*zzzzz*

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I appear to have the beginnings of arkady's cold, which she caught from her co-worker who just came back from holidays in New York. OMGWTFBBQ OH NOES MERKIN FLU!1!!! I slept most of the way in on the Tube (we have the Norn Line back, thankfully) and have been sitting here staring into space and guzzling lemonade. If I feel like this tomorrow I'll be taking the day off, buckets of gold or no.

I didn't mention: on Friday, daneel_olivaw gave me his dead Canon Digital Ixus v2 (the CompactFlash model) — the one I recommended to him a couple of years ago ;-) It's fully functional except there's no output from the CCD. Could be anything. I may well try to find another dead Ixus on eBay to build a Frankencamera. You can get twenty to thirty quid for a dead digital camera.

Of course, this requires getting around to it. I still haven't even attempted to do anything to my dead MP3 camera. And there's a PCI wifi card still sitting on my PC waiting for me to install it and see if it works under FreeBSD.

Monday night I tried a dist-upgrade to turn Ubuntu 5.04 on my laptop to 5.10. It lost power half way through, but starting the command again seemed to proceed okay. However, on boot, neither X nor the network would start. I could have faffed around with it, but decided "fuck it" and reinstalled afresh. Tonight I'll run through my page and see how much of it I still need for Breezy.