If, like me, you are a big Coldplay song, you will be delighted to hear that they are currently giving away (yes!!) their new song on their website for the remainder of this week. If you want to get your free copy of their song, take a look at this link to their website
Woo, almost quitting time! This is the first of three short weeks for me! Tomorrow is Anzac Day here in Oz, so, in order to commemorate the Anzac efforts in World War I, we get a day off. For me, that means that I have a nice long weekend to play with my new camera and lens, which I am exceptionally excited. As usual, we have an action packed weekend ahead, with lots of dinner, drinks, a trip down to the Gold Coast and other bits and pieces on. Expect lots of pics to appear on flickr over the weekend!
Is anyone else having problems subscribing to new feeds in Google Reader today? I’ve tried to subscribe to three different feeds, and each one of them has been giving me problems! Not something I’m used to in the usually flawless Google Reader!
Ever wondered how to build a submarine fibre optic cable? PIPE Networks are a large carrier / IXP here in Oz, and are in the process of building a much needed submarine cable between Sydney and Guam. I’ve met with Bob, their Network Architect and he told me about some pretty crazy and cool stuff that they are doing, and it looks like the project is going to be a huge success for them.
They have decided, rather unusually for such a project, to be very open and transparent about how they are going about it, and you can find lots of details over on their website which includes a blog that you can subscribe to in order to stay up to date with the project!
For a very long time, I have longed for a decent to-do list. Better again, one that was online, allowing me to access it from anywhere. I’ve tried out a few different solutions over the years, but none have really worked for me.
Today, I discovered Remember The Milk, a very cool, Australian developed website, that is rapidly growing in popularity and features. There are currently over 500,000 users of RTM, so I’m guessing with those kind of numbers, there must be something exciting going on!
So far, I’m very impressed, I can hook it into my Google Calendar, allowing me to view as well as create tasks there, as well as create tasks via email and the web etc. Only thing that I would like to see is a Google Desktop plugin, but, I think I’m going to be hooked regardless!
My new toys, my Canon EOS 40D and Canon EF24-105L have just arrived to my office, and are sitting here on my desk beside me. I’m itching to take them out and start playing with them, but, I know as soon as I do that, that’s the end of me getting any work done today. I’m gonna be good and just try and ignore them for the day, but OMG I can’t wait to get home later! 
I now work in a predominately MS Windows environment. Yes, I still have UNIX servers to look after, and Cisco kit all around the country to play with, but, most of the users here are Windows users. To that end, I’m currently install Windows Vista on my laptop! The thought of doing that makes me shudder a little, I’ve heard nothing but bad about Vista, and, given I haven’t used Windows hands on as my main OS in about 5 years, I’m not looking forward to figuring out all the bugs and problems that I encounter! Hopefully I can at least use my experiences to make migrating any users here to Vista a lot easier.
And having a fantastic time! I’ve settled into work just nicely, and I’m really enjoying it! I’m covering a whole range of different things, and some of it is quite new to me, so, I’m learning loads too. Lots of pressure to get things done for a big deadline we have coming up, but, that’s all good!
Outside of work, still having a fantastic time too. Things are finally starting to settle down and we’re having a somewhat normal life. We’ve just bought ourselves a new MINI Cooper S, which is currently being built over in Oxford, England, and should be here by mid July, to say that Kas and I are excited about that is a massive understatement!
On top of that, I’ve just gone and splashed out on some new toys for myself, I’ve got a new Canon EOS 40D and Canon EF 24-105 IS L lens arriving here tomorrow, so looking forward to getting my hands on that. Yes, I’ve been out getting more pictures of late too, which can be found on flickr as per usual. Keep an eye out for pics from my new gear there too over the next few days!
Other than that, not a huge amount going on that I can bore you with here, if you want more info, just drop me a mail!
If you have been having problems with installing cacti on ubuntu like I just have, this little pointer should help.
There is a bug in the current cacti package that’s sitting in the gutsy mirrors, which will result in you getting the following helpful (not!) errors when you go to log in:
Invalid PHP_SELF Path
This applies to both fresh installs and OS upgrades also.
To work around this, you will need to downgrade to a working package:
sudo aptitude install cacti=0.8.6j-1.1
That should do the trick, until the mirrors are updated with a working version
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