Tower of strength.

I came off call at five and proceeded to get ready for an evening at the Dev. arkady was going stir-crazy too, so came with me. Dinner at Super Bowl Noodle Bar, then to the Dev, where miss_amethyst had brought her mum and dad. eyeliner297 showed in due course. Lots of other luvverly people too. I had four pints and was quite tiddly by night's end. And Arkady did okay because it was relatively smoke-free.

( Dev pics )

I spent today at work shagging goats. Home to an interview with National Public Radio about Wikipedia deletion and notability policies, wherein I carefully restrained myself from calling everyone involved festering fuckwits, then a chat to a Foundation person about liaison with another organisation. We're really at that difficult stage of a charity's life where it really needs to move up to the next level. I predict our next big splash will be Wikimedia Commons, especially when we have an indexing and tagging system that doesn't suck on ice. Cower like Britannica, Getty Images!

Then the box moving. Boxes off Arkady's mattress so we can assemble the bed, fish out her G3 and G4 and hook them to the Sun 21" CRT and play CDs on them 'cos we don't have a third long Ethernet cable. I really need a four-port switch for the dining room.

Phoned redcountess and tried diagnosis on the PowerBook. Booting into firmware with Command-Option-O-F gave us the Open Firmware prompt OK, but it hung the moment it tried to look at the hard disk. So either the disk is faulty or unseated or the disk controller's gone. She'll be taking it in for repair later Tuesday. Special *pint* to damned_colonial for offer of the Tiger disk to help bring it back — this may still be useful if the machine comes back with a working but wiped disk. Liz is hiring a laptop for the next few weeks, so should be back on the air soon.