Another weekend, another geeking session. This time I spent it building a very basic news server on the linux machine. The main aim was to ensure that myself and Grete could read news regardless of
which ISP we were connected to. So, it connects news every hour from a list of ISP’s (and if we’re not online, it doesn’t do anything), and then we use it to read our news using Agent.

Seems to work ok, although I’m not sure how much disk space it’s going to need …

Used a linux product called Leafnode .. doesn’t scale but works well with a small number of users.

Well, I’m knackered. Another visit to Ikea, more shelves, more building, more moving, more carrying, and the result is that we’ve now got two shelving units in the bedroom (with another 3 to build),
one 30cm deep, one 50cm deep.

Here they are, 50cm bottom, 50cm middle, 50cm top, 30cm bottom, 30cm top.

As you can see, Moria and Mordor have finally got somewhere ‘proper’ to live. The end result is a much tidier room (well, one end of it), and a much more knackered Tony.

Well, I’m rather peeved. I installed the GoLive patch, and GoLive no longer ran (problems with a DLL). So, I de-installed, re-installed, ignored the patch, and started work on the page again.
Filled in some of this diary, explaining about the patch, deleted some text and GoLive crashed again, dropping all the changes. So, considering the learning curve, the fact that GoLive has some serious problems, and the fact that I only started using GoLive because the auto-upload feature in PageMill appears to be broken, I’ve removed it. I can’t be bothered. [And the fact that it buggers around with loads of file associations really annoyed me].

So, here we are back in PageMill, and now I need to find a proper FTP based web-page updated which works, is quick, and runs on Win9x.

Anyway, spent today buying shelves from Ikea and they’ve made this room much easier to live in. [Oops, did I say live in? It’s only the bedroom!] Anyway, for those who like this sort of thing, here
are some shots of the first shelving unit, complete with contents. Shot1, Shot2.

Hmm, Adobe GoLive has some annoying habbits. Seems to screw up the auto-launch settings for text files each time it starts up, the global search can crash it, and it never re-sizes windows to anything sensible.

However, it does so proper uploads and doesn’t mess about with javascript URL’s as much as PageMill, so I’ll keep trying to get on with it for a bit. Aha, just found a patch on the Adobe website, hopefully that will fix some of my concerns.

Generally it feels like a nicer editor, but it is still niggly in places.

Life goes on still – stuff happening. I’m building our fourth PC at the moment (I felt obliged) so now I need to find something for it to do. It’s only a P166MMX built using our old kit, but it must be able to do something.

Well, we made it into the year 2000 without any serious problems [the guestbook at this site turned out to be non-Y2K compliant, but it’s since been fixed]. The flu’ is almost gone, although I’ve still got something of a cough, and now my stomach/chest muscles hurt from the constant coughing, but these things happen. Grete is feeling much better and almost fully recovered.

Now all we have to do is try and fit our celebration in before we run out of time – since our actual attempts were stopped by illness and work.

Still coughing, Grete is a touch better, but she also has her cough, and is feeling ill around the edges. We did manage to venture into town yesterday however and spend our Book Tokens on another 13 fantasy books, we got,

o Daughter of the Blood – Bishop, Anne
o Haven of Lost Souls – Green, Simon R.
o Queen of Demons – Drake, David
o Wind from a Foreign Sky – Reimann, Katya
o Broken Crown, The – West, Michelle
o Downs-Lord Dawn – Whitbourn, John
o Diplomacy of Wolves – Lisle, Holly
o Colours in the Steel – Parker, K. J.
o Sword-Born – Roberson, Jennifer
o Amber Citadel, The – Warrington, Freda
o Green Rider – Britain, Kristen
o Exile’s Return – Jacoby, Kate
o Chosen, The – Pinto, Ricardo

Well, this is getting silly again, I’ve signed up for a BT Internet account, because they are offering 0800 access until Jan 3rd.

Today has been pretty hellish again, Grete’s really ill, and I’m only marginally better. Cooked the turkey – will bin it tomorrow. Cooked and ate some of the beef. Cooked all of the parsnips, I love ’em 😉

Let’s hope we’re both much better tomorrow.