Blimey, what a few days! Still without my work machine, meaning that I've not done any package updates since Friday morning. I've been using a spare machine at work, which has Win2k on it. I can't see how anyone can work with Windows on a regular basis, it's totally unusable. Anyone who views Windows as a usability goal frankly is delusional. Apart from anything else, I hate having to click in a window to give it focus. Now yes, I know I can download and install a third party piece of software to allow me to do that, but there are two very good reasons why I won't:

• I shouldn't have to, it should be an option in the Mouse settings bit of Control Panel. It just should.
• I have no idea that the software I'm installing isn't spyware, or worse, I'm not stupid...

Anyway, after the hard drive death at work on Friday, it happened at home last night. The partition on this server, swamprat.homeunix.org, with /home on it died, gave up the ghost, I had to do muchos drive swapping to restore it, and the machine was down for several hours last night as a result. I really need to replace the machine actually, it's about six or seven years old.

Amanda's in Leicester with work on a course until Thursday, so I'm fending for myself, tonight I'm going to the pub quiz with Caz, and tomorrow is cell group, thankfully, Amanda gets home on Thursday afternoon, so I'll see her then.