Pile of Dross

Oh dear, this blog does seem to have descended into acronym soup somewhat - Grid Acronym Soup to be precise. Still it does make slightly more sense if you know that C.M.S. here normally means the LHC experiment Compact Muon Solenoid, rather than Content Management System, but not much more.

I’ve bought the fifth Harry Potter (Audio)book off iTunes to listen to on my ipod on the way to work. I didn’t listen to it today due to a disagreement with iTunes about what the words

iPod Sync Complete

actually mean, so instead listened to a loop of Tori Amos’ cover of I don’t like Mondays, something that may possibly concern my fellow commuters if they knew :-). So no opinion on it so far, other than if the intention is to stop people buying unofficial then they may want to consider lowering the price to something a little less extortionate;I mean for 50ukp I could probably buy all the sodding paper books and still have at least tenner left over.

This means I’ll be “reading” 3 books:

Annotated DragonLance Chronicles, amusing if only for the attempts to claim that spelling differences were intentional

Quicksilver, picked this up before I left for DESY along with Ursula le Guin’s Earthsea Quartet and didn’t manage to finish it before I came back, which is the first time on a work trip that I haven’t finished all my reading material by halfway through. Indeed even reading it throughout the train journeys up north and back again I’m still only 4/5s of the way through

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as mentioned above

Added the 4 previously tape pools from 60-63 to the appropriate pgroups
Looked at CMS problems with RB, jobs I submit finish but they report that theirs didn’t, noticed that they all appeared to go to FNAL, asked them to try somewhere else to see if it makes a difference.
Rebooted scrooge to fix X failing to login.
Continued updating stats to KSI2K- weekly is now done, now doing monthly