Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Just over a month into the new regime, and I'm already doing a mile or so a day on the home cross-training machine.

What's most pleasing is that I'm starting to see the effects. I was able to get the really heavy boxes up the ladder and into the loft while helping tamaranth move house. There's also definitely less of me round the waist and the thighs - in fact I'm already two notches into a belt I'd had to stop wearing.

Go me!

And I'm now seriously considering getting some running shoes so I can at least get a little jogging in while we're away round the world...

...and it's letting in data.

We got out the big drill bit again today, and put a hole through the wall between the office and the lounge. Feeding cat 5 ethernet cabling through it was a little tricky (I wasn't as straight as I could have been going through the wall), but marypcb found a use for an old cat toy, and we soon got the cable through using it and some wire.

Still, that's the media PC hooked up to the music, photo and video files on the 1TB NAS by 100Mbps wire rather than through a 802.11G wireless connection to an AP at the other end of the house. At some point soon I'll dig out the old 8 port switch and give the lounge a switched connection, and hook up another AP to improve coverage.

It's good to have power tools.

Something of a watershed here, as there now seem to be at least three hundred of you reading this thing through LJ, and an indeterminate number of folks from the rest of the blogosphere.

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Feel free to introduce yourselves to each other!