Archive - Aug 2006

Tesco have been doing very good deals on laptops as part of their seasonal 'Back to School' range. I couldn't resist and picked up an Acer Aspire 5601. Naturally it comes preinstalled with Window XP, which I promptly wiped and installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Everything I essentially wanted from the laptop works. There are few bits and pieces that don't quite have all the driver support in place yet.

Graphics

I actually found myself considering applying for an I.T. Manager's job. It would have been a good move. Half the travel distance of my current job and that is only about five miles. Travel time might have been about the same if not longer, as there would have been the Forth Road Bridge to contend with. The money would have been great too, a nice five-grand hike from my current salary.

My LoveFilm DVD rental has started up again with 1993's Project S. I'd put it on freeze for a couple of months. I'd just been too busy working on the Cossmass script. Now I just need to finish the last scene and the first draft will be complete. Once that's done, it needs to rest for a few weeks then I can go back and edit it.

I'm over a month behind on listening to my subscribed podcasts. This morning I am loading up July's podcasts. All 4.1Gb of it. I think there were a few problems with some of the feeds, so there have been episodes downloaded that I had already listened to so that should go down a bit.