Trains!!
Oh My God. Last night I left the office at 17:15 which normally means I walk into my house at 19:00... except last night it was 20:45! :( There was a fire at Cambridge Heath (barrels of oil or something burning in the arches) which meant all trains were diverted. The trains were packed and slow so I got a bus to Stansted Airport which was supposed to be fast... of course I found myself sitting in traffic, crawling our way out of London. That sucked.
Of course, the trains are still screwed today so at least I get a Work At Home day out of it! Luckily today is Makefile Hacking Day so I can do this at home...
Books
Just finished the Armogeddon series of books by Robert Rankin. Excellent stuff! Weird and wacky with lots of sex, violence and gratuitous running gags. Now what to read next...
I still have Heliconia by Brian Aldis sitting on the shelf — but I couldn't get into that last time. I dunno.
GNOME
Still waiting for beta 4...
My Programming Python book finally arrived — all 1250 pages of it. Now at last I can learn Python without having to read other peoples code and the language reference.
Thinking about re-writing Jeroen's Bugzilla-Buddy in Python for two reasons:
Obviously it does work for Jereon so (2) should be sorted out, but (1) is still a good reason as far as I am concerned.
- To learn heavy-duty GUI Python
- To try and make it work for me, as it crashes dramatically at the moment