Archive for March, 2007

3510 firmware upgrade - urghhh

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Way back in Jan, I mentioned a problem we were seeing on our Sun JES messaging server machines with corrupt disks. After some fscking and much swearing (more downtime. *sigh*) Sun couldn’t really come up with a definite reason but given they had pretty much ruled everything else out they decided it was worth upgrading [...]

maybe they saw me coming?

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Reading Jonathan Schwartz’s blog entry about how great his blackberry is I thought I’d post a comment. Annoyingly, by the time I hit the post button comments were closed! I guess they saw me coming. Still, as I’d already written it I figured I may as well stick it up on here.
Google maps is indeed [...]

heh, Sun have problems with Sun support as well :)

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Nice to know it isn’t just us. I must admit this post made me smile
In other news, michs car was fixed - under warranty - with no arguing! I’m amazed!
I feel a little let down now - I was looking forward to one last row with the bloody place

brown paper and string…

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Ever since we got Jake an electric trainset for Christmas he has been asking if he can have a diesel for his birthday to go with the two steam locos he has. A bit of shopping around and I found Hattons of Liverpool who appeared to stock the required item at a nice cheap price [...]

*gah* cars (again)

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Michs pug went in for it’s first MOTT today - passed ok once the headlights where adjusted (handy for spotting low planes - less good for driving in the dark) and the fog light bulb was replaced. All good news.
Less good news is confirmation that the whirring noise is the top tensioner pully on the [...]