Saturday, I moved the last of my stuff off of my old co-host so it can be shut down as scheduled next Saturday. Probably disrupted service to my friends/family all day due to the high TTL on the DNS zone (I didn’t think ahead) etc. Seems to have moved across fairly smoothly.

Also on Saturday, P’Pa (P’Fai’s wife)’s gran (!) died (aged well over 90, very frail anyway). Thai custom is to have a week long (sometimes 3-4 days, sometimes 9-10 days) mourning period where the family of the deceased entertains everyone in the area, and anyone from anywhere that has ever known the deceased, or their family. It’s quite shocking how big it is really, especially in comparison to our relatively low-scale western funeral traditions (friends and family, one day at the church and a gathering, done and dusted). Anyway, as a close friend of P’Fai’s (and Mee is a good friend of P’Pa), we are both expected to go round a couple of times a day to show respect and help out etc. No problem, just less time available for watching GUADEC streams etc :)

Sunday morning, finished off the Infrastructure wiki pages that I’d marked out several weeks previously. Not as much detail as I’d hoped, but at least it’s out there and can be worked on by anyone.

Yesterday (Monday), I got fed up of showering with the dirty(ish) water coming from the water filter. We built the water filter six months ago, and when the pond we were drawing water from nearly dried up a few weeks ago, it sucked all the crap at the bottom up into the filter and saturated it. We should really have cleaned it every 3-4 months anyway, and we’d used it for 6 by now. Anyway, meanwhile we’ve had this well dug and it’s now full of clean water. I’d finished digging the pipe in between the new tap at the front of the house and the well, so we shifted the water pump from the pond to the well. Unfortunately, the cheap PVC glue didn’t hold, and air and water are leaking in and out in several places. We managed to fill the water container that receives the filtered water before it got to the stage where the pump didn’t have enough suction to draw water. I spent most of the day re-gluing the joints with better glue, but it still isn’t right and it got dark. I’ll have to ask P’Bot to come and look at it, as he’s better at that kind of thing and can probably fix it in minutes.

Yesterday evening, while watching the first half of Owen’s Cairo talk (which is still downloading!), I installed some subversion RPMs on container.gnome.org, and started experimenting with cvs2svn on a cross-section of small (1Mb), medium (~25Mb) and large (~250Mb) GNOME CVS repositories to see how long it would take to convert them. Interesting stuff, and it’s throwing up some interesting problems. When I’ve covered things a bit more, I’ll add my findings to the SourceCodeManagement wiki page, and make the output of the cvs2svn processes on container available for each module on-line so people can see how well (or not) their CVS history translated to subversion :) It’s finding lots of duplicate tags/branches etc.

I’ve done loads of other stuff besides, but I can’t recall much of it, so it can’t have been that noteworthy.