Archive for November 7th, 2005

Posted on November 7, 2005 - by jono

FOGOB

Got back into work after a number of weeks away from the office. In this time I have been on holiday for two weeks and then another two weeks looking after the new puppy at home (one week working, one week off). I want to thank my incredible bosses at OpenAdvantage for this, they have been awesome in making the schedule of holiday and puppy all work out rather well. The two weeks at home with the pup was well worth it – they are settling in together really well now.

I am really pleased that there are other grumpy old men who hate fireworks out there. We definitely need to form some kind of coalition to rid the world of fireworks, or if all else fails, go to firework displays and gently urinate on the pointless things. Ironic how we are technically celebrating terrorism by banging on about bonfire night. Come on Labour, you have banned or changed everything else that might be affected by the big T word – lets have a crack at the fireworks. Go on Tony…you know you want to… I am now going to form a new organisation called the Fellowship Of Grumpy Old Bastards (FOGOB), an acronym that rather nicely looks akin to Bog Off when reversed. Fireworks were just the beginning, lets start a revolution! If you want to join up, let me know!

Dug through a pile of email today and consequently booked three meetings. In the process of working through this stuff and catching up, I have decided I want to learn how to set up Samba properly. It has always been one of those things that I have played with a little bit, but not extensively. I may enlist the services of one bald individual to assist. I also have Asterisk scribed on my list of things to tinker with. In January I am giving a seminar and a two-day course on it. I hope to spend some time this week poking with it. The SIP phone at home is cool, but I want to have To send Bacon money, press 1. To ply Bacon with food and drink press 2.

Oh, I am looking to buy one of those USB controlled wireless presentation remote flickers. I have seen this but does anyone have any experiences with these in Linux?

LUGRadio Season 3 Episode 2 is released today!!