Just made three changes:

• From using joe to vim,
• from the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress to the plaintext HTML one (I hope my HTML is up to scratch),
• and moved my Trac and Subversion installations to server2 as well as opened ports 80 and 443 to the outside world so the links in my previous post work

As I write this, I am listening to: Dream Theater, Blind Faith, from Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

The title: lol

I have heard reports that my blog is rather one sided and some can't actually understand what is going on. It is correct though: unless you have a Windows Mobile phone and want to use it on GNU/Linux, then you will not know, or will not want to know, about SynCE and my woes about it! Same goes about using the bcm43xx driver on my wireless card. Although I'll keep writing blogs like that, I will try to also write more about what's going on in the old life I'm having at the moment.

PHP-Site has really been taking off in development. I have been using Trac on my home server and can be accessed at:

https://jonnylamb.no-ip.org/phpsite

This site contains a wiki, roadmap, subversion source and ticket system. Please visit this if you're remotely interested and check it out. I want to move this site to it's normal home: phpsite.org, or more precisely: trac.phpsite.org. There is also a mailing list for PHP-Site. It will start to be used more as the script really takes off. This can be found on SourceForge at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/phpsite-news. I would also love more interest and more people involved in development, documentation or the general running of the project. It would be a great help as well as a good way to promote the project.

Results day is in one week today (it is now past twelve so technically 6 days) and I'm not looking forward to it.

However, Pro Corda starts soon and I am looking forward to it! I'm playing first violin in Dvorak's American quartet, Op. 96, movements II and IV; and first viola in Bargiel's octet, Op. 15a, movement I. The former is a really great piece and I still have much work to do on it before I leave, but I'm sure I'll enjoy playing it with my regular quartet- Anna, Immy and Conrad. The latter is a new one to me- I hadn't heard of Bargiel before receiving the music but I am liking the piece. It isn't quite like the octet but it is a very nice piece! The theme of the party is the letter G, which I think, and I'm sure you'll agree, is rubbish. In fact, there's no doubt about it!

Last week while my parents were in France, I was (dumped) onto my god-father who runs the Cambridge Pianola Company. While he is a very interesting guy, we didn't get up to much as he spends a lot of the time on the phone and, because he's blind, can't get out and about too easily. However, there were some interesting moments to the week. He let me drive his Porsche. This was a more than entertaining experience as my previous driving experience is null. I had great difficulty putting it into gear and had to call on both my brother and my darling Fiona as they both had actually driven a car before! I was also quite lucky, as I managed to just miss hitting his Mercedes, which is fortunate, as I doubt he'd enjoy hearing the crunching of metal! Interestingly, he is also a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, which I don't quite understand, but I wouldn't, would I? However, thanks to this membership he was invited, with guests, to a barbeque in Fulbourn. Although the weather wasn't the nicest, I had a nice time and spent most of the time discussing cellular networks in the UK with his daughter, and the bids for the 3G licenses some years ago that went astonishingly high.

In July, I had a mixture of interesting excursions. I went to York to check out the university, as well as play in a concert with the York Young Soloists. The concert was good: we played Strauss Romance for Cello, James Freeman (a horn player in the orchestra as well as a music undergraduate at Cambridge) Fantasie, Richard Sheppard (an authority in the minster) Six Shakespeare Songs and Mozart Symphony No. 40. I enjoyed the Mozart the most, but it was a nice concert. The university was also good. I didn't spend much time there, but I did get a good tour of the Computer Science department which was informative and helpful.

This new graphics card that I ordered came to the door this morning, but 9am is a time that sounds like a boggy marshland when you've gone to sleep at 6am. It should be coming again tomorrow morning (again technically later today) and so I'm determined to be up to receive it. I'm bored of using the integrated graphics on this VIA motherboard using the native Linux driver in Debian. Go hardware graphics!

I have noticed (I'm not sure whether it's a recent thing) that Google now links you to a referrer page, so when you click on a search result, it takes you through Google and then to your site, which is rather annoying when you try and copy the link's URL. Is there any way to get rid of this?

As I write this, I am listening to: Corelli: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D minor «La Folia», Op. 5 No. 12 (Manze, Egarr)