After months and months of deciding what to do, I finally decided to go to the Boston Summit. Sadly I have to pay for it out of my own pocket, but still, it will be the first gnome meeting I will have been to, so am quite looking forward to it (especially as the entire galeon dev team will be there).
If anyone knows of any cheap hotels that are convenient please let me know!
For ages now, Ubuntu has been failing to apt-get update properly. I have finally tracked down the problem, and it is the useless “transparent” proxy that my ISP (NTL) use. It has totally broken If-Range support. Basically it doesn’t return any HTTP response headers, and so apt gets confused.
I have raised an ubuntu bug in the hope that an option can be added to avoid using If-Range. And I have sent an email to NTL to let them know of the problem. I’m not at all hopefull that NTL will get it fixed, but perhaps the Ubuntu peeps will take pity on me 
Sadly, the building work is in pretty much a worse state than when I left, now we don’t have a usable shower, and there was no hot water this morning. It’s now almost 4 weeks, and I am starting to get really annoyed.
On a brighter note, we won the Ashes. Cricket is one of the worlds most misunderstood game, sure they play for 5 days, have a break for tea, and then end in a draw, but it is still a tense game when played between 2 evenly matched teams. A few good balls is the bowling sides needs to make the batting side collapse in spectacular fashion (Australia on Sunday). And the batting side just needs a few dodgy balls to get the score climbing (Pieterson hitting them for 6 today).
All in all, a good summer for the English cricketors.
For the last few weeks, I have been having some building work done in my rented house. We are having a brand new bathroom fitted. Unfortunately the builders keep running into problems, first they found a pipe leaking which mean’t that they needed to replace a ceiling in one of the downstairs room. And now, apparently, they can’t turn off the mains water, so they had to call out the water board.
All this was happening while I was in Monza on holiday, so I got back to a real building site, with mains water turned off, no hot water, no tiles in the bathroom, and builders rubble everywhere. I just hope they get all this sorted by the weekend as I’m off to see my parents now for a few days.
It will be nice when it is all finished, but at the moment I can’t see when that will be 
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