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One Broken Macbook Among Other Things

Lots of stuff has been going on over the past week or so in the Land of Andrew™ so I’ll try and sum it all up in a quick and painless read.

Five USB sticks purchased
Flashmeme is still alive and well in my brain, I now have the first set of 1GB USB sticks to send out and a plan for the site. I’m currently working out what to put on the sticks before I send them on their way, I then have a few days to code the site before they arrive at their destinations.. I like a challenge!

Watched IT Crowd Season 2 being filmed
Yep, I managed to bag some tickets to see the filming of an episode of The IT Crowd for the second seasons in Pinewood Studios. That was certainly the highlight of my month, the whole experience was awesome, plus I managed to get a few sneaky shots past the security guard! We also got interviewed on camera, so might even be on the DVD extra’s!

My Macbook has died
After a couple weeks of painful crashes, kernal panics, and multiple reinstalls the Macbook has finally given up the ghost. I’m pretty sure that the hard drive has gone but it’s still under warranty so I’m going to take it to see it’s maker, or at least an official apple reseller.

It’s a pretty crippling thing, losing a laptop. I’ve been living on it for the past 7 months and have become quite accustom to never being more than a few meters away from instant internet access and my multi-media hub as well.

I did a full backup to my Mac Mini before the HDD went down so no problems there but the lack of portability and internet access (still without internet at home) has been crippling me, I even pondered buying a second one but I think that may be a little extreme!

Got some new books
Transcending CSS, Don’t Make Me Think, Extreme Programming Pocket Guide and The Start-Up Survival Guide. So far so good, I’m liking all four of them especially Transcending CSS from Andy Clark.

Mike’s Gone to Canada
My great friend mike has moved to Toronto for a year on some kind of exchange thing, it looks really cool and wish him the best of luck. Plus it gives me a great excuse to go on holiday to North America in a couple months.. Look out USA!

Tickets taken offline
I’ve had to take tickets down for the time being, I had some troubles getting the Apache virtual host configuration working correctly, hopefully it will be back up in a week or two with some improvements and tweaks. Thanks to everyone who tried it out and left me feedback.

And Ryan still not finished step one of “Getting Ryan on Rails” so no step to just yet, so you know who to nag if your waiting for part 2!

There is also another PizzaOnRails tomorrow (tuesday) it would be great to meet up with some fellow Rails Ninjas if you in the London area.

I may have some more interesting news in the next couple days too, but I can’t say anything just yet… *wink*