Pete Johns - Blog entries of the highest uptodateness

You may have heard or read about the terrible incident that happened this morning in Melbourne City Centre. The fact that I’m writing this means that I’m alive and well, Thank God.

Wow!

Most of yesterday was spent setting up (virtual) Linux servers, at work. This reminded me that some time ago I published a list of that I couldn’t live without on a PC. My list for Linux / Unix is much shorter:

After some years of development, Bram Moolenaar has released version seven of Vim. I’ve been beta-testing it for a while now and recommend upgrading to the new version as soon as you can!

It has been a good day. Not only did I get to watch a very exciting grand prix from just inside turn five (and without having to get up at ludicrous o’clock), but I got to meet a racing legend.

It’s a good day, I can tell you, when you hear The legendary Murray Walker being interviewed on Australian radio and talking about his "very good friends" Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill winning World Championships!

Happy Pancake Day, dear reader. I must say that you are looking fabulous today.

The interval betwixt ‘tick’ and ‘tock’ is horrendously long at the moment. We saw an absolutely perfect flat / unit / apartment / whatever on Saturday lunchtime. We both decided that it was the business, so we abandoned the last scheduled viewing and bolted to the real estate agents to sign our lives away for the next four seasons. We filled out every last detail in their scrutinising application forms and handed them over, pleased that we had arrived at the office prior to the crowd of others at the flat. We were asked for a multitude of types of identification as well as past rental history. Sadly, neither of us is in the habit of carrying birth certificates, utility bills or suchlike with us and so we were told that our time would be better spent at home, gathering the required identity-confirming paraphernalia. In any case, applications would not be considered until Monday morning.

Phew! It is very warm outside and is likely to remain so for the weekend. This is, after all, what summers are all about. While the readership may be happily ensconced in the coldest season of the year, the writer is adjusting to February falling in between the Summer Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.

K deftly negotiated the final kilometres of The Great Ocean Road on Saturday morning. We stopped to look at the waterfall at Carrisbrook and while we were there we got to see some koalas in the wild.