A good weekend

A short post this, more of a twitter-style entry. I’ve had a great weekend:

• I’ve had tons of time to spend with my lovely baby son. He’s 7lb 12oz now, so I’m a very happy Daddy.
• I’ve rewired my house’s ADSL and ethernet setup. My modem is now in the lounge instead of in a cupboard upstairs. I re-used the cable that used to connect the master phone socket in the lounge to the cupboard as an Ethernet cable. In the process I learnt that Ethernet only uses two twisted pairs out of the 8 that are in CAT5 — just as well as the dodgy cable the BT engineer installed only had three twisted pairs in it.
• I’ve taken three carloads of crap harvested from the loft to the dump. I’ve boarded out a load more loft giving me even more storage space. It’s now ready to consign even more stuff to a prolonged attic purgatory. In doing so I managed to bring xania.org down (which lives in a corner up there). The downtime was due to me accidentally unplugging it to power in a drill, exacerbated by the stupid BIOS which requires a keyboard to be plugged in to be able to boot — else it says “Keyboard error - hit F1 to continue” (I kid you not!)

Lots of cool things to look forward to at work this week too.