Set off to work by electric pushbike this morning thinking that I wouldn’t really need my gloves. How wrong I was. In fact, it got so bad that I stopped off at Sainsburys and bought a £9 pair of fleece-lined leather gloves. Legs were quite a bit cold despite wearing thermal lined leggings. I think tomorrow I might need the under thermals as well. Eek. I think it’s safe to say it’s now PROPER winter.
Was very glad to receive an email at work from the University of Surrey asking for feedback from cyclists who cycle in and out of the Surrey Research Park. Have sent back an email to the Uni telling them exactly what it’s like. It’s not generally pleasant ever since the Royal Surrey Hospital opened it’s new car park. That said, it’s always been bad when you leave the Research Park around 4pm. You see loads of cars all backed up around Occam Road waiting to get into Gill Avenue as everybody waits for cars to come out the hospital car parks, people crossing at the out-of-action traffic lights, and having to deal with a nightmare roundabout at the end of it all. There’s not much point asking for cycle lanes as there is just no room for them. The best I think us cyclists can hope for is a dual pavement/cycle access lane. Who knows?
Have also been tinkering with servers to get them PCI compliant. You’ll all be pleased to know that the miniserver this blog sits upon has passed with flying colours (albeit with some caveats). I even recompiled and installed the very latest OpenSSH on this box to go above and beyond what is required by some of these PCI checkers.
Finally – after a good few days of solid use, I’m pleased to say that I absolutely adore Thunderbird 3 (albeit I’m running a release candidate!). It’s far exceeded my expectations and I’ve even moved from Apple Mail on the work Macbook to Thunderbird 3. No major issues encountered so far.
