Pete Johns - Blog entries of the highest uptodateness

I understand that reports of the local bushfires have reached the international news.

This weekend I’ve re-started on a website that I was meant to have finished ages ago. Now that I have all of those extra minutes per day having extracted myself from Facebook’s clutches, I’ve resolved to get it finished and get it finished I shall.

Happy new year, folks!

I’ve deleted my Facebook account. Hip, hip, hooray!

This weekend I have upgraded my old laptop to run Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). The experience was suitably painless and Hardy is running smoothly. Since I’ve had my MacBook Pro, I’ve harely opened the lid on the old laptop, it has just sat (reasonably) quietly in the corner of the room listening for SSH connections and performing downloads for me.

As reported elsewhere, I’m in Hong Kong (or more correctly, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) for work. It has been a long time since I last travelled for work and had to stay anywhere overnight (the last time I stayed in a Travelodge on the M1 motorway near Sheffield).

I’m sure I have mentioned Freecycling before. It’s a fantastic way to prevent perfectly usable items from ending up in landfill before their time has come. Today we had a bit of a clear-out and put a few items on our local Freecycle group and now they have gone. Brilliant!

Well, it’s well past midnight here, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2008.

Those who follow my Flickr feed are probably bored to tears of sunset shots by now. To them I can only apologise as there are some more uploading as I type this.