So it's the last day of term today (for the missus anyway..), so she got me to go pickup pizza, and bring it down for her students.. I'm sitting outside her classroom reading an ARRL SSTV article on my iphone, after she'd gone back into her room at lunchtime, and it was like a switch on the kids mouths.. As soon as she'd headed inside, and there were no other teachers around, it was as though someone had flipped a swear-switch on the kids! It was all mother-f'ing this, and 'you g**-d*mn*d' that.

Wow, there's something VERY wrong with our education system these days, if kids even THINK of swearing at school, let alone doing it! Lordy, if we'd sworn at school when I was a kid, we'd have got a bloody good switching! And it's not like that was *that* long ago!

So I've just posted the last of the first batch of stuff I put up on ebay.. Not too bad, though i must have spent a good 15 hours photo'ing, and googling specs to build up the ads.. Still have an absolute bucketload of stuff, though most of it now is scsi cards, usb/firewire cards, scsi hdd's, and old 8x4.5 and 8.9gb raid cabinets.. Oh, and ram, and motherboards, and old 4RU ATX rackmount cases.. Will put that that stuff up when I get back from the christmas break.. Would be *really* good to have everything gone, and the garage/server room basically just containing the stuff I'm keeping, by the time I head up for Sharree's birthday at the end of jan..

Fingers crossed - there's a lot of work there :)

So windows is starting to tee me off with its startup times on my notebook.. granted, given the specs of the thing it 'only' takes 30 seconds to get to the login prompt, but then there's all the time after login to load virus scanners, and all that jazz..

So I decided to give linux a burl, after a 2-year stint without linux on the desktop..

Stolen from Jase who stole it from lord only knows where...

Here we go...

Wow, it's been a year. We still miss you Maddy!