Rabbit Pajarmers! (by sarah)

Today I went into the stable to do the laundary to find that Tim had left me a presant right in frount of the washing machine. This presant was a pair of rabbit PJ's Tim being the fat feline he is must have eaten the rest - I scooped it up with a trowl and deposited it outside. He'll be peed off with me but then he's a cat and I dont want rabbit entrials on my clean washing!

Poorly baby! (by alaric)

Poor Jean - she's had a snuffly nose for a few days, and has been generally unhappy about it and hard to get to sleep at night. She's been spending lots of nights in with us.

However, today, while I was away in Bournemouth, she started projectile vomiting, so Sarah took her in to the doctor, who said she had some kind of virus. She has to go in again tomorrow to see how she's doing, and in the meantime is on high dosages of Calpol.

I will probably postpone my visit to London tomorrow, because it's been pretty hard on Sarah looking after a very grumpy baby on her own 🙁

Nominet Lunch (by alaric)

Today, I attended a Nominet Members Lunch.

Nominet are the organisation in charge of the .uk domain name hierarchy. My company is a member of Nominet, giving us voting rights, and a "tag holder", meaning we can create .uk domain names and are charged "cost price" by Nominet for running the root .uk name servers and administrative procedures.

It was brilliant - my company are a very small member, yet I sat and chatted with the Chief Executive about issues facing Nominet. There are not many systems about where a "little guy" who wants to discuss how something is run can have lunch with the Chief Executive and other staff (in this case, Nominet's IT and Marketing/Communications directors) and chat about it.

Yet I worry that, in theory, the 3,000 odd Nominet members could all sign up for the Lunches, drink free wine, eat free food, and discuss football. It's one of those wonderful things that works beautifully because nobody's thought to try and spam it yet...

I went, not because I have a particular political axe to grind, but because one of the points that came up at the EGM is that a lot of the members aren't getting involved in Nominet governance; and so I felt I, as somebody who will never make much money from .uk domain name registrations so whose views on it are purely from a making-the-Internet-cool perspective, should set a good example to others by making my voice heard. Plus, I like getting into a good debate. We discussed EPP, IPv6, Nominet's voting rights, expanding the scope of Nominet to bid for ENUM and .eu, and other issues.

Baby geekery (by alaric)

Ah, I couldn't resist. I bought some NetBSD "devotionalia".

Including:

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Jazz in Cranham – Saturday 1st July 2006 (by alaric)

We're now selling tickets for Jazz on the Old School Field, from 7pm onwards on the 1st of July 2006, in our home village of Cranham, Gloucestershire.

Tickets are £12.50 (under 12s £2.50), and proceeds go to local worthy causes via the Cranham Feast Committee

Drop us a line if you'd like a ticket!

(And for the technically inclined, note that I've marked up the Feast web site with hCalendar, so one can use the Technorati Events Feed service to subscribe to a Cranham Feast Committee calendar, if your calendaring software supports it)