21 April, 2007

Here endeth the holidays. Back to school on Monday, for two days and then we have another holiday. Life is tough.

We have had success with the window and it is now stripped and in the process of being varnished. It looks good and the hard work of stripping every little bit of crappy white paint has been worth it. We managed to do it on a pretty good budget as well which is great as we have a few more to do. The next steps are: varnishing the other wooden bits, getting the cupboard doors back in and then getting on to wallpaper and paint. Actually a lot of fun and nice knowing it’s all going into our own place.

I managed to upgrade Ubuntu to version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) last night. Actually it happened this morning but took most of the night to download. I guess the servers were fairly packed for a while there. Compared to the last upgrade this was phenomenal. Even a dufus like me can click an upgrade button and then sit back. It is really impressive how simple it has become and considering all my past Windows upgrades have required a complete rebuild it was simply wonderful to not have to set everything back up once it was ready to go. The desktop didn’t even really blink actually though looks a little slicker in places. New tools and lots of cleaning up and my web cam works again. I knew if I waited someone clever would fix the problem. There’s something just right about open source.

Tomorrow I put the finishing touches on my new trousers and get another coat of varnish on the window. I think I’m ready for another term of school.