A mish-mash of things today I think.
A bank has granted my loan request, so I’m well on the way to getting my central heating upgraded, and I’ll be able to get my kitchen done, along with a shower (I only have a bath right now, and that’s quite irritating) and possibly even my parking spot. Better control of my heating bills will be wonderful, as will thermostat controlled heating. A kitchen upgrade is desperately needed too - I have no (working) oven, a stove, 4 cupboards and a sink. One wall in the kitchen is currently dead, though the central heating upgrade will change the dead wall to one I don’t use anyway, making it possible to really enhance the kitchen.
I’ve been poking Asterisk for a while now, setting myself up as my own tel-co. I’ve ordered two £39 boxes, which are waiting for Paypal to clear funds. One is for me, the other for Dad - he’s supplying the PSTN cards - and we’ll be setting up dedicated PBX boxes that can bridge PSTN to VoIP and back. Add in my bluetooth adaptor which can sense when my mobile is at home or not, and I can do follow-me for certain callers, VoIP dialing from work via a local call and more. Very nifty.
I happened to e-mail one of the Kopete developers about the KJS Kopete client I put together a while back, and he’s interested in using it as a sample tutorial for doing nifty things with Kopete, so I’ll be looking to polish up the blog entry and make it something useful to someone. Yay me I guess!
On the downside, my A75 has developed hot pixels (at least one, possibly more), which is irritating. I can work around it with a photo editing program like ShowFoto, but I can’t say I’m happy. I’ve been eyeing a DSLR for a while now, and until a few weeks ago the Canon 350D was winning. I went down to Jessops the other day and handled both the 350D and the Nikon D50, and the D50 was so much nicer. Slightly chunkier, and my index finger didn’t hit the lens when trying to operate the shutter.
