Time for another update. I've been extremely busy in work with my new job, so I'm going to blame that for not writing earlier. I've moved into a project job - at least for the time being. This week I provided assurance on a spend of �2.5 million (!).

In terms of FreeBSD, my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1300) is now basically fully up and running. It's on 6.1-STABLE as of 23/6/2006. All the hardware works apart from the sound and modem - neither important for me. I'll blog some howtos on what I did later.

I've also set my Palm Tungsten E to connect to the web. This note is being written with Plogit and I'll upload it later.

My family is OK. Alex is doing well at school, we're preparing for Year 2. Jessica is OK but grumpy. We're using a Handle massage technique to relax her. Early days but it seems to be effective at helping her relax at night. We initially used it on Alex, but stopped some time ago as he seemed to be through that phase. Jessica has real problems going to sleep at night. She can't seem to relax. This massage technique is helping, but she's not there yet - often not going to sleep until 22:00. See you later.

I'm in Blackpool today - not for fun I hasten to add. I started a new job recently & I'm now working with some colleagues in Blackpool. Lots of fun travelling up the M55!

My new laptop arrived recently. It's a new Dell Inspiron 1300, the cheapest I could find. It'll replace the IBM 600e I bought from ebay a year ago which no longer boots - and is now listed on ebay again to see if I can make some money back!

I've successfully loaded FreeBSD on it - and upgraded to 6.1-PRERELEASE over the weekend. The onboard Broadcom 440 is detected as bfe0, but I'm using an Asus WL-167G usb wireless adaptor. Took some research to find one that works with FreeBSD - this is seen as ural0 and worked first time. I now need to get WEP and X working. See you later.

This is the Harrison family blog. I've set this up as a temporary replacement for our old website. What will you find here? Updates on my family - my wife Deb and children Jessica and Alex; information on my adventures in FreeBSD; maybe some thoughts on autism; or even some ramblings on Byzantine history which is another of my interests; or heaven forbid work. Most of this will probably be written on my Palm Tungsten E with Plogit. I may add an entry later to explain how I made this work. See you soon.