I kept working on the javascript, then a bit on Oracle, didn't really get far on either of them, it was for too hot to be able to think straight.

Someone came around, and said that if anyone wanted to leave, they were free to put 5pm on their timesheet, and go home, since it was too hot in the building.

About 3.30pm, I went for a walk around, and then went and hid in the computer room for a bit, since the air conditioning was fine in there, and it was comfortable.

I decided to have a look at a server in there that keeps having problems, and crashing (windows of course), I thought I'd have a look at the current memory usage, and it had already crapped itself, since I rebooted it yesterday.

I rebooted it again, and found that it had a bunch of services running on it, that it really shouldn't have, like iis, and all the other web stuff, smtp, nntp, dhcp server, dns server, sql server, project server (that no one uses), I disabled it all, and rebooted it again.

It still complained that something failed at start up, I found it was something to do with appletalk. WTF?

I went and looked at the network adapters, the one that was disabled had appletalk bound to it, I tried to uninstall it, but it wouldn't let me.

I went in to the windows components thing, and found that print services for mac, and for unix were installed. Why on earth are they on here?? I removed it all, and then found that appletalk has disappeared from the network adapters. I rebooted it again, hopefully it's fixed now.

I was about to go back out of the computer room, at a bit after 4pm, when the guy in IT came in, and wanted me to look at the script I'd helped him with again.

We went out and looked at that, I found that he just needed to trim some more off the path of the files to be archived, I just had a put an extra "cut" command in the script.

I put that in the script, ran it again, it looked like it was right.

He wanted to go for a smoke, so I went outside for a few minutes, going out in to the heat will make the building not feel so bad when I come back inside.

It was now about 4.15pm. We went back inside, I went back to my desk again.

I mucked around a bit more with the javascript, and I discovered that the stuff I had written was working in Internet Exploiter, but not in Firefox, I then discovered it was because the examples I was working off, that had "InnerText" in them, turn out to be IE specific.

A bit before 5pm, the guy came down, and said he was going to the pub, so I grabbed my stuff, and left too.

It was still hot outside, but now it looked like it was going to be a massive storm.

I moved my bike down behind the pub, went in, found a couple of guys from work.

One of the guys in there, who works in the IT group, commented on my Led Zeppelin shirt, and we chatted about that for a minute.

The guy from work turned up, with the chick from lunch, and I went in to buy them drinks, since the last few days while we've been out, everyone's been buying me drinks, and I never get a chance, and feel really slack.

On Thursday's they have a happy hour thing where you throw some dice on the bar, and if the dice add up higher than what the bartender throws, you get the drink for free.

One of the guys had gone in just before me, and bought me a lemon squash, which he'd got for free, I asked for the 2 drinks, and I got one of them for free,

I went back into the table with them, we sat down for a bit, and chatted.

Someone commented on how dark it was outside, and I thought "bugger it, I'm not sitting here until it starts pissing down", so I said I was sorry, but that I was going to be rude, and take off before the rain, I skulled the rest of my drink, and took off. It was now about 5.20pm.

I was over in the carpark behind the pub getting on my bike, when I saw another guy from work, He said he'd been looking on the Bureau of Meteorology website, on the cloud radar, and it was coming in from the west. I wasn't taking any chances.

I took off, and raced for the freeway, no worries.

I got on the freeway, and headed for home. It was unreal, huge lightning strikes coming down straight in front of me (though a long way away, I couldn't hear the thunder).

I got a few spots of rain, it was really dark behind me, what I could see in my mirror, so it was pretty much chasing me.

I'd made it about 2/3 of the way home, when it started pissing down, I rolled off the throttle a bit, stuck it directly in the wheel track of the cars in front, and just raced through it.

It was only raining for a couple of kilometres, and then it all stopped. The road was still wet for a few more k's, but after that, it was all dry, and my clothes started to dry out.

I got off the freeway, and got to the supermarket, there was just a light sprinkling of rain when I got there. I went in, got the stuff I needed.

I was at the checkout, when it started pouring down outside, it had been chasing me all the way home, and finally caught up.

By the time I'd paid, and was about to go, it stopped again, so I rushed out, chucked the stuff in my bike, and took off for home, it was just a little sprinkling again, I got home fine, it was about 6.30pm.

When I came inside, I realised there had been a blackout at some point, and the power had come back on at 3pm.

I went about fixing everything up again.

It started raining outside again, it was a weird night, a little bit of rain, then heavy rain for a few seconds.

Anyway, I put the dinner on to cook.

I'd meant to bring the photos of the guy at work home with me, to make up a joke screensaver, but I'd forgotten.

I remembered that I had vpn access, so I vpn'd in, zipped up the images, put them on a server where I could get them externally, and downloaded them.

In the meanwhile, I went about trying to find a program to make up a screensaver, preferably something free, I didn't have much luck at finding anything to do that.

I thought about finding my old copy of wise installer, and writing something in there, but I couldn't be bothered. I ended up finding a program that would do it.

Once the images were downloaded, I went about resizing them, added them into the program, along with an mp3 ("I'm Too Sexy" by "Right Said Fred" :-), and compiled it into a screensaver.

Dinner was ready by now, so I had that.

I mucked around with the screensaver files, but it was a pain, it had to be installed, created a directory, and the pictures and mp3 were all separate, it was a bit messy, I started writing a batch file to install it, since we need to be able to do it from the login script.

It was all too messy, I found another program, redid the screensaver, this one was better, it put everything into the scr file.

I then went about working out where the registry settings were, so I could install it from the login script, found all that, made up reg files to load.

There was an issue though, the registry setting that holds the time delay befor the screensaver starts doesn't take effect properly, until you reboot, but other things do. Oh well.

I worked out what had to go in the login script, copying files, merging the reg files etc, it all looked good.

I vpn'd into work again, and uploaded the stuff to my pc at work.

I tried to reimage the 2gb (test) disk for the new tivo, but it's too small now, so I gave up in that.

I watched soem stuff on the tivo, a U2 concert from a few days ago.

The guy who looks after the PAL mode kernel module had emailed me a beta version about a week ago, I finally got around to installing it (he'd given up waiting, and released it anyway), after I put it in, the recreated the node, and rebooted, my tivo UI sounds were back again, that was good, I was worried the sound chip was stuffed.

It was a bit late now, so I went to bed.