Said you were smart, said it would just take a day of your time.

We need to shift the mattress ASAP. We need help with this - does anyone have a car (it's 6'×6'6", but we can tie it to most things), and are you free an evening this weeK? To go from Hendon to Walthamstow. Email me (fun[AT]velvet.net) or call or text me. Please to help!

Book pr0n with arkady and ali_anarres last night. arkady is playing with FreeBSD, but is discovering that the Handbook, well-written though it is, is basically intended to tell people who already know a bit of Unix how to do things the FreeBSD way. So we were after the level below that. The book she eventually purchased was SAMS Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours, which is aimed at someone who knows Windows reasonably well but is new to Unix. Just the ticket. It also covers KDE (though not Gnome, oddly enough). ali_anarres and I decided the contents looked the right sort of thing, and bits of the book we opened at random seemed sensible and well-written. £22 at Borders, not too bad. (Though it's £15.39 through Amazon as I write this.)

Ali was also seduced by the Harry Potter displays and plans to be queueing at midnight Friday in full costume. Rose too. Both Slytherin, of course. "Harry very carefully read the manual - four times - because Snape would cut off his breathing privs if he asked him a question that the manual could answer ..." (Harry Potter and the Book Of The BOFH)