How old am I?

I once built an astable multivibrator (using, as I recall, a pair of BC108s). My brother's comment when I showed him the bulb flashing on and off was, 'how old are you?'

So, I have now for the first time in my life redirected the error to null:

$ find . 2>/dev/null -name "redacted.pl" -print

Blimey. How old am I? :-)

Here is a handy chunk of code for cross thread updates to UI.

public void MyUIMethodCalledFromWorkerThread(string message)
{
BeginInvoke((Action)delegate
{
someControl.Text = message;
});
}

scdelete

A new command: scdelete
This deleted a Windows Service and also cleans up its entry in Services plugin.
Huzzah! (My thanks to Jake Palmer for this useful hint)

2 Months In London

Rhymes with 'Last Train To London'

If only you knew.

Whilst we're on the subject didja hear Poor Edwards died. Death by bale. Harsh.

London, don't'cha know, is... Londonish.

Am 2 months into a 6 monther with a well known north american investment bank. Is v boring, just lots of Sybase scripts and back office extracts. Ooooh Matron.

Unemployed...

... or as a thesp would say; 'resting between contracts'

Unfortunate that the project I was working on in Glasgow was canned. Ah well. That's life (for contractors). I had 2 interviews on Monday and 3 on Tuesday and 4 firm offers on Friday; following a lot of horse trading I've rejected two, and accepted one, pending background checks (it's for another Investment Bank).

I'm holding the last in backup pending disasters around the credit score/ criminal record front. Not that I have a criminal record or CCJs, but, don't let go of your options until the ink is drying on the contract, is what I always say.

This weekend has been filled with flying (circuit bashing to maintain currency), building a tree house for the small one, and strimming. Oh, and a cassoulet with confitted pheasant. Mmm.

Oh, and per last month's post: I now have an ESXi box with a six core Phenom and its GREAT!

A Good Weekend

Eh, its been a while.

A good weekend was had by this Young Turk.
Saturday turned up at Tattenhill and went for an hour's refresher with an instructor in a PA28, then 1hr 20 with the examiner. Passed. W00t!!1!. So now got me wings back for another 2 years.

Sunday, sailing! Went for a jolly zoom around in a Laser Pico, sorta almost small ennought to be classed a bath toy, but nonetheless good clean fun. Ahem.

What else is new? Well, still in Glasgow, still working hard, contract coming up for renewal so who knows what next, the markets still pretty depressed rate-wise so I'd like an extension... let us see.

Still no further with NTP, various issues with servers and dev tool livences are being worked out as I type, so hopefully by next week I will be the proud owner of a 6 core Phenom running 4 VMs under ESXi. Watch this space.

And so it goes....

...from dealing with ultra complex high availability ESX issues, to....
a colicking horse on a Saturday night, ending with the vet administering half a bucket (thats like, a BIG bucket!) of Epsom salts and electrolytes, via nasal tube, at 9pm.

NOW I need a glass of wine LOL!

Oh, added a few photos from Glasgae... see Picasa...

(Look! It really DOES look like a wing!)