Newport Scrum
Posted in Railways on 5th February 2005
Six Nations Rugby means lots of special trains to Cardiff. This means another wet session at Newport. After joining Lee and co. on 158964, arrived pretty early and found lots of people already around. As the morning progressed, the end of the platform became very crowded - much to the...
Power Down
Posted in Computers on 4th February 2005
Woke yesterday to find there was no electrical humming noise in the room. Investigated and found the server completely unresponsive, with what seemed to be a blown power supply. Unfortunately, I had only minutes to spare before heading off to London. Revised my plans for the day and decided to...
Ninety Minutes at Willesden Junction
Posted in Railways on 3rd February 2005
Having had a spanner thrown in the works by the failure of the server's power supply, plans had changed quite a bit by the time I arrived at Paddington this morning. The 'one of those days' effect remained in action, as the HST stock was late coming off St. Phillips...