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Yay.  Alice and I have booked a week away in a gite in France.  Looks very nice indeed, look for yourself. Hmm.  Can’t wait.

So, in little under an hour I’ll be dragging myself off to the annual summer beer festival, for a few swift ones. It transpires that this is a regular pilgrimage for those fortunate enough to be working where I am right now (yay!).  I am not sure just how much (productive?) work will get done …

Yay!  After so much procrastination, delays, grumblings, and peanut gallery interruptions LDAP is now in production use at the ASF. It is a limited roll out, for now.  We are only performing authentication through LDAP at the moment, authorization for the requisite services are still being performed by that said service.  The roll out was …

Well, I am now into week 3 at Caret. Things are going well. I will soon start documenting one of the core products here, which will most likely result in documentation being fed back into the Sling project. I am still cycling the 15 miles a day, and it is slowly starting to have a …

Well, it looks like I’ll be off to the Royal Albert Hall in November.  The wife and I have boked some tickets to go and see The Classical Spectactular. I have wanted to go and experience a great piece of classical music here, such as Tchaikosvsky, Mozart, or even Verdi. But Alice is not so keen on classical music, …

As those of you who follow me on IRC will know, I have been looking for a new job for a few months now, and I am very happy to say that I recently accepted a role at Caret, part of The University of Cambridge as senior sys admin. I will be working on some …