- Some text incoming here, I warn you.Here's Asher. He's a little under 2 years old but we don't know for sure what age. His original owners apparently moved house and LEFT HIM BEHIND, literally abandoning him. He was probably just over a year old at that point.Thankfully the neighbours tried to take care of him but he ended up living outside as they couldn't take him in. They fed him and took care of him until they could get him a slot at a shelter. He landed at the second shelter a little later as the original shelter was not a no-kill shelter and he was on borrowed time. That's when I got the lead on him and it's taken a few weeks to get everything sorted out. Last night Asher came home. I caught this picture of him after just about an hour of being home. I think he's comfortable.He's a huge love-bug. He wants nothing more than to be petted and loved. Not surprising with what he's been through. I've got some training to do… he's housetrained and knows some basic commands but he's also still a puppy… "stay" seems to be problematic LOL.He and Nanuq are getting along just fine. I think we'll have a few scuffles over rawhides as Nanuq's used to having them all to himself and Asher likes them too. But nothing we can't handle.Welcome home, Asher. We're so happy to have you.#siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - February 1, 2026
- I make the best bad decisions. Say hi to Asher (left)#siberianhusky #huskiesofinstgram - January 31, 2026
- Classing it up tonight on the first night of a much needed long weekend away. Do not chug… - December 17, 2025
It’s been hell at work again. Typical.
Six months ago I dropped support for our Windows 2000 Server build primarily because we were moving to a Windows 2003 environment. I developed the build myself using VB Scripts, an imaging engine and Windows PE… it works pretty well and is very flexible. However, because of the difficulty in maintaining two seperate build-trees I rescinded future development of the 2000 build and instead chose to focus on Windows 2003.
Fast-forward to last Friday. It appears that because of a vendor not supporting the 2003 platform yet, suddenly I have to break out of storage all of my old working source trees for Windows 2000 and create a brand new image. Why? Well, in the last six months HP has gone through a major hardware refresh… and guess what doesn’t install on the new DL380G4 servers (our standard baseline server for the majority of our applications). Great. Three days of solid work to get a working, tested build on DL380G4’s and now I have a headache.
On the bright side, yesterday we got a pair of AMD64 machines; a DL385 and DL585, each with 8GB of RAM. Woohoo! Playtime!
On the home front… well I’m mostly tinkering with the bike now. Haven’t actually had a chance to ride it yet because I still have to deal with all the state paperwork to make it legal on the roads. I’ve been tinkering with it though, just making it “My bike”. Also I’ve really not had time or the weather’s not been good. Weirdest thing? Went through the garage this morning because I needed to get my fuel tester (weather permitting I’m going flying after work this evening), and on the floor next to the bike is oil. Not a lot, granted… but a pretty serious smattering. Weird thing is, the oil is behind the tailpipe and under the left turn signal at the rear. Last I checked nothing back there had any oil. I need to figure that one out… I guess that’s what I’ll be working on Saturday morning.
On the MythTV front… well it’s stable as hell in version 0.18. I’ve still got to take some pics of the setup and post them up on this blog for your enjoyment, but rest assured that the suite is awesome. Are there glitches? Yeah, certainly… but I can more than happily live with them. Next problem; running out of disk space. I think it’s probably time to invest in a SATA controller and a pair of 200Gb drives 🙂