Tue Oct 21 20:55:13 2008

So the website is now upgraded to CherryPy 3.1 . It was a bit of a bumpy ride since there appears to have been some changes in the database connection timeouts somewhere. I have now included DBUtils.PersistentDB as the connection manager, so it should keep the connection open.

I have been using more of PostgreSQL and I am now getting familiar with PL/pgsql ! I have also been looking at VPN software and have found OpenVPN to be really straight forward to setup.

Hopefully now the site is more stable I will be able to write more frequently!

Fri Jul 18 10:35:50 2008

I'm back online now having setup an ADSL connection again at the flat. This time I have chosen to go with a different provider. So far the connection has been really good.

I have also been at my new job over a month now, and I'm enjoying it. It is a position which is developing still and I get exposed to lots of different areas.

Hopefully I will be able to blog more frequently now. I should also be able to resume work on v2 of this site. Since starting work over here, I have learnt more about databases and will be making more use of that as I develop this site.

Last weekend, my daughter was in a performance at the London Palladium. It was a really great evening, with lots of laughs and good music. We spent the day in London starting at the British Museum. I had not been there before and was amazed at the size of the place! The rosetta stone was fascinating. I found myself trying to work out the ancient Egyptian writing... We had lunch in Covent Garden and watched a street performer while eating paella, very enjoyable.

Wed Apr 23 13:10:10 2008

And so I'm back in the UK, joy ...

I am missing Friuli terribly and I feel I have left a part of myself there. Unfortunately this time there were too many things happening at the same time and I have had to come away. I am hoping that this will improve my relationship with my daughter. I have learnt though from this experience that I am really happy living in Italy and that it is not the holiday impression that I am in love with. I am hoping that it is not long before I will be able to live there.

I am looking for work now in the Norwich area, but I know I will not find anything as enjoyable and exciting as the job that I had started in Italy.

Fri Feb 8 20:29:15 2008

I've made some changes to the RSS feed generator and it seems to be behaving a little better now.

I have been reading more of the PostgreSQL docs today. It's growing on me, and I think I prefer it to MySQL overall. I don't think there is much to choose between them though.