OK, I guess we’re going to Switzerland then! I finally managed to transfer €1,068.75 through Paypal. Airfares would be the next thing to organize…
No day is complete without the motorist du jour…. There I was, just leaving work this evening, glancing around as I hopped on my bike and started to ride off. I half noticed a car driving through the car park but ignored it — we were separated by a large mound of dirt, it was at least fifty metres away, and heading away from me — it was little threat and could be ignored… I thought.
The sudden BOOM brought my attention back. My head whipped around, the car had stopped, the driver was getting out… I rode across the car park, first noticing the flattened road sign, then the crumpled front of the car. Somehow the student had not noticed, and had then driven into and demolished, a 3m high parking restriction sign.
There was an impressive amount of damage to the car, the headlights looked as though they were facing each other. The student was unharmed, but somewhat shaken. I rode off as he was trying helplessly to stand the parking sign back in its hole in the ground.
Fun and games this evening with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client. I’d told it to remember my password, then changed my password externally. Couldn’t find any method from within Thunderbird of making it forget the old password. Eventually editted the line out of the config file in $HOME/.thunderbird/default/<random>.slt/<random>.s and restarted it!
