Travelling back from London again. This time I'm hooked up to the wireless network on the train and can therefore blog from my netbook. Interesting process for doing this. I had to su to root, and then change the entry for wlan0 in /etc/rc.conf to 'ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"' and then run dhclient from the command line. That said, the process wasn't too onerous and once I'd figured out what to do I was up and running in no time. The main delay was figuring out dhclient - I have static routing set up at home for my FreeBSD boxes. Anyway, the short story is that it was nowhere near as difficult as I was expecting it to be - I've never really done wireless networking outside of home before, except with the Windows Mobile (gakh) 'phone.
Coming into Crewe now, so should be back in Lime Street shortly. There was a brief scare at Euston when the alarms went off and they evacuated the station. I thought I was either going to get blown up, or be very delayed in getting home. But whether it was some sort of mistake or not I don't know - they called us all back in within 5 minutes. No delays and everything's been fine so far thank goodness.
Still trying to learn C programming. I'm not finding this easy (although I'm probably making this harder than it needs to be ny using K&R). Perl still feels like a very 'natural' language to me. The main reason for learning C is so that I can learn to use GTK and program a speech app for Alex to do his homework with using Festival. Yes, I know I could do this in Perl, but the opportunity to learn C seemed like the motivation I needed to finally get off my bum and do it.
All reasonably well at home, I just need the weather to turn around so that we can get out of the house a bit more at the weekend. The looming battle over Alex's secondary school is still just far enough over the horizon for me to stay in denial for a little while longer at least.
And I haven't even mentioned the fiasco on Mother's Day when I undercooked the pork for Deb's Mum and Dad, and had to be rescued by Deb!
Still back into Elvis after going to the show a week or so ago. Relistening to 'Artist of the Century' (which, if you remember, I bought from the Amazon marketplace for one pound). More and more interested in the 70's work.
Leaving Crewe now, so will get back to reading K&R (maybe).
Coming into Crewe now, so should be back in Lime Street shortly. There was a brief scare at Euston when the alarms went off and they evacuated the station. I thought I was either going to get blown up, or be very delayed in getting home. But whether it was some sort of mistake or not I don't know - they called us all back in within 5 minutes. No delays and everything's been fine so far thank goodness.
Still trying to learn C programming. I'm not finding this easy (although I'm probably making this harder than it needs to be ny using K&R). Perl still feels like a very 'natural' language to me. The main reason for learning C is so that I can learn to use GTK and program a speech app for Alex to do his homework with using Festival. Yes, I know I could do this in Perl, but the opportunity to learn C seemed like the motivation I needed to finally get off my bum and do it.
All reasonably well at home, I just need the weather to turn around so that we can get out of the house a bit more at the weekend. The looming battle over Alex's secondary school is still just far enough over the horizon for me to stay in denial for a little while longer at least.
And I haven't even mentioned the fiasco on Mother's Day when I undercooked the pork for Deb's Mum and Dad, and had to be rescued by Deb!
Still back into Elvis after going to the show a week or so ago. Relistening to 'Artist of the Century' (which, if you remember, I bought from the Amazon marketplace for one pound). More and more interested in the 70's work.
Leaving Crewe now, so will get back to reading K&R (maybe).
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