Time has become very short for myself. I leave tomorrow for my wedding to my beautiful fiancee and will be out of contact until October. Unless you’re coming to South Africa, I will be completely out of contact. After the wedding, I’ll be completely out of contact for the honeymoon. Sarah have you guessed where it is yet?
Cheers!
Tired but happy. More coffee please. And Jon, can I please have the photos? 
I received a nice present on Friday. After much deliberation, Sarah went and bought me/us a Canon 350D for our wedding present. Wow, what a camera. I haven’t finished the degree you seem to require to get through the manual but the photos that come out of this beauty are fantastic. The quality and clearness are fantastic and the camera has such a brilliant shutter speed, I can’t wait to test this thing out properly.
Below is a photo I took of Sarah and Charlie this morning. Click through to see the full sizes.
In the past two days:
Primary domain controller crash: Two out of our 3 drives in the RAID 5 array died leaving us with no data left. Dell were very helpful but there is nothing they can do. Everything gone. We’re still rebuilding and Exchange will not install. Active directory is luckily still up on a BDC but building this the server is turning into a bitch. On another note, no one in the office has email because exchange is down. Yum
Phone system crash: No outgoing calls which means no connection to HSBC (they require modem connections) . This also means that none of our clients can be paid.
Launch of new Accounting Engine: Going smoothly but added on top of the above we’re starting to show cracks in the good nature that is inherent in IT people. 
One month until I get married: Lots to do, no time to do it - see above.
The lack of updates on this blog have been annoying but something I’ve needed to cut back on to start and finish some important work.
I have almost one month until I’m a married man (can’t wait). The preparations that still need to be done are small but they are there. Suits on Saturday!
I have two pretty interesting projects coming out of the Absolute Value labs. Nothing I can speak about as of yet, but both are BSD licensed and will be put either on Sourceforge or Google’s Code repository. They are pretty exciting (if small) projects and I hope they’ll be used.
On top of that we’re putting out a new release of the accounting engine in our office. I’ve been pushing to convert to .NET 2.0 before to help in some of the areas we are lacking but the timescales won’t allow this. So I’m stuck developing in 1.1 for the moment which on top of constructing reports makes for pretty boring work.
So once these are out of the way, full steam ahead with my website. I need to spend some time with it to polish it a little. I’ve been developing with the Subtext team and am looking to move the blog onto that platform so I’ll probably be doing that after September.
Wrote this post on Windows Live Writer. Pretty impressive. Especially how it picks up your blog style automatically. And its only beta! 
Today is the 1 year anniversary of the tube bombings in London. My thoughts are with the people and their families that were affected by the terrible actions of the misguided bombers.
My thoughts go out to the family of Monika who was a much loved colleague. We do miss you!
Hitting crunch period big time at work currently and my body is starting to tell me of the strain. Can anyone recommend a supplement to keep me going (vitamins a definite requirement)?