Ah,.. last night,.. I completely forgot I had some frozen food in the car boot (US: read trunk) Fortunately it was a clear night so it was quite cold. Had a toasted bagel and nipped off to bed, but set the alarm for 09:30, I have piranha built/testing to do.

The alarm went off,.. *thump* <snooze>
The alarm went off,.. *thump* <snooze>
The alarm went off,.. *thump*
Ok, gave in,.. Mikes alarm clock wins and I get up. It's about now that I remember I didn't unpack my suitcase from the move from the other flat. Eventually stumble out into the kitchen and remember that I don't have a cereal bowl (mutter, somebody is going to get hurt)... opted for two toastd bagels instead.

Did various chores. By about 11:30 there wasn't anything else to do, so having procrastinated long enough, I drove over to Redhat to complete the piranha errata from last night. The problem with the piranha gui package is that it has to install with no password set. Additionally, there is no reliable way of telling the system administrator to go set a password on the server as that would break the redhat installer... damn,... now *if* the apache web server was pam aware by default I would have pointed the .htaccess file to go and use the system password file (/etc/passwd) and none of this would be an issue.This is not the case, and I'm left having to look after another password file that one one really expected to have to manage. Double damn.

Made the src rpms and tested that it really was the correct src tree being compiled up agains and checked the install and uninstall of the rpms. Finally satified, I dropped them off on the build servers for Wanger to so the Errata build on. Grabbed the ensuing build back off the server and subjected piranha to the same tests again. Hopefully that'll all get approved and signed off in the morning. I also revisited the errata on bugzilla and strongly stressed that people should set a password on the system when they update the package.

I had thought to go and get some miscillanious items from the shops, however, I just plain didn't get around to it through reading all the email I've been avoiding to read throughout the week. Err,.. there is a LOT of it.

Seems mum has managed to get herself into difficulty trying to print from her windows box to the printer. As it turns out this was partly my fault for leaving the default using a network printer. Oops. Hopefully that's sorted out and I won't be disowned. Mum seems to be quite worn down/ill and tired 8( I hope she's going to be ok.

Humm, my sister wants to take my old car (Ford Mondeo (US: contour)) across to the mainland to a) be evaluated for auction and b) to drag back a load of my gear from her house 8) Now would be an EXCELLENT time for Telsa to speak up if she wanted to grab my complete B5/B7 collection of video's along with the associated feature length films. Unfortunately the US seems quite ignorant of PAL encoded video so theres no point trying to get them shipped across along with the other 500+ anime video's. (did I mention I was an avid anime fan?)

Ingo kept emailing the engineering lest that the machine he was working with kept dying. I think we need to invest in a dialup powerswitch for him 8) I'm fairly certain that such beasts do exist.

Telsa forwarded an email to me from an old friend from back during my BioMedical days at Bradford uni. I wondered what happened to him. Mark was a good friend that I had back then. If anyone does know their computing history well, they'll remember him as the author of play and modplay for the PC.. A good assembler programmer. I wonder if he's been itching to fiddle with the gnu assembler and the intel port of linux 8)
Probably not, he has enough on his plate I suspect.

Additional observation about the US road system. It has potholes. LOTS of potholes. In fact compatred to Eire back in the mid 1970's the US pothole crisis is going to bite the goverment hard when people realise that bad road maintance leading to an accident (eg blowouts) are the goverments responsibility as they are the ones that tax the people for the upkeep of the roads. If they don't maintain the roads, they can hardly claim to be using the tax for transport correctly. If they require a bigger budget and taxes to go up for that purpose then so be it. They should not be allowed to get away with a 'so what' attitude.

Need to bone up on the NC driving test,.. I might take it on monday if I have time. I've arranged for to collect the new car on monday and drop the hire car back to Hertz by 18:00. I hope I can find a warm body to help me drop off and collect the cars.