I’ve been struck down with one, yet again. I must have been last in line when God was handing out white blood cells to everyone. Every year, I get one at around Standard Grade exam time (although I believe that technically, it’s called Hay Fever, but I’d never joined the dots until recently) and another one as soon as Autumn starts again. I’m absolutely shattered and I have work tomorrow, so I’m going to go to bed after I’ve written this lot out.

Yesterday makes up for the inactivity though. I managed to repair the hard drive that died on me a few weeks ago — the one with all the pictures I’d taken since getting my first digital camera. Thankfully, it was just the caddy that broke, so I removed the drive from the enclosure and swapped it into a new one. All my pictures have now been backed up onto a new 1TB drive, and I’ll probably get another one soon enough to act as the backup’s backup.

I also managed to write a little Bash script to automate putting watermarks on my images. I’ve pretty heavily based it on someone elses script that I cannot find right now, but if anyone wants to try it for themselves, just get in touch. I love Linux and how it makes this kind of thing so easy to do!

Still waiting to hear back from some people about getting pit passes for some gigs coming up; might jar the relevant people again to see if things kick start.

I’ve also re-edited one of my favourite images from the 2008 MTB World Cup. I think it sums up what 4X is all about, and why it’s my absolute favourite discipline to watch. Congrat’s to Steve Peat too, for at long last becoming World Champion — for those not in the know he’s probably the most down-to-earth guys on the circuit, and has been so close to it before he’ll have smelled the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (jersey).

And that’s about it for today. Off to bed now to carry on coughing, trying to breath and generally not get any sleep. The joys…