Productive day. Early start - shopping. Had no idea how much chisels cost! Borrowed one instead, but did purchase a speculative birthday present. Lots of work throughout the day on the chess board (and I have scars to prove it). Finally finished it at about 7pm but couldn't find anyone around to display it to! Released gtkdial 0.3.5 and announced it everywhere.
Hmm...its time to divide this page again. Maybe later. Spent much of the day doing woodwork for the first time in fifteen years! My first chessboard is almost complete, and pending a visit to the tool shop tomorrow, looks like it will be finished very soon. Useful feedback arriving on gwvedit (ie. it only works for me!). Lots of silly April Fool stuff around the web keeps me entertained.
Managed to solve weird and persistent lpd problems by recompiling from source. Finally got Gnoetry and updated one or two other things which had slipped by. Went to purchase the wood and other bits and bobs for Project Chessboard - which may even see fruition before GUADEC. Brief wanderings cheer me somewhat, but there is strangeness about, or I'm paranoid (both probably!). Nice, unexpected gtkdial feedback, and a Turkish translation from Kabalak.
Not a positive day - my reserve job opportunity fails to produce the goods, and I'm left high and dry. Still, the weather was cold and bright - just how I like it, and after a reasonably productive morning (in which Pix had her stitches removed and her recovery deemed remarkable) I ventured out. Paid a brief visit to Balancing Energy, which cheered me somewhat. Principia actually sold something! Bashing bugs in gwvedit with a fury previously unknown. I don't particularly want these doldrums to pervade next week - so could anyone bearing bad news please speak now and get it out of the way.
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.
