Unable to wring any greater sentience from my enfeebled brain, I resort once again to bloggery for a bit.

As many will already know, I have finally settled on a date for my LAN day, after many months of procrastinating. It will be this Saturday, the 9th of September. Organizational details can be found here. I look forward to filling my house with geeks and loose cabling, once again.

Speaking of loose cables… Double is still creeping forward, very slowly. For reasons which I will go into in a sec, I have made nearly zero progress on it in the past fortnight. The short story is: Building a web/mail/stuff server is easy. Migrating anything to or from one is bloody hard. At least there is now a Gallery application (BINS). Although it is still only ~50% functional. Gotta work some glitches out of that directory permission stuff, and make things generally slightly prettier.

E and I have been very very sick for the last little while. Last week it was me, bronchitis and a chest infection courteously donated by my brother, who got hauled off to the Alfred at one point with his illness. This week it was E, and she too had to make a visit, this time to Casey in the wee small hours. Be ye warned: if you haven’t had this latest virus, it’s a monster.

I have also had the …good?… fortune to recently learn the importance of knowing one’s IMEI number. This is a longish number that comes with any new phone and uniquely identifies it. If you have an Australian mobile phone, you can get your IMEI number by dialing *#06# on it. You can then write it down. If you haven’t written it down, and you can’t find it on the packaging or anywhere else, you will find that you can’t report it stolen!

Finally, I have a minor quandary at the moment about Mice. My new house seems to have a slight infestation of them, judging by the rate at which I am losing instant noodles and cake mix (only those two things, no rice, flour, pasta, etc.). I have bought a pair of non-lethal mouse-traps (which clearly do not exist: I can’t find ’em in Google). They are little elbow-shaped plastic boxes with a simple trapdoor mechanism at one end: the mouse enters the tube through the trapdoor and climbs the raised bit to get at the bait, tipping the assembly onto its other side, and closing the trap-door. this would all make much greater sense if I had thought to include a picture. Maybe I will.
All of that aside, the issue is simply this: If I trap mice in a non-lethal manner, having caught them, what do I do with them? So far, all my solutions to this problem have involved one kind or another of lethality for the mouse, none of these satisfactorily humane. My best idea so far is to buy a mouse cage, keep it stocked with grain and water, and periodically release said mice into the Clayton tip, wherein I expect they will find ample food and bother no-one.