*waves*

04:03 pm: Why is email so HARD?
At the end of January, Sky broadband turned off their SMTP server. I discovered this last week, when the fourth person said to me 'I never got that email you sent me'. Argh!

So yesterday and today, I have been trying to kick Exim4 to send mail to a server which will accept it. ( Notes to self for future reference )

03:03 pm: ABEND for a week
That was week one in Luton. This morning I have been adding to my friends list those I met at the Green Man last Saturday. Hello!

Thanks to lunrwolf for allowing me to crash on his sofa- I had a good night's sleep there and spent Sunday morning at the Royal arsenal museum at Woolwich.

Luton has proved not nearly as bad as I had been told, which is just as well, as I have another 6 weeks to go learning about the Airbus 320. I may find some internet this week, but I won't be paying £10 per day in the hotel.

04:02 pm: Help! London crashspace
Echoing Edmund's post, can anyone give me a bed/floor/crashspace in London on Saturday night, after the meet?

My original plan has been scupperred by my sister choosing this weekend to visit her new nephew in Stockport.