We had another fun "pintjesdag" last night, and it was a welcome change from the crap we've been dealing with over the weekend. The weather outside is too good to stay in today, so I'll be out on my terrace with Tai - who up to this point has been sleeping like a baby on the couch - to get some air, sun and sand. Well, not sand maybe.
I had planned to meet up with a colleague from work in SL, but he didn't show. He probably also thought it was too good out to stay in. Wise choise!
Update : Ok, sitting outside didn't last that long... out in the sun it was getting a little too hot for my liking, and my laptop screen proved next to impossiblle to read on when in the sunlight. So I've moved back inside but the large window is wide open so sun and air is abundantly flowing in. My laptop is currently running a disk check in preparation of a repartitioning, which in turn is preparation to install a dual boot system running XP (currently installed) and Ubuntu Linux. While the check is running - it's taking quite some time - I've made some behind-the-scenes changes to the blog, that should lessen the server load, making everyone more happy. If you suddenly notice something broken or not working as expected, please tell me about it.
I have only little experience with running linux - a couple of years ago I had a distro running on an old PC, but after two kernel compiles I promptly forgot the root password and either reclaimed to box after sitting there for a couple of months, or I took it apart for spares, I don't remember - but this seemed like a fun project to do on a single day off. Yes, I'm well aware that installing a new OS and getting acknowledged with it will take longer than 8 hours, but I just don't seem to learn. I've always been like this, and will always be...
Update 2 : Several hours later, the Ubuntu install (44% finished) is finally running. It was the old XP install that was giving me trouble. Every time I attempted to repartition the disk, it would exit claiming there were disk errors, no matter how many chkdsk commands I ran. After tossing Partition Commander in the bit bin and finding an old copy of Partition Magic, I freed up a nice 16GB of HD space where I'm now installing linux on.