MSA (by alaric)

I've just written an MSA daemon.

The role of an MSA (Mail Submission Agent) is defined in RFC2476.

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Long time no write! (by sarah)

Well me being super mondo muppet has yet again forgotten to actually writ anything on the blog!!!!

We'll I have to wait until september to restart my MRes :'( Oh well I supposed its ok - I bought a book on Microbiology which I have been working my way through - brain seizing up!!!!

I've been doing lots of drawing and jam amking and stuff to:)

I've also been trying to rekindle my passion for writting which I sort of lost during my degree even though I had done a Creative Writting course during my A'levels (yes I know I cant spell for toffee!!!).

Little baby is a delight! Two days ago her first tooth finally broke the surface:) though it is now v. painful too let her gum your finger - you have been warned!

I'm afraid that due to her new tendancy for bitting I have decided to be a bad mum and stop breastfeeding her (it really hurt and she just does it every time I try!).

Noooooooooo!!!! She's just had a containment breach - now I have to wash all her bedding 🙁

Separated at birth (by alaric)

A friend of mine, messing with my new camera phone, took a picture of me in a restaurant. And then a while later I was taking snaps of Jean with it, and in hindsight, I noticed that we both seemed to have come up with the same facial expression...

Purely by chance, I promise.

Ok, maybe things are getting better (by alaric)

We're still a bit borderline on the financial side, but it looks like we'll last the week.

On the downside, my main server was down for two days last week 🙁 This was due to our ISP not paying his ISP, and being disconnected.

However, my driving lessons are going well. I seem to have mastered the reverse park quite neatly, so I'm starting to feel quite confident about the next test, on the 24th.

Work has been tricky; everything seems to be going wrong with the infrastructures I'm trying to build on top of.

On the project with the broken hardware, I now have new hardware, and the special PCI card is recognised by the Linux kernel according to dmesg and the set of loaded modules, but it won't seem to talk to userland at all. I'm currently trying to trace the problem down the kernel->hotplug->udev pipeline. I hate Linux.

On my ongoing support/development contract with Frontwire, I'm trying to fix a few old but annoying bugs in the Workspace software, but something's gone wrong with Swing or my X server - because all Swing windows come up as blank grey rectangles. Which is making testing a pain. I've been spending all the time on it trying to migrate the build process to run on the Mac so I can do it with the native Swing rather than X-over-ssh from the Linux box. I hate Linux.

Bleargh. Why must I spend my time dealing with rubbish like that, rather than actually doing useful stuff?

When I have more money, I'll hire UNDERLINGS to do this kind of thing for me. I'll make them wear boiler suits, and then I'll sit in a motorised chair wearing a white suit and stroking a cat.

A rather cute picture (by alaric)

Now I have a mobile phone that works at home, I'm carrying it around with me, which means I have a digital camera to hand when Jean's being particularly cute.

Despite the grainy quality due to it being a tiny camera, this is perhaps the cutest photo to date!