Right then you blog whores, it is now 2:30 am and I am sitting on the night train from Trondheim to Bodo. As some of you might already know, Norway is completely light in the summer months. When people say this they are not exaggerating. It is completely light out as if it were 6pm. There is not a hope in hell of me getting to sleep. I've had great fun so far, doing all sorts of stuff from having a beer in the “hip” part of Oslo to eating fried cod freshly caught by me on the seashore.
It had been great in Trondheim as I had wifi access. my cousins neighbour and my cousin share internet costs and have a wireless network. My eyes light up when I saw that access point.
I applied for tons of jobs there the other day, some really nice e-learning ones and some LAMP ones too. No response as of yet but we'll have to wait and see.
I might have mentioned before but I have decided to make my main home OS of choice Suse. I bought Suse 9.1 Pro and will be installing it on my new system once I get settled again when I get home. I have read some really good reviews so i am looking forward to it. KDevelop and Ximian Evolution looks really good.
Speaking of new systems, I haven't bought one yet but I reckon I will go for a system from Komplett.co.uk. I could have a really good AMD 3000+ cpu, 1024MB Ram, 120GB, DVD, CDRW, Case, Fan etc. for under GBP500 which is pretty good.
Over the last while I have bought a but of hardware for my new office. I have a new 4 port KVM with USB functionality so I will be able to switch between my OSX,SUSE,XPPro systems with the touch of a button. PCWorld fucked up on the price (as they continually do) so I got it for 90 Euro instead of about 140 :). I also recently bought a Zoom X5 adsl modem/router/4 port switch/firewall combi. It has had good reviews so once I get the ancient phone system in the house fixed, I'll be flying.
While hooked up to my drip of wifi access over the last few days I have been on ebay and bought ADSL microfilters (4 for GBP10), Twin Digital phones (GBP28), One Port Print Server (GBP14), Handsfree for my T630 (GBP4). All in all very good and I reckon I will be getting my laser printer from ebay soon too.
I don't think I have ever had a blog this long, but I'll keep going. Opel/Vauxhall the money grabbing bastards want GBP 75 to get a certificate of conformance so I can register the car in the UK, really fucking annoying.
Last week I also bought a DVD player. I saw on Richersounds.co.uk that they had a factory repack of an acoustic solutions multiregion for GBP25 giving a savings of over GBP100. I snapped one up in their Chester store, the remote didn't work first off, but after a replacement, that's all fixed. I have entered the multiregion code yet so I'm not sure if that works yet. It plays all the “Dodgy” Dvds I got in Malayisa so it's all good.
As you can probably tell it has been spend spend spend since I got back, trying to set myself up in the new house, so I am desperatley in need of work, I'll be back in the wonderful Pizza Hut before you know it.
That's for too much for now but I'll post again soon… Sya