One of Abi’s favorite games recently has been to pretend to be on the telephone, having a conversation with someone and then pass the phone around saying “I’ll just pass you over to Daddy”. Today when she passed the phone over to me, we had the following conversation: Me (talking on the toy phone): Hello? Really? Why did she do that? Abi (protesting profusely): I didn’t!

Abi has recently decided that she wants a boat Abi: Can you give me some money? Me: How much do you need? Abi: Mummy, how much do we need? Mummy: £20,000 Abi: Yes (looking at me) Me: Sorry I haven’t got that much

(Drawn on the computer with a stylus)

I seem to have started more books than I can read at the moment, currently I’ve got the following on the go: The Bible - Both NIV and ESV (currently reading through Exodus, and dipping into 1 and 2 Peter) Know and Tell the Gospel - John Chapman Effective Men’s Ministry - NCMM 15 Minutes Alone with God for Men - Bob Barnes

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I created the twitter feed based on a JSON feed of the geographic location of the minibus provided by my colleague. I then compare the coordinates of the minibus with a set of bounding boxes stored in a database. If the bus is within squares defined in the database, then the pre-defined description is sent to twitter so that anyone following the bus can receive updates as to where it is.

lvextend -L +2G /dev/basevg/var_lib_mysql Add 2GB to the logical volume var_lib_mysql in basevg resize2fs /dev/basevg/var_lib_mysql Resize the filesystem /dev/basevg/var_lib_mysql Other useful commands: vgs list volume groups lvs list logical volumes

du -m | sort -nr | head du -m summarises disk usage from current path recursively (in megabytes) sort -nr sorts the output numerically in reverse head restricts output to the top 10 lines adapted from Linux Reviews

I’ve been playing about with Portable Ubuntu for Windows, as a replacement for my secondary machine at work, and customised the system a bit for my liking. This is going to be a working post for me to add notes on what I’ve changed so that I can find it again! Initially I was planning to build my own image based on Cooperative Linux, but decided that as Portable Ubuntu for Windows had most things configured it made a better starting point.