Got into the office this morning, and the core vmware host server is down, the mirror for the boot drive barfed at around 60% when synchronising after a power failure.

Oh well, thats what mirroring is for after all, disconnected it and rebooted. nothing. no Grub nada. After running around getting a boot disk organised, making sure grub was installed etc, it STILL didn't work.

WTF!

After a bit more hair tearing, I realised the BIOS had promoted the wrong drive when i removed the dud one. Doh. Of course the data drives dont have grub on them at all.

After not much action for a few weeks, everything started happening at once!

A couple of pics attached

You've been hearing a lot about it in the news, and you're only going to hear more and more. If your business isn't looking into twitter, you're missing a boat thats growing massively - http://xlnk.me/16.

There are ways you can take advantage of twitter, the great thing about twitter is that you dont have to have a long spiel about what you've been doing. This, and other "blogs" i've done do take time, and a real concerted effort to do. Twitter "tweets" are a lot more casual.

We had about 435 to do, i reckon we got about half done this morning.

My knees ache. my back aches. Argh, i'm getting old.

If anyone is interested, we planted tubes of:

ACACIA brachybotra
ACACIA calamitolia
ACACIA hakeoides
ACACIA pycnantha
ACACIA sclerophylla

DODONAEA viscosa spatulata

EUCALYPTUS brachycalyx
EUCALYPTUS incrassata
EUCALYPTUS fasciculosa
EUCALYPTUS socialis

MELALEUCA lanceolata

Oh well, time to go for a ride on the mighty Husky I reckon!

Went to Trees for life this morning and picked up a bunch of trees from their excess stock to get our planting really started.

That should keep us busy for the weekend!

Took a couple of snaps of the back of the Forester filled with them.

Not sure how we're going to get all of the family home tonight, since trees are taking up the whole car.

Shockdoctor - http://www.shockdoctor.com have released a new product that can helps remove helmets in the advent of a serious accident.

http://www.xlnk.me/p

It is so simple, but so effective. If any sort of spinal injury is suspected, it allows the Helmet to be pushed off by the internal bladder.

Like a lot of great inventions, its very simple, and yet very clever, and very well priced as well for something that could save your life.

As we're living in a shed at the moment, and we needed a heater, I thought something a bit "industrial" would be ok. After some research, we purchased a "Jetfire" heater, which sure does throw out a lot of heat!

Trouble is, our shed is like 3.6metres high, so lots of warmth is a the top. Still, a HEAP better than no heater at all, with the nights getting closer and closer to 0C

Hunt for Gollum gets released for free on the 'net this weekend.

I hope their servers don't melt down. Checkout the trailers:

• Trailer 1
• Trailer 2

Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work I so need the upgrade.

Had to travel yesterday for my Uncles funeral, 960km in a day isn't bad. On the way we stopped at a park and walked the dogs around for a bit, and found these massive moths on the back of the toilet block.

They look big and scary enough to make up quite a story:

Here you see the Australian vampire moth, known to suck blood from other less dangerour Australian animals like Kangaroos, Koalas, Tasmanian Devils and more.