I first woke up about 7am, the tv was still on. I just rolled over and went back to sleep.

I woke up again about 10.20am, the phone was ringing.

I got out of bed and answered it, it was my mate I go to dinner with. I noticed the tv had gone black, obviously the software running on the old pc has been lagging too long, and the box has given up, and is just sitting there dumb.

I spoke to my mate on the phone, he'd called me again last night, wanting to know what to do about a machine that was locking up for no apparent reason, I suggested that he use SpinRite to test the hard disk thouroughly, and Memtest86 to scan all the RAM, in case it's some obscure hardware problem.

Alternatively, he could try reinstalling Windows on the machine, perhaps on a different hard disk, as a test.

Anyway, he called me this morning, because he couldn't find any of the software I'd told him about last night, he'd emailed me the this morning, but I hadn't replied. (I'm not that much of an email addict).

He wanted to know if I was going to be in all day, I said probably (forgetting that I have to finish getting the rego sorted on my bike), and that he would pop in the get the software after he went to a funeral this morning. I'd never met the guy who passed on.

I got off the phone, ate some breakfast.

I looked at the machine running the sat software, it had stuffed up, windows had gone to a black screen with the mouse moving around as usual. I reset the machine, set it all up again, and it's back working. Working a bit better than last night too, I think the reboot has increased the performance of the software, it's not blipping and blopping as much (almost not at all) when the keys change.

Time to finish getting this webserver setup, and then I have to drag the Tigris out and work out who to configure it. It's probably got a password I'll have to break in and change on it, and I'll probably need some weird serial cable to get in on the console port.