Work: Set up a 2.55TB RAID array using the Areca ARC-1130 controller and 8x Western Digital Caviar RE2 400GB drives. Had a few teething problems, including Ubuntu not turning on CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION and some odd interaction between the controller firmware and the drives where it only works from a cold boot, it hangs in the BIOS after a warm boot. However Areca support is great, they got back to me at 6:30pm on a Friday afternoon. This guide to LVM recovery was also useful for getting back my data from the clutches of truncated partitions.

UCC: One of the aircons died, and it seems to have caused two drives in manbo to die from overheating. Ebay has 5kW split systems for $550ish, maybe we should grab one of those. Also need to start organising the camp, committee has been very slack this year.

Advogato: Thanks to raph for restoring my account. The only niggle at the moment is the diary ratings - my explicit ratings are showing up, but not any calculated ones.