Christmas is coming… woo hoo… It seems to mean a load more work and a lot less time to do it in! At work we are moving offices, and moving data centers, all at the same time as doing a major upgrade to one of my main projects.

A plus point is that it’s safari supper this weekend. This involves us all hosting a course of a meal and going to each others houses for different courses. About 40 - 50 people play so you can end up all over the place. We find out where we are going next in evelopes at each location. But don’t tell anyone… it’s a secret! It finishes with a party somewhere, but again… it’s a secret!

Well leader training was brill… okay that’s a little bit of an exageration! It could have been a lot worse. The people on it were all good, however the content was a little tedious. Anyway, I put some photos online. Check them out.Â

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I’ve spent a good chunk of today playing with OpenPBX, which is a fork of the Asterisk project. As far as I understand OpenPBX is aiming to be truly open source to make it more stable than Asterisk, which has some non open source codecs included, thus hopefully making it more stable. Well let me tell you now, it’s very stable for me…. stable in a non working state that is! Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s going to be great once I manage to get it working. The problem lies with the Digium card we bought. Digium support proved to be truly useless. I called them up, and seemed I knew more about the product than they did, and as I wasn’t using Asterisk, they offered me very little support and certainly wouldn’t take a look at our server.Â

Not perturbed I managed to compile the drivers manually after a while and it reports its up and running. However, now OpenPBX now fails to load, it reports an error initializing chan_misdn, returns -1. So now I’m in the middle of going through all the source code to trace the problem. Nightmare!

 On another note, I’ve just put a couple more photos of the garden up.

Anyone know of a good colocation provider? My current hosts are proving to be truly junk. They seem to have a policy of overloading their servers, so It’s about time I got my own server and shoved it somewhere. Of course cheap is good, but bandwidth would also be pretty nice.

Tried to register my bike as off the road, but as per usual these new fangled computer thingies chose not to work and decided not to recognise my “document reference number”. So I called up the automated telephone service, which also decided it didn’t love me. So now I have to find time to trek down to the post office and do it, or otherwise as the adverts keep reminding me, recieve an £80 fine.

It’s true Cisco phones are officially evil. I’ve been through several hundread different methods to configure many supposedly identical phones, yet every time they require a different method of configuration to actually get a SIP image to load on them. They just don’t seem to want to play the game!

Anyway, back at work on a lovely Monday. Ain’t milk brilliant?

Well… it’s good… just it’s not that good. All the good action scenes are seen in the trailers, and the deep storyline everyone refers to, well it’s just not that deep. In fact it’s kind of a bit poor. Having said that my tea was nice!

Right, i’ve decided it’s about time I joined the rejoined the masses and restarted my blog. I’m in the middle (well hopefully past the middle) of landscaping my back garden. It’s proving to be rather a large job, we’ve been doing it since March! We (Janet and I) are off to see Casino Royale this afternoon. Perhaps I’ll post more later.

Update: I’ve added some photo galleries, including one of the garden project. Take a look here.