Went to see "The World Is Not Enough" with Robin, Helen and friends. Quite fun, but consequently I'm now tired and can't write up any more of an entry. I've got some notes emailed to myself about things I should include in the diary, so I'll pick them out now...

Oh, one of them is the 'Solar Wind Monitor' which is rather interesting. Also, after that I moved on to 'United States Weapon Systems', something that's rather odd and cool at the same time.

Justin: That function's got 10 parameters ! How am I meant to pass that to a SWI ? Matthew: Erm... In r0 to r9 ? Justin: Oh. Yeah. [ How many parameters ?; Matthew and Justin ]

There was something interesting to write in the diary for today, but I can't think what it was. Oh well. HostsEdit is now a little further on, because I've had a little chance to work on it. If nothing else, the Filer library now has selections added to it.

Nobody asks me anything about the diary, but if they did they would ask me what I looked forward to in a day, apart from coming home to find Helen there (ok, I'm tired and I'm dreaming!). The answer is that I really do look forward to reading Mr Chess' diary. They make good reading, if you can keep at it over a period instead of just reading snippets. And they're interactive too, which means that if mail him with something, he seems to mention it. Which will obviously encourage people to say silly things just to see themselves mentioned, but that's always the way. It's nice. Don't stop :-)

Oh, I forgot to say. ECMAScript will NOT have support for floating point numbers unless you have RISC OS 4. Unless you like the machine stiffing every time you try to use them. That's just the way it is, unfortunately, so there you go... ECMAScript is only available for RISC OS 4 users - it's not my fault, it's just that you can't use FP numbers inside a module. Period.

Nothing much happening today. Watched some telly, played with Squid for a bit. Then wrote most of what will be a hosts file editor. Eventually.

I'm on my own this weekend; Matthew's gone home because he's too fed up.

Since I'm on my own, I've decided to finish the bottle of Lambrusco that's now gone flat. So far I'm through my third glass which is three times as much as I usually drink per night. And it's only 7pm. Sad, but then again I'm fed up too.

Plus I can't get the ECMAScript module to work with system variables at the moment. I've just added something to the new website to say what's happening. Given that there was so little a response to the last JavaScript release I did, I don't think it's overly important to keep this one a secret. Also, since the old release is so different to this one it's probably no big deal really.

Oh, we've got a Johnathan Creek on tonight at 8:55, so that's worth looking forward to. I must remember to do tea prior to that though.

Chocky rang earlier today for a chat. Erm. I've forgotten what we talked about. Actually I rang Simon about ten minutes ago and I've no idea what we talked about. Well, I know we talked about Chloë in passing. He should really try to make something of their relationship, but then who am I to hand out advice?

I'm totally stumped on this enumeration thing now; I just can't see an easy way to do what I want to do unfortunately. Until such time as I can, I guess I'll just have to suffer without any form of environment variables.

Looking at David Chess' logs (as I do, because I think he writes some interesting things) I followed the lovely link to schoolcash.com which purports to give money to schools when you buy things through it - a nice idea. The only thing is that Americans forget that They Are Not The Only People On The Internet. It's one of those things I get really irritated at. Because there's no statement that it only applies to the states, except when you try to register a school you find that it only applies to the US. Now, if people used the .us domain, this sort of foolishness wouldn't happen. Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth the bother.

However, I can't criticise them too much. Indeed they've been thrust to the top of my list of 'Sites that have damned good response times' - I mailed to mention a few problems with the site and have had responses almost by return which is... Damned impressive - I've not had that for ages. Well done to them and to Mr Greene in particular who replied. It may be just the US, but the idea is good .

I'm somewhat shocked to see that the message I sent to David Chess last night was selected to be mentioned in his log. Not only that, but it actually reached his daughter. Bizarre, huh ?

Coo... I think I found Stewart Brodie's 'ZapRedraw' Bug. And it's not ZapRedraw. Scarey, isn't it.

Heating's fixed now. The landlord fixed it today, so all is well. Nothing much else happened today really. I rang Helen and wrote a long email to her. I'm working on ZLib at work which is rather interesting. I seem to be getting allocator calls for massive sizes, and I can't tell why just yet.

Oh, and David Chess mentioned my comment indirectly in his logs today. He was asking for comments on whether people liked comment submissions nested inside his log, and I simply said that the general use on 'portals' (urgh, horrid word and idea) has made them overcluttered and made it impossible to find the content (particularly altavista and deja). I even used the word cack. Oh well, life is odd...

Finally got sorted with a news feed direct from news.mozilla.org. Consequently, I shouldn't have to worry about missing articles as I seem to have been with ndirect. I've nearly got enumerations working properly now, but I'm working on how the enumerations should work at present. Getting to grips with parts of the JavaScript system is fun, but not something that should be attempted in your spare time, I think. Well, unless you can keep track of things at such a slow rate. I'm not that good at it, so it takes me a while to get back into things.

I'm trying to tred carefully in the JavaScript community though, because I don't want to make too much of a fool of myself. At least, not just yet - I can make a fool of myself later, when I know what I'm doing .

Our heating seems to have packed up tonight, so it's a little cold. We'll have to mention it to the landlord tomorrow - it was a little late tonight to do anything about. In any case, my cold seems a little better today; I'm glad I did go in to work today as I got some quite useful stuff done.

A few moments ago (it's 3:40pm at the moment) I managed to print out a list of prime numbers up to 20 from my dynamicly linked module. Basically, there is a script that gets run by the core module and it calls the 'print' routine that is in the extension module. Ok, so that's not going to sound impressive just yet. But just wait a few weeks until I'm ready to announce it. Then, Well, people won't actually care, but it'll at least be something that I can say that I did when everyone else was merely complaining. Something like that anyhow.

Over the past few days I think I've probably given enough information for someone to work out what I'm doing anyhow. No matter. It's fun. I could really do with working out how to read BASIC variables from assembler (or C, which would be much more useful to me!).

My main problem at the moment is that the modules massively fragment the RMA, which is not a particularly good state of affairs, unfortunately. I've got to look at the memory pool functions to see if I can split each runtime (not context, because each runtime can have multiple contexts... fun, huh ?!) into a separate dynamic area. That way I don't have the nastiness I get at present when saving a file where it produces clicks from the MP3 I'm playing because it's got masses of tiny RMA blocks lying around.

I'm really tired again now (it's nearly 10:30pm) and feeling quite awful again, so I'll probably be off to bed soon. I keep thinking I ought to ring Helen, but there isn't much point really.

I can't quite get enumerate to give the names of the system variables properly; every time I do it I get numbers out, which is fine, but the 'container' for numbers can only handle 31 bits because of the way that it works. Consequently, I can't rely on it working in future versions of the OS when system vars might live elsewhere in memory, so I'd prefer to get it right and return the name. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work. Bother.

If you were at the Birmingham show then you'll know that I was quite ill. I hope I've not given anybody that because it would be most unfair. On the up side though, I got to see David Gamble again which was rather nice. I'll have to meet up with him at uni some time. On the down side, I had Glenn wittering about Helen. Ok, so he wasn't entirely wittering about her; but he seems intent in putting me off her, which - since I've told him enough times - isn't useful because I'm not changing my mind based on rumour and gossip. Which is generally why I turn off when he's talking about her. I'm probably wrong to do that, but there you go - you might say I never want to hear anything bad about her, or you might say that I'm not interested in gossip. Or you might say that I'm committed to her, whatever happens. In any case, she's not interested. I can wish and hope as much as I like, and that's all that really matters because if that hope keeps me going through the day then I can cope with that . Some might say that I'm fantasising about a girl who is unobtainable because I can't face the reality that there's no way I'd get a girl like her otherwise. Some might just say that it's a case of wibbley-wobbley wibble-ness. Ok, so I got distracted there by the music and when I came round I was thinking about the infrared keyboards that Reflex had on sale - they have an additional key that should generate a keycode and could, with minor modification to the PS2Driver, be made to work as a Menu button. Actually with the new PS2Driver I don't even need to change the current driver; I just call the right SWI to set that keycode to point at the same internal key number as the menu key.

Erm... Prior to being distracted I was saying... Some might just say that it's a case of being very, very sad and having no life. I'm not going to answer all those concerns. Obviously if I've written them I've thought that to some extent they are probably true. Read into that what you will.

What else happened at the show ? Oh, Paul took us out for a meal after the show, although all I could eat was a starter which was a bit unfortunate, but my throat isn't feeling up to swallowing things much at the moment. Oh, I did try eating a mince pie at the show with the foil wrapper still on. That wasn't so much a case of not knowing it was on, but more a case of being stunned by the fact that I couldn't open my mouth far enough to take a bite. Consequently it took about ten seconds for me to realise that I'd not taken the foil off.

I'm very tired (surprise!) at the moment; mostly because I was up at 7am and I've not had a good nights sleep for... goodness knows how long .

Oh, and when we pulled in today we found that we have new neighbours. I've no idea who they are but it will either be my luck that they will be two gorgeous women, one of whom is Helen, or they'll be two blokes in their 80's. In reality neither is ever going to happen, but then I never live in reality, so that's not a problem.

Dynamic linking now works. Which basically means that I'm able to call my core module from the extension modules and vice-versa. Vaguely cool. The first example of it working was when it printed out lots of debug, then told me that there was an error in the script it was trying to parse. I thought, "ok, I'll go and fix it" just before thinking "wow! the fact that I can see that message means that my error reporter routine is being called correctly from the core module, and therefore the linker works. Neat".

Also, I've got a cold at the moment. Which means I'm going to feel awful at the show . Oh well. I had today off anyhow - the reason for no diary last night was purely tiredness; I was in bed by 10ish, which is quite a change. Hence I've not written anything about the Iota incident. Which is probably best.

Feeling ill today, but I've had a quite useful day at work anyhow. When we finally got home, I managed to set up the new monitor. It's too bloomin' big. Well, not really, but it seems massive compared to te old one. Which it is . It's about time I got a 17" monitor anyhow. It makes life just that little easier. It does mean I can now write this entry and have AMSpectre running at 'Massive' size with no problems.

On the coding side, and I know that Dad will skip this , I've got my module to dynamic link. At least, I think I have. There are a few little problems with it as yet, but it seems to be working. Now I've got to ensure that the 'difficult' bit is done correctly - that it will correctly relink the static base offsets at the bottom of the stack. Ok, so that's a bit of an awful way to do it, but it's the way that SharedCLibrary and Norcroft works so I really don't have much choice.

Damn, damn, damn, damn... I've just realised that my dynamic linking won't work with routines that have more than four arguments. Bother. That will need a minor rethink. Grr... On the other hand, all the other functions work. Impressive, huh ? I'm still not sure that I'm doing it the right way though.

Well, the new monitor's arrived. It's still in its box though, 'cos we went to the cinema with Robin. The Sixth Sense. Quite good. I recommend it anyhow.

New CD drive's been fitted too. That's quite nice. And I've got to work out how to sort out the new domain that I've registered.

Got to see Julian and Simon, and Mum and Dad yesterday when they came up. They seemed to like the new place; although I'm not sure that Julian had seen the last place even, but there you go. They brought a load more CDs up for me to listen to, so I've now (finally!) got a copy of Celtus 'Portrait'. Which is very good. Really, very good. After I've had a little while to listen to it, I'll do a quick summary of it, as I did for Affirmation.

Last night, I decided to do the fun 'catalogue the pictures from my Holiday' thing. It's been put off for so long now that it's very hard to do. But, hopefully I'll get it finished tonight. There's only a few changes to make now anyhow; mostly it's the Josemite National Park pages, which are going to be the difficult ones.

Right... That's my pictures uploaded... I'll make them 'live' once I am happy that there aren't too many falsehoods in them . Oh, and I registered a domain name with FreeNetName today too. Hopefully that'll all be set up tomorrow .

Oh, and I decided to buy a large monitor today too. I'm feeling mad.

Spell checked the October (and most of the others) diary, because Matthew pointed out a few spelling mistakes. I have a blind spot for sentance, I think. Oh, and weird, too. And lovely. Apparently, in one of them I felt quite 'quilty'. I'm not quite sure how that's meant to be - sort of warm and fluffy ?

Looks like the washing I did last night was on a little too hot, because I've ended up with green socks. Well, I suppose that it's the first time I've ever done that, so I can't feel too bad. Looks silly though .

Quote of the day: Whilst Matthew was playing worms, three of the computers worms were stuck in a small hole, along with a weak worm of his. So I said "You'll have to sacrifice him for the sack of the cause." To which the response came "Don't be silly. The Corrs aren't that good."

Decided to try a different way of uploading my webpages... Instead of connecting to ftp.ndirect.co.uk, I tried www.thevillage.ndirect.co.uk. Which, it seems, works. So, I'm very pissed off that I didn't get any support for this; I worked it out for myself. Eventually. Given that every time I mailed I stated that I was trying to connect to that host, you would think that a simple email correcting this misapprehension would have sufficed.

Matthew's been attempting to install Windows and Linux on his PC. That's been fun. Oh yes. I think it's six installs of Windows so far. Sad, isn't it ? I've got family coming up tomorrow, so that'll be interesting. Not sure exactly what we'll be doing.

Doctor Who night on BBC 2 tonight was interesting. Lots of strange monsters I'd never seen before and stuff. Quite cool.

Working on a reasonably simple dynamic linker for my little module thingy that I'm porting. Given that the core module is about 680k so far, I guess it's a reasonably good job that I've decided to use separated modules for sub-tasks.

Well, I've fallen in love with the new Savage Garden album 'Affirmation'. It's gorgeous. For the time being anyhow. I'm still torn between it and Counting Crows 'Recovering the Satelites'.

I was surprised to find that the Savage Garden site didn't have any MP3 snippets to listen to as a taster, but I still went out and bought it - I'd have done that anyhow, but it would have been nice to have had something more on there; a snippet of Chained to You would have been a good representation I think; or The Best Thing. Anyhow, what do I think of it so far ?

1. Affirmation - I looked at the lyrics before hearing it and I was somewhat dubious about it. It's the way that every line starts 'I believe' which looks somewhat odd, but it's a really cool intro track. I found myself thinking "Yep, yep, yep, nah but what the hell, yep, yep" through it, if you see what I mean .

   I believe the sun should never set upon an argument.
   I believe we place our hapiness in other people's hands.

2. Hold Me - A nice gentle track, reminiscent of Santa Monica but more 'middley' (it fits in the middle of the album).

   I might need you to make the first stand; Because tonight I'm finding it hard to be your man.

3. I Knew I Loved You - Track 3. The single. Hmm... Ring any bells ? And does it have the same sentiment as Truly, Madly, Deeply ? Yes. It's trying to be that, but I don't think it makes it. Actually I think this is the poorest track on the album, to be honest. That's not to say that it's bad, but I'm not amazingly keen on it. Sorry.

   I knew I loved you before I met you;
   I think I dreamed you into my life

4. The Best Thing - a beat to this one. Quite a cool track, I rather like it. From the track name, it's not what I expected which is good.

   Never want to run; Frightened to believe;
   You're the best thing about me

5. Crash And Burn - I really like this track; I think it's something about sentiment, but whatever, it's got a slow intro setting a scene to the track, with a not easily singalongable chorus (well, not for me, but I like that). It's got a very familiar intro. I'm not sure what it sounds like though.

   Let me be the one you call; If you jump I'll break the fall; Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

6. Chained To You - another 'beat' track, with a couple of bits that I can sing along to... "I think about you all the time..."

   Is this fate, is it my destiny;
   That I think about you all the time

7. The Animal Song - Hmmm... Ok, almost this sits with "I knew I loved you". It feels out of place. It's not that I dislike the sentiment, or the actual music, it just doesn't have lyrics I think I can sing along to particularly. Although, on the other hand, it's got some of 'Affirmation' in it. It feels... erm... Disney... Ok, why do I think that ? I don't know, but it does.

   Animals and children tell the truth, they never lie.
   Which one is more human ?

8. The Lover After Me - Ok, so I relate to this one quite well. I'm obsessive, so it's very much a 'me' track, but... again I'm not sure that it's a track I'd have done. If I were musical. But that's just me. That said, I like the track - it's singable, and it's got good music to it, so it's ok.

   Ever since you've been gone, the lights go out the same;
   The only difference is you call another name

9. Two Beds and A Coffee Machine - Yes, I know I'm a sucker for piano intros. Slow tracks are either annoying or just totally gorgeous. And this one just falls perfectly in the 'Gorgeous' category. Totally. It's for tracks like this that you find yourself waiting. Sometimes on hearing tracks like this it's hard to not cry; Phil Collin's 'Roof is Leaking', Justin Hayward's 'Forever Autumn', Joshua Cadison's 'Jessie'... Somehow they have something that just triggers a lot more emotion than the others. I could (and will!) listen to this for hours .

   Another ditch in the road - you keep moving;
   Another stop sign - you keep moving on;
   And the years go on so fast

10. You Can Still Be Free - Thank god they've followed TB&CM with a track with a mild intro, and it doesn't build up to anything too much. Sorry, that's a usual criticism - a gorgeous soft track, followed by a heavy track which is just too much of a contrast. But, back to this track. Although it's overshadowed a little by the prior track, it continues a theme (to my mind) and fits very well where it is. Plus, it's got some nice lyrics, and music.

    Sail through the crimson skies;
    The purest light - the light that sets you free

11. Gunning Down Romance - Strange track name, and I've just realised what it sounds like. It's very like track 10 on the Classic Rock Society album 'Unprogged' which I forget the name of right now. Another singable one - a little darker than the others.

    I'm gunning down romance; it never did a thing for me;
    But heartache and misery ain't nothing but a tragedy

12. I Don't Know You Anymore - It's a contest between this and Two Beds and a Coffee Machine for favourite of it's kind on this album. Yes, they're quite similar. It's that piano again. Notice something, though. Last track, a slow track. Not that that's a criticism, but it's a lovely track.

    Because I don't know you any more; I don't recognise this place;
    The picture frames have changed, and so has your name.

So, what is a quick summary of the album ? Well, I think I'd say that it's a 9/10, possibly 9½/10. Although there are some tracks that are not as good, in my opinion, they don't detract from the album at all. Indeed, I'm loath to give such opinions really after having the album only two days.

Would I recommend it to friends ? Yes, definitely. If you liked the first album, you'll like the second.

The first 'large' module that I've ever put together started working sensibly for the first time today. Basically it takes about a minute to run its tests, but it did print 'Hello World,' as it was supposed to :-)

Bought the new Savage Garden album (Affirmation) today. On the first couple of listenings it sounds pretty good to me!

Mum and Dad (and Simon and Julian) are coming up on Sunday at about 1pm, so I've got to tidy this place up. Well, finish off the bits that are left. Dave's off tomorrow until Wednesday, so we've got the office to ourselves.

Having problems with the C compiler at the moment. It doesn't seem to like arrays in C modules. Or at least, it's including them 'wrongly'. I think it's a cross between a compiler problem and a linker problem. I'm reasonably sure it should be possible. But it's not.

I still can't upload my pages. I'm very annoyed.

Too tired to write anything useful up today. Chris has found himself somwehere to live, he thinks. I tried out #doomroom as suggested on DoomWorld and I think I made a bit of a prat of myself. Not too much of a prat, but a bit of a prat. They seem like a friendly bunch in there anyhow, so I may pop back.

Parents are coming up on Sunday, it seems. So I had better get this place tidied up before then.

For all of the whinging about the integration of IE with Windows, I've just had a play today with the filer view configuration controls. It's interesting. Oh yes. So, I've modified it to display a breakdown of the filetypes currently selected. About an hour to do that, mostly taken up with trying to understand JavaScript - I'm still getting the hang of it in places.

But it's very nice, nonetheless.

Spoke to Zappo briefly on IRC. He's still busy doing fun things.

NDirect now have a broken SMTP server. Hmm. Really good.

Added swinging camera effect to the end of Doom levels - the frags message or the count of kills will now swing around to see what was behind you.

It's the first morning in new place. And have I found anything wrong with it yet ? Well, since last night I dreamt I spent a week in an island off the coast of Honalulu to evaluate some SA1100 based machine and forgot to take along my passport (but got away with it - hey, it's my dream!) I think that there was nothing in the night to wake me.

Except the bed is a little hard; it'll just take time to get used to. The shower is amazingly good though. Just when you think something can't live up to the expectations of the surroundings, it suddenly and amazingly does . Which is the companion comment to 'when you think things can't get any worse, they suddenly and horrible do', implying that this may just be one of those 'good times' and there's a great big fall around the corner.

A couple of days ago, whilst unpacking the things at work and waiting for my old harddisc contents to copy back onto the original drive, I was sewing up the hole in my jeans. Yes, there's a hole in my jeans and rather than buying a new pair I've just sewed it up. Why ? Because it is easier than going hunting for clothes. I've got to get some soon though. Anyhow, as I was sewing it up I commented that I wished I'd sewed it up earlier and said that "it is true that a stich in time saves nine". Now, I never thought that to be too odd a comment. Well, I did at one point have the same idea as Robin, but... well, I must have come across something to make me think about it more... In any case, a moment or two later Robin suddenly says "Oh my god, is that what it means ? I thought it was something to do with Doctor Who!". Which, if you've seen some of the Doctor Who's, you'd probably understand as a quite reasonable thing to believe, but it makes me wonder what phrases I've got floating in my head for which the meaning has been completely lost on me.

Whilst thinking through the bit about flying, I was thinking about the current advert for one of the banks - I forget which one it is now - the one with the triangle of arrows anyhow. It's basically a little cartoon of a dog going around the world to the theme tune from 'The Littlest Hobo' - I don't know what the music is, but it's cool. Anyhow, the thought was that it's designed to get the attention of people like me that grew up with that series - which it does! But the main part of the thought is that on some people the relationship between a dog travelling around and the music is probably quite lost. Which, I suppose, relates it to the previous thing about Robin.

I always think it's odd when you come into a group of people and find that they have their own things that make sense to them and that 'outsiders' probably won't understand. But it's stranger when that group happens to be a sizable proportion of the country, divided by age. It's always been the case that children themselves have a completely different way of looking at things because they are surrounded by other children - it's a similar effect to that of inbreeding; the lack of external input means that things go in strange circles, or spiral out of control into a mania - actually, thinking about that, it is a similar principle to that of nuclear deterrance; everyone is so insular that they merely see the immediate danger of 'they have bigger weapons, so we'd better have them' without the thinking of 'what else can we do instead of wasting our resources on annihilating one another'. This sort of thinking seems to occur everywhere where a small group of people are closely tied, and have very little external input. There's probably some special word for the effect, but I merely call it either internalising, or becoming insular.

We had a chance last week - I may have said - to look at some of the pictures from the webcams at the show. There's some gorgeous time sequences in it as you see people move around. Since the time frame is around 20-40 seconds, there are a lot of pictures in the archives - about 230Mb - but you must bare in mind that a large proportion are a black picture because it's pitch black in there at night. Yes, it appears that the cams were on all night. That's not too much of a problem, but it does mean that we have some little early morning pictures of the sun casting shadows and shining its light across the room. Hopefully we'll have a nice time sequence program to display the images so that people can choose when to look at.

About 3pm on Sunday is the time when Helen's around; Dave Walker is there at about 2pm-ish I think. On Saturday it's very difficult to identify anything useful because of the sheer number of people around. It's actually quite a pity we didn't have the cameras on during take down, but you can't have everything I guess .

Finally had a chance to read The Register and find out what has actually happened in the Anti-Trust trial. It looks like it's going to take ages to actually have anything done about it though .

Wrote up loads of features for the Doom site. I'm almost happy with it now. Replied to lots of mail tonight too. It seems that Chris starts his job tomorrow, too... which is scarey - too many things starting all at once. It's going to fall apart soon, isn't it ? .

Cool Buffy tonight; with her 'old friend' who turns out to be quite mad and wants to be a vampire. Not enough Willow though .

Ok, after last weekend's excitement at the show, I've had another interesting weekend - and I've only just had Saturday so far. Moved into the new house today. At the moment we're paying for both of them because we thought that it would take longer and more effort to move all our things. As it turns out, we had Dave and Catherine to help us - many thanks you two! - and so we got almost everything out in two trips.

However, there is one problem with the new place. There's too much stuff. That's not to say that there's not a lot of room in the new place, because there is. It's just that with the TV's supplied in each room, and the living room, and with all the cutlery and crockery too, and with all the pans and everything else... what are we supposed to do with our stuff ? .

It's so gorgeous. It's a lovely place. I never want to leave. There are obviously things that are going to not be quite right, but I'm not sure I can think of any yet, other than the one I mentioned above - if you want to count that. It's a house I'd be very proud to bring people back to. It's that nice. I'm almost completely unpacked now, but I've got a few little things in my bag still to unpack (yes, I'm down to one bag of things - all the boxes are unpacked and in their rightful places). Unfortunately TV, microwave, second TV and a lot of empty boxes are still stuck in the old place. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to move them. However, I'm not sure when that will be - probably next weekend now, I'd expect.

What else ? Oh, I hear that MicroSoft have been judged against in the Anti-trust trial. Allegedly this was on the radio, so I'm not aware of the full details. Hopefully I'll get the phone to my room sorted tomorrow, and I'll check for more specific details, but it's another thing that is worthy of a little dance.

Apparently Alistair got his job he was after, so he's going to be earning ridiculous amounts of money doing fun things. It's true - when you're on a roll of good luck, these things just mount up and suddenly everyone around you gets it too - or more likely I've caught a little off him .

I rang Helen on Friday - how could I forget to mention this ?! - and she actually answered whilst on lunch. Very surprising, and very pleasing. It's odd - I don't think anyone would have taken a mobile to college when I was there, but it's probably quite common now. It might make things a little safer - knowing you can contact someone, or be contacted is useful if you are going somewhere or whatever. On the other hand it might just bring on a false sense of security...

Oh, a couple of people asked for copies of FreeCell for SuperPatience; I'll have to dig out my little script I knocked together for them...

Time for bed now though, I think...

Whilst I remember, I must get a decent (small) photo of Helen for my picture frame. Well, it's either that or a picture of the cats.

Coo... Ported Slige478...

Total time for the port : <Vigil + Big Wedge>

It all comes from having done the work previously and diff/patch being so good as to work perfectly when they integrate the changes I've made. Neat. Just as soon as I've got the web pages uploading, I can upload this version in place of the 476 that I did from Dave's last set of sources. Typical, isn't it ? Dave's done a whole version of Slige without my having a chance to upload my port because of the problems with uploading. In any case, NDirect have finally got back to me; it's only taken 5 days, but at last I've got a reply. Unfortunately it's the weekend now, so I've got to wait for Monday to do some stuff.

Lots of talk at work today about how the show went and what to do for the next one and stuff. Quite interesting. Some people seem to be having problems with DOS discs; we can't seem to simulate it here.

Got the computers back from the show today - For various reasons we've been without machines since then. In general it's been a good thing, because it's meant we can sort out a few more things with the second house. It has meant that we've still been in the office a lot of the time, but there's not much that we can do.

I've added a 'private' macro to these diary texts now, so that I can write 'stuff' which isn't for public consumption. Why would I want to do that ? Because some of the things I'd like to remember aren't necessarily for the general public to see at this time - for example, I can't talk about work in here, but I would like very much to remember some of the things. So, there may be things that I've written here that you can't see. Maybe that goes against the idea of a such a diary, but I think it's probably a wise thing.

At some future time, I might 'unprivatise' parts of the diary; but I don't know when...

Updated Doom pages with Slige476 so that other people can play Slige with deathmatch options. Otherwise, they have to use the PC binary and that becomes a little trickier.

Spent most of today tidying up my harddrive. There's lots of rubbish lying around from when I was at uni, and it really needs a good clean out. Hopefully now I won't lose anything too important. There's lots of rubbish that I thought I'd lost which has been rediscovered .

During the tidy out I've decided that ADFS drive 4 (the 4Gb one that used to be Helen) will become purely a 'Temporary' drive. As such, there's lots of things on there that will - eventually - need sorting.

Went to pick the keys up for the new place today; it's better in a few ways than I thought. For one thing, the kitchen and dining room are larger. My room is massive and has a very high ceiling. I hope that it's not too hard to keep warm.

The owners are really nice and I think we'll get on just fine. Hopefully we'll be moving in in the next week or so - the sooner the better, really. It's going to be interesting to get everything in there, but I'm sure we'll do it . I still think I'm going to wake up after a while - there's got to be some catch.

The day after the show... Hmm... My arms ache ! It's all that lugging things down stairs and stuff... I'm not fit!

Dave's moved out now - he was stopping with us whilst he found a place to live. He has gone to move into his new place as I speak... well, write anyhow.

Other than that, a lazy day really...

I've spent most of the time moving things from the main drive to the new main drive which is on IDEFS instead of ADFS, mostly because it's faster!

NDirect still aren't accepting my password as an FTP logon. I'm getting a little annoyed at this. I mailed them yesterday for support about this and haven't heard anything yet - it may have gone to my parents though. Couple this with the fact that I couldn't use their support pages to report the problem because of some problem with the form, and the fact that the members area refused to accept me as a member, and that the address given to mail if you have problems bounced, means that I'm not exceptionally impressed. Maybe I should go over to Demon...