I finally leave work at the end of this week. Don’t ever let anyone try to convince you that signing a contract with a three month notice period is a good thing. Mm.

So, I’ve been “working from home” for the last couple of weeks. Hm, that makes it sound like a pleasant semi-holiday period, doesn’t it? And it’s true that the volume of work’s been reduced - no development work to support, and far fewer ops work now that we’ve transferred our public-facing services elsewhere, for a start. But, er, I’ll write a bit more about that at some stage in the future.

Anyway, the most productive thing I’ve done of late (apart from a quick spot of gallivanting) is to rip 343 cds to nice pristine FLAC format (and then transcoded from there to 128 and 256 kbps oggs for portability). Which is, er, about 100 more than I’ve managed to rip in the past eight months. At this rate, I might have my entire library finished at some stage in 2009. Go me, etc.

Anyway, to be written-about in the near future: the decline & fall of Sendit.com, the joys of job-hunting, and various techie bits (moving VMs from Xen to KVM to ESX and back again, observations on CPU vs I/O vs power consumption, the joy of having a properly-configured working environment, etc). All with an absolute minimum of emoicity. Hurrah!

344 CDs ripped now. Can I really own *that* much shoegaze-y stuff? Er, yes, it appears that I can. Oops.