All the way from Cambridge

Thanks to DrBacchus mod_pony has been resurrected, and I have it installed.

How do I get mod_pony?
(1) svn checkout http://svn.rcbowen.com/svn/public/mod_pony/mod_pony.c /tmp
(2) /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -cia /tmp/mod_pony.c
(3) edit your httpd.conf (or variant there of) and add

SetHandler pony

(4) /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart

Now open your browser, and goto  http://foo.example.com/pony  and you should see :–

If you have your servertokens set to ‘Full” then you will also see mod_pony listed there too.

Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8b DAV/2 SVN/1.4.5 PHP/5.2.6 PONY!

Tonight on Top Gear, the stig was unveiled.  It is no other than Michael Schumacher.   He even took the new Ferrari FXX round the Top Gear track in 1:10, which was a whole 7 seconds faster than anything else.  I was so impressed when I discovered that it was Schuey.

However there are already rumours whizzing around that this is/was not the real ‘thing’. Whatever, it was a great BBC moment.

Joe you are always there
Albeit some times quiet, but always with a percieved killer stare.
Joe sometimes you say you just don’t care.
But we know in the morning you’re like a grizzly bear.

It has been sometime since we have seen joes2.
Does he still live with you?
We know you work from home;
but do you always have to groan?

Now that LDAP is on it’s way,
We hope to make you proud one day.
Please don’t have any fear,
Just make sure you tell infrabot you owe us a beer.

We know you’re good with C and Perl
So we must find you a girl;
To take you out for a bit of a twirl.

Oh Joe we love you so.

To be honest I don’t really know if I do or not. I hate certain aspects of London, like the number of people who just get in your way all the *bloomin’* time. But then I remember the great social aspects of a life associated with London.

I am just on my way home now, after spending the last 7/8 hours with an old colleague, but more importantly a good friend.

This is the first time I have been back to our (beloved?) capital since I left it to work in Cambridge (much nearer to home). I realise that I loved working ‘in’ London but not getting there or getting about around town.

But most of all I realised I missed some of my old colleagues terribly. I had grown up with some of them, others were just fun to be in the company of. But that doesn’t change a thing I am incredibly happy in my curennt role with new challenges and different aspects to my career, but I can’t help realising how lucky I am to be working for one of the worlds mist prestigous academic institutes, with some incredibly bright folks (some are even active ASF committers )

Do I miss London? No not that much. I miss the people far more than the big smoke.

So as I got to work this morning I eagerly awaited the notice in iTunes telling me that there was an update available. No such notice arrived until 19:30. I should’ve known I would have wait for post 9am PST.

Hey ho. It’s here now and it is working. The phone didn’t get bricked, thankfully.

I have already used the copy and paste several times. Yay! I have to wait until Friday to be able to use the MMS feature. But as I gave email locally I rarely find myself wanting to use it either. As for the tethering that will be a chargeable extra, one which I doubt I will use.

The search feature is pretty cool too. So overall quite happy thus far, as mist of my apps work with os 3.0

So. The weekend is over, and it’s time to go back to the relaxation of the office.

The wife and I managed to cram our Saturday full of stuff, including the town & country fair event in Cambridge, part of which was to launch national bike week. Where we did a whole bunch of stuff including registering our cycles. On the way home we stopped along the river to watch the May Bumps.

On Sunday we took a drive up to Holkham, in north Norfolk.  We spent an hour or so on the beach admiring the kites and little children who were running around and generally having a great time in the glorius sunshine.  We then made our way to go and see Elton John’s last concert in England for just over 2 years.  This was actually in the grounds of Holkham Hall, which in itself is worth a visit when there isn’t a large concert in the back-yard.  The concert was great, Sir Elton is a consummate public performer and still sounds great 40 years on.  Very cool, lots of fun.  It wasn’t your typical stand up, get crushed kind of concert it was a more relaxed have a picnic take along some chairs, food, drink and generally relax and enjoy what was superb weather.

The whole event was however unfortunately marred by really poor crowd control/management.  At the start of the day we all had to queue up waiting for the gates to open. This was fine, a tad annoying but not unexpected.  However once the gates were opened the whole british mentality of orderly queuing went right out the window and everyone just flooded past as fast as they could.  This then coupled with the extremely poor control of the flow of cars on the way out led us to be in a queue of cars for over 95 mins.  If these were handled with a little more forethought things could have been so much better.  Would I go again? Yes, but I probably wouldn’t bust a gut to get there for gate opening time.