Archive for the 'Holidays' Category

Published by kyle on 09 Oct 2007

Birthday

Well, it’s been and gone for another. A big thank you to all those that conspired against me to keep me in the dark about my surprise. Charlotte, Michelle, my parents, my boss, all of you :-)

On Friday evening I found myself heading towards the airport for a long weekend in Dublin. Charlotte had done all the work, and Michelle had sorted out accommodation in the Hilton for us. It was absolutely stunning, even down to the cake in the hotel room when we checked in. I still don’t know what to say - it was great. Thanks everyone :-D

Friends, Holidays

Published by kyle on 16 Apr 2007

SMART

Sods law isn’t it… You spend half an hour or so prodding and persuading SMART to monitor the hard disks in all your critical machines, only to find that the machine with the oldest (and thus most likely to die) hard drive doesn’t support SMART. Thankfully it’s just the router, which can be replaced at short notice. They’ve all been enabled with full attribute logging and autosave, online collection, daily and weekly testing. This should hopefully keep an eye on the ever increasing number of disks used within my machines. I’ve also enabled it on Lovelace, our shared server, for added security.

In other news, I’m just back from a weeks holiday on the continent. Mostly spent in Strasbourg, but we also managed to squeeze in a visit to Dave in Utrecht. Photos and a writeup will be up shortly (along with a Barcelona writeup too, I guess :-)

Computers, Friends, Holidays, Life, Lodge

Published by kyle on 22 Dec 2006

Plane Madness

With great trepidation I turned up Glasgow Airport to speak to some nice people at BA following the mayhem at Heathrow. I ‘d previously been on the phone to several people throughout the day, all of which gave me the “Oooh, not looking good for tomorrow” treatment, followed by the “You’ll have to wait and see” answer… great. The girl at the BA desk offered either to fly us to Gatwick instead, and bus us to Heathrow, or to refund our tickets if we get a flight elsewhere. Cue BMI. 20 minutes later, and 600 quid lighter, I have two tickets to fly direct from Glasgow to Copenhagen, avoiding Heathrow completely. Tomorrow is looking good, much less stressful, much more expensive, much less pain… but hey - it’s Christmas :-D

Flights, Holidays, Travel