Yesterday I finally switched the webserver, smtp server and imap/pop3 server over to the linux box I’ve been building. It was a relatively pain free exercise. All the websites are running on apache 2.0.48 with mysql 4.0.17 and php 4.3.4. Moving the latest mysql data across was trivial. The only hiccups were to do with [...]
Today I’ve had a day off, which was nice. I had to fetch Euan back from nursery for the first time too and it was a bit embarrassing as I was having to ask what happened next, and which way round the school to go to get to the classroom (there are rules, you know). [...]
…these countries: create your own visited country map It’s a bit inaccurate though as I haven’t been to Alaska and only to Montreal in Canada. There are lots of islands shaded red too that I’ve never set foot on but I guess they colonies or dependent territories of places I’ve been. These are the places [...]
Hee, hee, I had to laugh when I passed the cash point attached to our local shop as it had this error showing! It’s a good job I didn’t need any money at the time. I think the folks just coming out of the shop thought I was a bit odd taking photos of a [...]
We’ve got snow down here in Watford, all of 2cms of it. And from my journey home last night you’d have thought we’ve never seen it before! It took me over 4 hours to do a journey that should take just 30 minutes. It was so bad I decided to abandon the car and walk [...]
Beer Spill Shorts Out Iron Maiden Concert It’s a pity nobody did this for the support act, Funeral for a Friend, at the Maiden concert I went to before Christmas; I’m sure they would’ve fixed it before Iron Maiden came on!
Argh! My DSL router blew up yesterday evening which will explain why you couldn’t access this site, Watford Band’s or Trinity’s websites. Sorry for the inconvenience. Kudos to THUS and BT for their speedy resolution. From a call at 10am this morning, the router was replaced and working again by 12.30pm! Before the DSL incident [...]
On the advice of lowculture I watched Channel 4′s Grand Designs on Wednesday night. The programme tracks people who are developing their own properties. In Wednesday’s programme they followed a couple who were converting an old violin factory in their dream home. The house, when it was completed, was stunning and included all the latest [...]
A few days ago I pointed out the farce surrounding match day parking on New Year’s Day and that I’d write a letter to the Watford Observer. Well guess what, they printed my letter. Not that I win £25 or anything! Thanks to Dave for pointing me to SquirrelMail for a webmail solution. That was [...]
Oh dear, not feeling with it today at all. Last night I only got about 4 hours sleep instead of my usual 8 and now I’m suffering (hence my imood at the top of the page). I couldn’t sleep because my mind was racing. It’s the band’s AGM next Tuesday and, as I’m acting Chairman, [...]
There are four of us in the Wiley family in Watford. There's me Greg, my wife Louise, our son Euan and our daughter Eva. There's also our cat Fundi. You'll find a bit more information on our about us page.
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