Wayne D's Blog

Wow, long gap between entries. Well it seems long to me. Spent the weekend in the woods with the Explorers. Now my jacket smells of wood smoke. We managed to get stuck with a big pile of wood with a slightly red centre that was very hard and burned very poorly until it got really hot.

I have really got to start writing my ideas down, I had something brilliant to write for this post but it has fled my overactive mind. I do know it was a gripe about something. I am getting quite curmudgeonly in my old age. I'm about ready to heave my car radio out the window. It has refused to work with my iPod to cassette adaptor. The same adaptor works fine in my wife's car but in my car it trys to change direction every 30 seconds or so. Very irritating. I was reduced to listening to the radio this evening and it was beastly. I couldn't find anything I wanted to listen to and ended up pushing the scan button and listening to 15 seconds of every station on the FM dial multiple times. By the end of the trip I had decided that I was going to crawl under the dash and figure out a way to get the iPod line output into my radio or else. Why would anyone listen to the radio when they can program there own station with their iPod?

My upgrade to Centos 5 was mostly successful except that I haven't managed to get Firewire working yet and my printing is totally screwed. I had installed a number of wonky fonts before the upgrade and now whenever I print I get mostly blank pages. I guess I should dig into it and figure it out. They upstream provider did recommend a fresh install, now I know why. The good news is that it the webcam driver I couldn't get working in Centos 4 does work in Centos 5. Three steps forward, one step back.

I feel less guilty about not blogging so now I can go to bed.