Hmm, haven’t posted for a while so I thought I should just check in briefly to register that I’m still alive.

Had a 21st birthday on the weekend and Monday. That is, the birthday was on Monday, but festivities began on Saturday with a family “do” and continued through till Monday night with dinner and a visit to the Carlton Yacht Club.

So apparently I’m supposed to be an adult now… haven’t quite worked out whether “adult” corresponds to “grown-up”, or if I can get away with ignoring that…

Meanwhile, I’ve discovered gdesklets. Pretty stuff. I’ve replaced my gkrellm with a monitor on the desktop … they’re easier to cover up! And now I have an XMMS thingum in the bottom right corner of the screen, and a weather forecast for 9 days across the bottom. And a GMail checker. And a “Current USA Terror level” thingum that shows John Ashcroft with his face tinged to the current level. Currently it’s yellow, “Exercise vague caution”.

I’ve also bought a 200Gb hard drive which will contain all my backups. Well, right now it does contain the most recent backups, but it will go into an off-site box to get periodic diff updates so that I always have a recent backup of my whole system readily available. Well, systems, because I backed up ockle.org onto that backup disk as well as my PC.

Okay, that’s all I can think of for now.

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