Project 4Fifteen

The new harddisk has not arrived yet, so it will take a wee while before the machines get updated. On the other hand, I had to cope with more machines going tits-up. After a long investigation for some tools to fix things, I found this site by Daniel Petri. He has some really interesting articles on fixing XP when things go wrong. The system I had was crashing during a boot. No doubt being out of space or something. These tools helped fantasticaly.
It has a mix of Linux and M$ tools on one cd to get into most machines. Loads of opportunity to customise them.
Things are changing rapidly for me at the office, with the prospect of being involved with something big. More on this later.

*phew* what a hectic few days. I tallied up my hours of sleep and during 72 hours, I only managed a mere 9.5 hours. This was largely due to a fantastic time with some new friends. 3 solid days of ‘business’. I was with the contingent from Iraq. Basically there are loads of pictures, but I would need to get some authorisation before I post them. I took loads of piccies with new phone. Some came out quite nice.
I will post some more stuff about JT, Eddie, Paul, Al, Mark and Nigel. Apart from giving the poor PSD (American for VIP bodyguard) a very hard time, we had a marvelous time.

My harddisk also failed on this machine. A new one will be installed tomorrow. In the meantime before I upload more stuff and add the missing days, this will have to do.

Well, the day started off rather quietly. I was supposed to have a lecture attendance of 35 people. A grand total of 2 showed up. The rest had an excuse that there was a sandstorm in Baghdad and could not make it to the course. Nice. I also got zapped by a bluetooth bomb on my mobile. Someone/Something decided I needed a dose of a DDoS. My phone was rendered inoperable until I reset to the factory settings and resynced with my laptop. Nice of some chaps to do it.

Myself, Nigel and Mark had a great time in the hotel pool area. It was just the R&R we needed. Their VIP protection team collected them at 19:30 sharp to be escorted back their base. Marvelous.
Just as they left, a crew from a BA flight arrived and were seated at a table near us. I invited myself (the shy and withdrawn type that I am) and we had a few drinks together. The bill was remarkebly small, (about 11 JD) but a good time was had. I am really honoured to have met Lee, Tim, Francis, Sharon, Claire and some cool dude whose name I honestly cant remember. Later I had a great discussion with Phil about world peace etc etc..
Well its kinda late now and if I want to be on good behaviour I should get to bed now.

Well, the day started off rather quietly. I was supposed to have a lecture attendance of 35 people. A grand total of 2 showed up. The rest had an excuse that there was a sandstorm in Baghdad and could not make it to the course. Nice. Myself, Nigel and Mark had a great time in the hotel pool area. It was just the R&R we needed. Their VIP protection team collected them at 19:30 sharp to be escorted back their base. Marvelous.
Just as they left, a crew from a BA flight arrived and were seated at a table near us. I invited myself (the shy and withdrawn type that I am) and we had a few drinks together. The bill was remarkebly small, (about 11 JD) but a good time was had. I am really honoured to have met Lee, Tim, Francis, Sharon, Claire and some cool dude whose name I honestly cant remember. Later I had a great discussion with Phil about world peace etc etc..
Well its kinda late now and if I want to be on good behaviour I should get to bed now.

Having travelled to Frankfurt from Edinburgh, on touch-down a passenger fell ill and presumably died. (No idea what the causes were). I was sitting in the first row in business class, so it was kinda difficult to rubberneck all the way down in economy. Had a beer (or few) in the lounge while we waited the 5 hours till our flight was due. The onward flight from Frankfurt to Amman was pretty uneventful apart from the applause on a very hard landing. It only took 3 hours 50 minutes, which is not bad for a flight that takes over 5 hours usually.
Arriving in Amman was great, as I got moved through the diplomatic channels while the rest had to go through long queues
Finally got to the hotel at 4am. Up at 8:30 to have food at 9am. I went shopping for swimming trunks and t-shirts. I foolishly left those out of my luggage. *doh*