It's at times like this, seeing a blanket of snow outdoors, and the snow still coming down...

...that I'm grateful I live in an age of indoor toilets.

Perl scripting with Vista Speech Recognition

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Bah, my boiler's gone out again, for the second time in as many weeks, and the third time in a year. It consented to relight, this time, after a minutes, but still. Time to fork out for a maintenance contract with British Gas, I think...

Emails

When I first installed Fedora Core 5 on epicyclic six months ago, I made a pigs ear of the dynamic partitioning, and grossly underestimated the space required for the OS (thinking of luminiferous where I only had 4Gb in total, and had to share that between two OSes). Whilst I just about managed to squash everything I needed into the space I had available, it meant every time I wanted to install something new I had to shuffle bits of the file system around. This, of course, was asking for trouble, and last week I finally broke my system.

I've just reinstalled FC5 (and will probably spend until the end of the weekend getting everything I use back installed and up and running), but forgot, when backing up beforehand, that ~mail/michael does not live below ~michael, and so have lost my inbox. My most recent normal backup was three and a half days beforehand, and so any messages which have come into my inbox since then and not been replied-to and filed have been lost.

The upper boundary on my estimate of this number is, IIRC, six emails.

So if you have sent me something since 7am Monday morning which needs replying to, please send it to me again.