Pile of Dross

Checked all seemed well after dcache upgrade
Moved forward with installation of opsconsole - set video card to 1024×768, working on how to install desktop layout
Removed mount point for test dcache instance from lcgui01
Answered query from lhcb about srm endpoints

Having failed to go and see Star Wars 3 (will buy dvd), Sin City (have bought dvd) and Batman Begins (might buy dvd) at the cinema, I’ve gone and bought my ticket to the 4pm showing of Serenity at Reading on Thursday.

My West Wing Series 6 and Sin City dvs turned up today. I had thought that’d I have to take a day off to wait in for them as Amazon had decided to send them via courier rather than the normal (for the stuff I typically order anyway) Royal Mail, but no the box was sitting waiting for me outside my flat door when I arrived home today. Quite why the delivery person had thought it a good idea to drape my door mat over the top of the 6-inch high box escapes me though, were they worried about spy-satellite owning opportunistic thieves? as only some one looking at it from directly above could have failed to notice the box.

Upgraded dcache on all the various systems - 21 in all.
UKLight connecttivity has been restablished - adding routing to CERN back into all appropriate hosts.
Claims form for DESY
Checked stats calculation for RAS, discrepancy between his calculations and my stats.

Its strange, it seems that writing a few lines each day summarising my activites at work seems to drain my blogging energy to such an extent that I can’t be bothered writing about anything else. So what have I been up to since the last non-work, non-meta post on the 12th? Well i got older - quietly and without fuss, I’ve finished all 3 three of the books I was “reading”, been playing the new Sims 2 expansion pack and DOA 2 Ultimate, managing to get past 50 for the first time ever in Survival mode. I’ve transferred my dns and mail hosting from ProjectColo/Caladan to Dreamhost. I ‘ve (re-)watched all of Season 1 of the West Wing and I’m working my way through Season 2 and I fought my way past what seemed like half of Didcot exploring the new Woolworth’s in the town centre while attempting to find a suitably insulting card for my brother’s birthday. Really doesn’t seem much for over a fortnight.

[Edit - Bollocks, tack Scrubs 2 onto the start of the recently watched dvds list as well]

Tweaked info provider scripts so that available space was free space not total space.
Asked GridPP storage people to update list of supported vos they check at RAL to get more accurate picture of our disk space
Got ssh key installation working on scrooge
Attended GridPP storage phne conference

Spent some more time confguring the new ops console - now install enviroment monitoring script , creates ops user
Commited updated envmon script into cvs
Began writing checklists of thingsd to do for upgrade of dCache

Yay, LivePress now appears to be working from my new DreamHost host to LJ, now to work out why the plugin to allow me to add categories on the Write Post page isn’t working

Another test

If all is working this should show up on livejournal