Grandma and Grandpa are working on their house. I’ve been hacking away at a new blog for them.

Especially pleased with the Lightbox support for pictures. I’ll see how it goes and maybe put it across to the main photo blog.

I’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 - so far so good.

I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well - that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.

Some great podcasts from Mark Haddad - an ITIL trainer.

Here and also on this website.

[Edit: Updated with correct download url]

Two weeks of back-to-back training.

Last week Service Support in Birmingham, this week Service Delivery in London.

All in aid of getting the ISEB Managers Certificate in IT Service Management.

Just over a month to the exams; two three hour written papers. Time to get reading and revising.

Away from home and the WordPress updates come in..

2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.

I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog - that fixed a lot of problems

New hardware for Jon and Laurence:

>> Now if you’ve got a 2 x dual CPUs, 6Gb ram , gigabit NIC etc.. then  
>> naturally you want an operating system that can make full use of this.  
>>   
>> Dell have supplied such a beast  
>>   
>> FreeDOS.  
>>   

Now we all know that Dell supply FreeDOS to keep the license and bundling police happy.. But what could you run on a new machine that’s less than useful..

Our ideas so far:

NetWare 2.2 with WordStar in the DOS memory
OS/2 Warp
DOS 6.2 with MAME as an arcade emulator
GNU/Hurd for the purists
Digital Research GEM
CP/M-86 with Wordstar and dBase II

So may sad ideas - here’s a list of current alternative OS:

http://www.freeos.com/compare/

What do you think?