Phew, what a scorcha!<\/p>\n
It’s a bit too hot for me, and my home server as you can see by these graphs<\/a>. It’s a good thing I installed the two extra case fans when I rebuilt it on Sunday using the parts displaced from my games machine when I upgraded that a while back. OK, so it makes a huge racket, but at least it should survive the summer.<\/p>\n Now, what else have I been up to?<\/p>\n Well, last night I went out to the MyVue cinema in Reading with Grim and Holly to see “Batman Begins,” which is a really good film. It was a bit of a dash beforehand to get food but we made it by aborting waiting for Nando’d and going to Wagamuma(sp?) instead, where Grim’s meal almost didn’t appear.<\/p>\n One of the trailers (only one?) looked quite naff and very derivative: take Top Gun, Terminator, Jaws and Short Circuit, place in blender, remove all plot, blend for 5 minutes and you have: Stealth. I think I’ll avoid that one.<\/p>\n Other news, I got myself a new lens in preparation for my holiday and especially the RNAS Culdrose Air Day<\/a> next Wednesday. The lens is one of these Sigma 28mm-300mm zoom<\/a> lenses. I managed to find it on-line from the Swindon branch of the camera shop I go into in Witney, T4 Cameras<\/a> for the same price as I could have got it straight from Hong Kong via eBay, ie. about \u00a3175 including delivery, which was far less than the SRP. OK, so it’s a “cheap” lens and the focus ring feels like a pepper mill when you turn it but it should do the job and I couldn’t afford the \u00a3800+ it would have cost for an equivalent “good” lens.<\/p>\n Anyway, this is my last day at work, I’m not going to do anything to the systems at all in case I break something, so it’s going to be a user support day only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phew, what a scorcha! It’s a bit too hot for me, and my home server as you can see by these graphs. It’s a good thing I installed the two extra case fans when I rebuilt it on Sunday using … Continue reading