Matt Charlton

See, I’ve even decorated my blog.

This template did have some snow coming down, but the javascript didn’t want to work properly and it was adding a second or so delay onto the site load time, plus it looked gay so I’ve removed it.  Probably something to do with it not being 100% compatible with Wordpress 2.7

I’ve also removed the snow controls from the bottom of the template as they were no longer needed. 

Not sure if I’ve finished playing yet, I love the look of the theme, the content column could do with being just a little wider perhaps.  Playing with PHP is fun (when it’s properly commented). 

I’ve been doing some Xmas shopping this evening.  Still need to do a bit more but I managed to pick up a few bits and pieces which is good.  Car is sorted and it’s not going to cost us a fortune which is excellent news (Thanks Mick)

It’s bizarre – I feel more awake now than I did at 5pm, 7pm even.  Today just completely took it out on me.  I can say this much – I’m ready for Christmas, no doubt about it. 

Very cold tonight.  You forget just how cold it gets in Winter – especially when you have a cool Summer.  Bloody freezing.  I think I need to find my hat and gloves for work tomorrow.

Thank you very much to everyone who expressed concern after yesterday’s post.  This week hasn’t been the best of weeks but hopefully things will improve from here on in. 

/*Today has been a fairly interesting day, filled with ups and downs.  I’ve had a couple of meetings with my managers who are going to look into the issues I’ve raised.  I’ve also been told that I have to learn PHP.  Something I wanted to do anyway.  PHP ftw.*/

(see what I did there?) 

On to the down.  The car is fucked.  The fan belt went whilst Sue was on her way to the White Rose centre.  I think it really is my car and it didn’t like the idea of her going and spending money :p

She’s fine, she managed to reach junction 28 and managed to get the car off the road.  We’ve got roadside recovery as part of the banking package so we got recovered to a garage and they tried to sort it for us.  They won’t get the part in until Monday so we’re carless until then. 

The other up is that I noticed today that mobile phones are now insured through the bank, just had to register the numbers and the IMEI numbers and I’ve cancelled the O2 Premier insure.  Looks like exactly the same policy to me – same £25 excess.  That’ll save us £15 a month between us on the contracts.  Great stuff.

So, things are looking better at work, my head is still a little fuzzy and I’m feeling physically and mentally exhausted – I can’t tell if I’m coming down with something. 

Hopefully a good night’s sleep tonight and a fairly relaxing weekend will set me up for a better week next week. 

Plus its December 1st on Monday – Christmas decorations have to go up!

Yay!

I didn’t leave work until 19:35 tonight.

I got there at around 07:45.  Just under 12 hours.

Thats crazy.

The problem is, we’re getting that many calls and tickets in at the moment that it’s just all mounting up.  Today was one of those days where you just don’t seem to make any headway.  I think I managed to get through more work from 17:00-19:35 than I did for the entire day.  Just the chance to work through without interruption means you can get so much done.  I’m quite pleased with the progress I made and hopefully now things will level off and we can get through the rest of the week.

It’s funny – my back was really uncomfortable last night, woke up and it was much the same, most of the morning it felt like it needed cracking (like knuckles).  It seems to have eased off after we went for a walk at lunch.

Think I’ve decided on a direction for the linux box.  I think I’m going to either register a new domain or set up an A record and MX record for a new subdomain on a domain and work through setting up a mail server with various bits and pieces.  Once that’s setup I’m going to look at some sql and php development.

In other news, I’ve installed the new beta 2 of Wordpress 2.7.  There are a bunch of changes to the back end and it looks really, really nice.  Awesome in fact.

There probably won’t be so many changes to the front end, maybe one or two new widgets but this is mainly a backend thing.  Really loving the new changes, it just looks so much more web 2.0 rather than the old fashioned interface.

I’m sleepy.