Early start, making some sense out of the mess and chaos here due to possibility of impending visitors. Set about finishing up some PC repairs I agreed to do as a favour. Having to work with Windows to diagnose hardware problems (which are hardly my strong suit) was a nightmare. The old cliche about the 'car with the hood welded shut' sprang to mind readily on several occasions. Wandered out to buy a cheap replacement sound card. Got a bog standard no-brand card, but was amazed and pleased to see that the driver disk contained Linux drivers too! Having finallly got things working I set about finishing work on the replacement for <<lionel>>. Salvaged all the important data from /home, and shut the case. Ready to go on Monday when a modem is available. Couldn't stop there - set up a webmail thing so that a friend can check her IMAP account, and an web/IRC gateway so I can maybe chat whilst at work. First glance at the Apache docs for a couple of years. Sort of crashed here - no more jobs to do, nothing much going on. Became miserable. Weird day.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
