A somewhat uneventful day.

Again, after getting to the office there were still confusion in the ranks as to what was done with piranha and what the initial ruckus was about. Repeated myself a few fimes. It almost makes you wish there was a local TV channel to go and explain on. (it'll never happen though)..

Slowly but surely the press articles are getting it right.

BIG HINT: "Linux" is an OS ie the KERNEL. The piranha GUI is a php3 web *application* and has no direct relationship to the linux kernel. So reading 'SECURITY HOLE IN LINUX! NEWS at 11!' sadly shows a great lack of understanding. In this, the major linux system distributers are partly to blame. They should make it fairly obvious that the linux kernels they are shipping are at version 2.2.X or 2.3.X (at this time) not <Vendor> 6/7/8/9 . These are simply convient linux based bundle software packs. The version numbering normally slattered over the front of the boxes should be seen as that verdors sw options package. A bit like when you go and buy a new car, it has a basic model which is enough to do the job and, for value add purposes, it has a suite of optional extras that you may wish to buy in.

Went back to the apartment to wait for the cable guy to turn up for his appointment. He arrived about 90 minutes late, though, I now have cable... more importantly, I have access to the cartoon network and the powerpuff girls. Life is good again.

Got back to the Office and spent the rest of the day replying to email and other fun administrative items.

About 19:15ish, went off to 'Best Buy' to get a VCR. Here, UK and US cultures seem to diverge. In the UK we have the equivilent of 'best buy' in the form of 'Dixons'. If you walk into a Dixon's shop and even so much as glance at a product on a shelf, at least 2 shop assistants will zero in on you and immeadiately start developing your need for their latest hard to move stock. In 'best buy' however, I desperately tried to get a hold of anyone in the sales staff to stop nattering between themselves and come answer some questions. After some time one of them did decide to get into the mood of answering questions about service contracts and features. Finally came away with an 'ok' sony VCR. It may be a NTSC restriction however, the normal PAL VCR's in Europe seem to be better featured than the US models. Then again, I'm basing that on the instore range of 'Best Buy' which may not be representitive of the VCR market in the US.

Got home, hooked in the VCR and settled back to watch TV. I had planned to play with the VCR as it has a 'commercial pass' feature which I thought would be a must to have.