Andrew's diary

Tuesday, 30 March 2004

"Scattered showers" -> "mostly cloudy". The BBC's five-day forecast takes the more positive view of "sunny intervals" :-)

Sunday, 28 March 2004

Bypassed the CUPS problem by converting the PostScript to PDF and printing them using Epson's own C82 driver from Mel's laptop. The quality's not as good, but to be honest we're just glad to get them out of the way.

Weather.com changed their forecast for next Saturday from "showers" to "scattered showers": that's a good sign, that is.

Saturday, 27 March 2004

Argh! A week to go! Started sorting the order of services but had no end of trouble with CUPS printing PostScript files: it'd print half a page successfully and then either spool blank sheets or print long barcode-esque patterns. I'm fairly convinced that it's actually a CUPS (or pstoraster or similar) problem, but upgrading the box from Debian/stable to Debian/testing didn't help :-(

Mel and I went out in the evening to Bistro Je T'aime as a sort of final "date" - weather was nice enough to walk in to town and we had an absolutely lovely three course meal with wine, aperitifs and coffee.

Friday, 26 March 2004

The school opposite the church have sent a pricelist in response to our informal letter asking if we could use the playground for some cars! This seems a little off, and not something they've previously done. I'm tempted to tell them to sod off, but we'll see...

Saturday, 20 March 2004

Combined (but separate) stag/hen night. Mel, her colleagues, my mother and Linda headed off to a night out in Basingstoke; whilst I, David, Robert, Sprow, Glen, Juggler, stan and Dave went out for tapas. Never had it before, but it was good fun, plenty of beer was drunk and a good time had by all (I think!).

Saturday, 13 March 2004

Upgraded the RiscPC to 2MB of VRAM, so now've got 1280x1024 @ 67Hz goodness (*cough*), also decided that RISC OS needs a decent high-level object oriented language so finally got around to starting my Java parser. The idea's to take Java source and compile it into BASIC (so that the existing WimpWorks libraries can be reused). Obviously a new class library will have to be written, but I think I'll concentrate on the simple Turing-complete stuff first.