After a day spent doing very little yesterday, decided to go to my parents. Spent a few exhausting but entertaining hours with my nephew. Woke up to amazing sunshine this morning after the first decent sleep in a week. Breakfast, then out to the station. Met the same gent I'd bumped into last week and passed the time until the Torbay Express appeared around the corner.

Much quieter than the King last week, but impressive nonetheless. Later wandered down to Weston station a little early as I'd heard there was a developing farce relating to a failed HST at Highbridge. Watched as a single car 153, the first train in some time arrived and was beseiged by passengers. Much chaos, the station itself being staffed admirably by Wessex guards covering colleagues holidays. Union of South Africa appeared somewhat later than planned, having been caught up in the problems at Highbridge. Noisy and photogenic start, had I been properly equipped.

Returned home to find timings published for next week's York Flyer tour, which includes a trip via Barrow Hill and Ferrybridge. Looking forward to it after a weekend with minimal rail roving.

It's been a turbulent week, and frustratingly I can't share the most important developments yet - especially since I know I've recently gained new readers. Suffice to say I'm having a small private celebration here with a drop of Laphroig and some music.

I hope that in the coming week I can share a little more about what's coming up - new challenges, some of them seemingly impossibly tricky. Most of all, I've finally proved to myself that I'm capable of moving ahead, which has been a long time coming.

gnome-pkgview is a tool for inspecting the versions of GNOME libraries installed on your system. The information is often useful when submitting bug reports or diagnosing system problems.

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bz2 compressed source code (190kB)

Version 1.0.7 (Portsoken) finally detects Ubuntu installations and adds Kinyarwanda, Icelandic and Canadian English translations.

I've said before that there are intended to be no more 1.0.x releases, and now I hope to look at some of the feature requests I've received over the past year or so. It has of course not happened yet. Apologies. Life is complicated!

gnome-pkgview project page

Decided to try some different locations for getting a picture of 6024 passing on today's Torbay Express. Arrived in Highbridge in pleasant sunshine and found a spot on the road bridge near the station. This location affords a long straight view of the track, with a slight curve in the distance. Chatted briefly to a couple of locals as we waited. Almost bang on time, the King steamed into view. Strangely, as I get to know more about this camera I start to doubt the settings are correct for what I'm doing - and a last second worry cost me what might have been one of my better shots.

Decided to wander over to Weston station this evening, along with about seventy other spectators. A rather late arrival meant darkness had all but descended when 6024 arrived. Time to play around with the camera a bit more, resulting in a curious but not technically very good picture of the King with a Weston sunset reflected in its GWR green paintwork.