Have recently uploaded new gaim packages (1.1.4), and today more new curl packages, this time to fix a recently discovered security issue, as well as hopefully finally sorting out that nasty symlink problem.

PT102 is now >2300 words, should hopefully finish it tonight, and then I can get started on the PT101 essay. They're both due in at 1600 a week today.

College Revue Saturday night was a lot of fun.

Liverpool lost the Carling Cup final yesterday to Chelsea thanks largely to Gerrard's equalising own goal 11 mins from the end of normal time. Bah.

College quiet day today, got former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey coming to do a few talks.

Well, I lost the election - ah well, congrats to Jo who won, and really was probably the better candidate anyway.

Lost power at home today, so was offline for most of the day, including primary MX, which also lost its uptime. Good opportunity to do that kernel upgrade I'd been putting off though.

>1750 words down, time to break for the night...

Liverpool won 3-1 against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions' League tonight. Would have been 3-0 but for a last second blunder by Jerzy Dudek.

Quelle surprise.

Got just over 700 words done on PT102 last night, will be proceeding later while Amanda's out at the college spouses group.

Voting opened in the election today, and we were introduced to the Partnership Course students. Lots of Vote James/Jo stickers being worn around college. Also, we posted our manifestos (view mine), and did a bit of canvassing.

Class, seems Novell have launched a public Bugzilla, including SuSE at last.

Uploading all today's updates.

It has snowed, and at one point it really looked like a blizzard at college. Planning to start my PT102 (Ethics) essay this evening.

Spent some of today canvassing, including talking briefly with some MCYM students. Tomorrow the partnership students are in, and Jo (my opponent, and jolly good friend) are planning to post our 'manifestos' tomorrow. I'll also make it available in .ODT and .PDF on the campaign website.

Whole bunch of packages to update today, metacity, evolution, evolution-data-server, ximian-connector, gtkhtml2, gal2, nautilus-cd-burner, gnome-panel, gnome-desktop, file-roller.

Looks like we could have snow by tomorrow morning

The canvassing starts in earnest today, I'll be shaking hands, kissing babies (okay, maybe not), and generally starting to try to convince the student body to elect me as their new president.

Every presidential campaign needs a website these days, so it is my delight to announce the launch of

jamesthevicar.com/vote

I've also created the Ogley 2005 site button so people can link back to my site and show their support like this:

Yes, it's all a bit of fun, but it's just so me!

Uploading new openssh and gftp packages, these include fixes to the following security issues:

• CVE ID CAN-2003-0190
• CVE ID CAN-2005-0372

Visitors Day at college today, I'm helping out with the morning session, hopefully we can give a good (accurate) impression of the college, and maybe encourage some of the visitors to come study here.

Uploaded new gaim packages (1.1.3).

Nominations for St. John's student president closed at 1600 GMT today, and I'm one of the two nominees, voting is next week.

Been a really busy week, and started two new modules at college, The Person of Christ (Christology) and Mission & Evangelism.

Uploaded Galeon 1.3.19 packages, in case anyone still uses it

Yet more discussion on the GPP list about using rpmbuild --with foo, this time prompted by Luis, and centred on using it to get around naming oddities across distributions. I proof-of-concepted the idea that you can define Name within a %if check, and to be honest, I think if you're walking down the road where to build packages for a given distro, you can use the CVS/tarball supplied spec file and use the --with magic, then that should also cover things like %{prefix}, rather than people also having to remember to use the right rpmmacros file.

Did Word Projection training (and I guess a bit of envisioning) at St Peter's Toton last night, went very well, and they seemed very impressed with Presenter. As did someone who came and spoke to me after the special celebration ("Ash") on Wednesday night from another local church, he took the URL away with him.

Realised this morning I hadn't got around to registering my notebook with Acer for the 12 month warranty, so filled in the card, and it's ready to post back, but a couple of observations:

• Put some gum on the envelope please Acer!
• Provide a UK address to send to - why should I have to pay international postage rates to send it to Italy?
• What do you mean if the notebook that you made develops a fault, I have to pay the courier costs to send it back to you for repair? You should pay to have it picked up given how much it cost me to buy!

Yay! There's finally an updated ndiswrapper package to (hopefully) work with the kernel update from a few days ago.

Liz is coming round for chinese food tonight - rock on!

Discovered a handy little feature in Firefox this morning (by accident). If you middle-click on a tab, that tab closes, saves you having to use the close button that for no good reason is on the right hand side, rather than on each tab (which is where Galeon correctly places it).

Well, tonight Mike is here preaching, so I'm currently in the chapel setting everything up, sound etc y'know... Oh the joy of having a LAN point by the sound desk Meanwhile, got XMMS running through the sound desk - Rock on.

Think the shelves in the Common Room might be going up today. Been a busy week, and I'm already knackered, but looking forward to tonight.

Well, we finished the weekend's work on the common room last night, at about 9pm. A few of us added a "bonus" session yesterday evening to get it finished, and it looks great. Photos will be up soon, as soon as I collate with Scott & Kevin the pictures we all took. Classic moments included me and Kevin showing just how handy we aren't by making a real meal of the relatively simple task of putting a screw in the wall to hang the clock

"Do you have a masonry bit?" "I dunno" "What colour's the end on a masonry bit" "They come in different colours" "That looks like it's probably what we want" "Got a rawl plug" "Ah, good point" "What size do we need?" "I dunno" "Well, what size screw are we using?" "This size"

At one point the [Scott's] drill literally stuck in the wall, wouldn't come out, wouldn't drill forwards, or backwards, and so I was standing there, holding this drill, with Kevin "helping", and we turned round to see Scott pointing the camera at us.

So, tonight the shelves will be being put in, and at some point of the next few weeks (ie when they arrive) there'll be a breakfast bar with bar stools, and a TV shelving arrangement. Then, eventually, the new chairs (that were ordered at Easter last year) might arrive. You never know...

Seems Planet SuSE is alive again, although also seems Justin had to restore quite an old backup, which didn't include some of the blog feeds I've added over the last couple of months. I've added a couple that I could remember, but if you know of one I've missed, please let me know.

Looks like Justin's server that hosts Planet SuSE, as well as his own site has fallen over. Hope it gets well soon.

It's another college Community Day, but this time, it's a Community Weekend, and we're refurbishing the Student Common Room. This afternoon, we've cleared it out, ripped out a lot of the lockers and other built-in furniture, and sugar-soap cleaned the walls. Tonight, while the next rota are starting to paint, we're off to the pub

Should look great when it's finished, although that won't quite be this weekend - will try to remember my camera tomorrow when I'm next on.

Uploaded Sound Juicer 0.6.0 packages.

Ooh! New OOo 2.0-pre builds!

I've been asked to join the college IT group, which reports to one of the executive boards of the college. Can't see me recommending any non-free solutions

A start has been made on getting tech stuff sorted for Ash Wednesday. Don't know if I'd mentioned this, but Mike P (my Senior Pastor from my sending church) is the guest speaker.

Nice to see on this Ask Slashdot a lot of people saying SuSE, and almost entirely for good technical, non-religious/emotional grounds - w00t!