Weekend update

Quite why I am up at 6am to watch some cars drive round and round a track I don’t exactly know, but hey!

An odd day yesterday, it also started to darn early but since it was light outside the children got up and thus I was woken, bah. Had to go into work in the afternoon to ‘switch off’ works largest single client (Le Meridien), which went well. LM got bought by a larger group (Starwood) and they are being merged into the group web site. It was amusing to call them to say things were done on our end and their project coordinator refer to the “war room”… come on folks, you are migrating data between systems, this isn’t the crushing of a hostile invasion! It did make me chuckle.

Whilst I was back in Bath I stopped by my flat to kick my ADSL. Recently it keeps dropping out (and I still need to move a few things off Avoriaz and onto Morgins!) for some odd reason. I really need to either make the router reconnect (which ATM requires unplugging the USB modem and restarting the speedtouch daemon) but I cant make that happen automagically. I may, as suggested, buy myself a PCI ADSL modem and see if that helps. Failing that I do have an Alcatel/Thompson/Speedtouch router box thing, but its functionally lacking (no SNMP for banwidth monitoring and no firewall), though I would expect it to reconnect all by itself. We’ll see, ad if anyone know about reconnecting with the Speedtouch CI cards please let me know!

Right, breakfast and more coffee before that start!