Today I visited Chris and Meriel.

As usual, we talked and did geeky things including diagnosing a problem with DVD writing one of their machines was due to Windows corrupting the data rather than the drive itself by writing multiple DVDs using Linux without the intermittent errors containing bytes repeated again and again as a block instead of real data.

For the last couple of nights I’ve been fighting off a sinus headache each night on the left hand side of my face. Tonight I’ve taken some paracetamol to try to stop it ruining my sleep. Well, fingers crossed.