Daire breakfasted (slow dressing and coming for food - eyes adhered to telly).

Once get up have breakfast. We've loads of leftover lovely food to munch on after dinner party. Fionn has done clearing work in garden. Picked up arch wind blew over with loganberries and sweetpeas and camellia attached. Chopped stuff. Also is clearing out small room we're going to paint, tidying kids toys and also clearing out the attic a bit. (typing this in a alittle voice is shouting inside my head "NESTING INSTINCT" but I'm ignoring it) I at least am of some use and paint the little room. Start with the awkward bits. Goes slowly. Kids rough and tumbling with big sofa double fold matress on top of our bed. Food 16:30. YUM. Chicken korma and rice and tiramisu after. Painting better after that. Don't quite have enough in two half pots to finish. Fionn and Kate take buggy and go to shop to get newspaper. It rains while they're gone and I'm still painting. They arrive back happy and bouncy though.

I reheat stuff for my tea and snack on delicasies in fridge. Heat tomato soup and bread & butter for Daire. Kiwi for Kate, she spoons out contents herself. Then kiwi and orange for Daire. Kate falls asleep on couch on me. Fionn gets her bed stuff and we put it on her and carry her up to her bed. - well - up to her mattress beside Fionn's bed with sheep skin over her Daire up with me - pyjamas, teeth, book he reads himself in bed. Freeciv ! Augh. Play and fix script.

Then Fionn up, puter off, I bring up clothes and hang out to dry, grab food for my tummy. While munching hear Kate crying. I go up and she's beside Fionn on her mattress but cross and crying. Can't settle her in place. I bundle her up in blanket. She says her nose is sore (she's getting over cold she's had last two days). We get her cream. Downstairs we go. I hold Kate in bundle and finish my food off with tiramisu (last of) and wine. Kate watches people on tv. Then up we go. Light on lying down under bed. Kate is happy doesn't sleep but makes reasonably happy noises. I read a bit ... dropping off ... dropping ... Turn out light sleep. ..... Kate cries a bit - light on. Later on again 3:30 Kate cries a bit more ... settles down again. urg.

We plan to get out of house. Get diy/stuff Woodies/Atlantic/Somewhere. Do diy and house/garden tidying. Escape check mirror in Dun Laoghaire and pump tyres, fix trailer plastic covers. BUT tidying and reading newspaper and other activities impinge.

We leave for Dun Laoghaire 16:00. Kate & Daire & I get parking ticket as the security van is there. Then in car and Fionn lies across seats for a rest. Gates of coal harbour are shut. Lift Daire onto wall beside gate and he jumps down. Then pass him tyre and bag of tools/materials. Then lift Kate up onto wall. Then up myself and down other side and lift Kate. Kate has red wellies on. She likes stomping in puddles. Two other lads on a yacht taking down it's mast. We go to boat, spill out water and pump up wheels. Can't with kids and time do much about trailer pads. It showers twice. Take cover under nearby currach. I join kids last shower until it's gone. Sitting on mast in middle. Daire in front. Kate behind. Looks like fun. We go out by slip-way. Daire first out onto rocks then down and under railing. Kate the same. I help her but she goes under railing and climbs up herself. Then me I go around railing with gear.

Back to car and Fionn. We pile in and drive over to windsurf area. Couple of windsurfers packing up. Kids and I head for pier thing. Water at perfect height for it. Pause on beach attaching hooks to rod. I help Daire cast a few times, then he does it himself and is soon very good. Kate sticks close hanging on to us. She gets a couple of gos. Then the line is sticking when cast out. A loop is unravelled and catching line. We do a cast and pull it until we see all tangle. It's not twisted too badly but trying to untangle very difficult. Kate doesn't like this messing and heads back to car. Daire minds her. Break line and tie it just one knot instead of tangle. Daire back. But then the knot is catching the line. I leg it back to car and get bag for penknife. Casting better again then.

=head1 NAME

What is wrong with this perl?

  use strict;
  use Data::Dumper;

  my (%discountTypesNNN);
  $discountTypesNNN{357135710}{137}{"09"} = "flat";
  my $ref = \%discountTypesNNN;
  print "Dumper \$ref: " . Dumper($ref);
  print "Dumper \%{\$ref}: " . Dumper(%{$ref});

=head1 OUTPUT

  Dumper $ref: $VAR1 = {
          '357135710' => {
                           '137' => {
                                      '09' => 'flat'
                                    }
                         }
        };

  Dumper %{$ref}: $VAR1 = '357135710';
  $VAR2 = {
          '137' => {
                     '09' => 'flat'
                   }
        };

=head1 COMMENT

  It appears that accessing the hash through the reference
  e.g. $ref->{357135710}->{137}->{"09"}; is okay

  But dereferencing and copying the hash is either 

   j. done incorrectly
      (something is wrong with the syntax here?)
      (perldoc perlref says:

        It isn't possible to create a true reference to an IO handle (file-
           handle or dirhandle) using the backslash operator.  The most you
           can get is a reference to a typeglob, which is actually a complete
           symbol table entry.  But see the explanation of the *foo{THING}
           syntax below.  However, you can still use type globs and globrefs
           as though they were IO handles. )
         
      on "the beloved" *foo{THING} syntax 

      (again from perldoc perlref:

        As a special case, "\(@foo)" returns a list of references to the
           contents of @foo, not a reference to @foo itself.  Likewise for
           %foo, except that the key references are to copies (since the keys
           are just strings rather than full-fledged scalars). )

       but *foo{THING} :

        o. doesn't work, is old and deprecated ? in practice but not in docs?

        and

        p. waider doesn't belove *foo{THING}

   or

   k. is correct but bug in perl

 I'm inclined to believe j. but can't find out how to properly 
 dereference deep hashes or complex structures?


 Further interesting behaviour can be seen with different dereferencing.
 E.g. returning reference from hash like this in subroutine and then
 dereferencing =>

  a blank hash is introduced into the hash???

  Dumper $ref: $VAR1 = {
          '357135710' => {
                           '137' => {
                                      '09' => 'flat'
                                    },
                           'HASH(0x810283c)' => {}
                         }
        };

=cut

Reporting bugs I mention there could have been more info in a bug. And the idea grows till I collect thoughts on what I would like to see in this bug and bugs in general.

I go get bike. Unlock, Raise saddle. cycle cycle have to stop at roundabout, get into flow beside car not turning off check release - nothing on it, email ebay stuff breakfast I eat just right I brought in months ago (at least think it mone) and sit down then coffee ahhhh

up dress breakfast D dress self, bring Kate's clothes in car at creche Kate's teacher comments how good she was yesterday when they went outside she wasn't upset and went in to help Claire. At roundabout small hesitant micra. Too close to left so I can't go inside. So around outside. Momentum is good. If stop have to wait much longer.

I'm still fixing and testing smsengine filtering in morning. Then full regression testing and find HUGE batch messages have 3 issues:

• on my machine betty libs fail 4096 bytes XML::Parser and get out of memory error from perl once!
• they have timeout errors, increasing poe and https/xmlrpc timeouts helps a bit
• they log way too much junk - fix that
• calling system with 20000 numbers in xml => over half meg bytes on "command line" doesn't work actually! in sutomated test scripts

Fionn's tired. Hullo we say. Kids go get dressed in pyjamas. I help Kate and brush teeth and then read her story - well she chooses a radisson pipi longstocking page that you stick things to. We stick things and "read" it. Then Kate unsettled. Stephen Baxter's Ring for me. Tom Holt's elf book Fionn is reading and then Ian Banks Song of Stone for Kate. After tossing a bit she drops off sound asleep. I go down. Daire & Fionn are watching Duncan thingy house building program on TV. I get Carrot soup Fionn has made yum. With homemade bread too. Daire heads up to bed.

TV. Leave stuff in kitchen mostly in a mess. I shower. Bed. Wrecked tired. Kate comes in. I don't wake. But get woken. We're all 3 in bed. I head to Kate's bed Fionn asks me.

Initially Kate into teeny tot area me minding. I watch Daire see hime on climbing wall. Climbing up little bit ... then swinging off. I want to see hime go high high ... Fionn gets Kate a red top ... we're not sure what she is allowed to do. In little place while Fionn gets us coffee and breakfast rool and chocolate. We sit on couch relax a bit eat/drink. Then Fionn into big place with Kate. I read newspaper. Later kate through net "HEllo Daddy". I come in and she shows me slide. In big area ball guns being fired (ow!) Kate doesn't get hit even once. She shows me slide and tunnel and climbs high up (with ehm. encouragment) Follow her on ground but them lose track! Run around a bit. Fionn spots her finally. She comes down. More ball play. More other play. Finally out and spend while in tot place. I'm waiting for Fionn. We have fun piling things up and riding on things and lifting/carrying/positioning. Then Fionn finds us and says she was looking for us! Out we go and drive home via Firhouse. Pas real close to Scholarstown park actually Colm & Linda 5 nearish BBQ in Keith's place.

Cork match. Daire watching. Oghhh seems rough both sides really want to play. phone home, talk mum mostly me cross Daire castle D & Kate arguing we make up

I go Windsurf. Tide will be out, strong SW winds. Wind will be offshore in Dun Laoghaire but I'm late - it's 17:30 when I get all gear on car and Cork had won the hurling WOHHOOO! :) Assumpta comes out and congrats me. And text Bill too. Catch forecast on way down. Eek. Force 7 21kts gusting 9 at Dublin airport. Dun Laoghaire car park there's very gentle wind. With occasional heavy gust. So rigging is less risky. Tide surprisingly high for low water. Nice though can sail a bit in shallow water. Out on water wind goes from real strong gust to nothing. I stay close. Up to neck, head out of depth few times. Water start sometimes but uphaul others. In water no wind very hard to hold sail ready for next gust. Great fun. No other surfers out. Flat water but no carve gybe. Get mostly round twice. Wind drops off completely. I'm in and packed up and it's dark 20:00. German student in Ireland just arrives staying Blackrock surf wetsuit water temp chat.

Home and kids in pyjamas up our room. Daire is puss in boots :) He has bike helmet on, a belt, cork flag in belt and Fionn's suede boots. Brilliant! I read Kate the hungry caterpillar as bedtime story. Then she's hyper a little not wanting to sleep. I read some of Baxter's Ring to her (Fionn got it for me from Library). That doesn't settle her but Tell her to serttle/sleep a few times and she drops off. Read a bit more.

Then downstairs. Night to Daire. Fionn brings Daire down and we tell him. Sort out clothes that are drying (went mad 3 washes yesterday).

Fionn plays piano. I get windsurf gear in from car. Really howling gale now. Rain too. Turn on bright back garden spotlight. Really pretty. I play piano then stupid veg tv long time till bed late.

Fionn & I go to Atlantic Homecare buy pots (for potted herb+strawberry presents for people) and bird house. (robin/sparrow/tit sizes, cute, slate roof) Traffic is unbelievably bad. Races in Leopardstown yes but ... We avoid it all. To Stillorgan, best way make illegal right turn, traffic timing suits us grand. But this time coming into Stillorgan we get stuck in traffic. Realise petrol is all gone needle in red and our warning light hasn't worked for a while now. Fionn buys bananas and potatoes and milk. Kate & I get petrol and newspaper and popcorn for starving baby girl. Then onto nimble fingers for main purpose of expedition. Present for Adam. Lego pullback mechano things. Get two! I say. We get two. Honk spiderman bike horn too.

Home. Food. Put rosemary (big from our big pot) and thyme and strawberry I put in pots a month ago into nice blue pot. Daire back. Kids in playing. Daire's castle down from attic. Hrungg. Kate gets in fights. She ends up (some periods all happy play) but falls against table probably in argument over something and her mouth is cut. Fionn brings her up for nice comforting bath ... but there's no hot water :( Kate actually likes bath anyway. When Kate comes out I wrap her in towells and boot windows :-E and put on jump ahead toddlers. She LOVES it. Clearing picture with mouse then lovely animal singing a song. Daire & gang hear music and come up after 7 songs. I have shower ... hear Daire & other kids being nice to Kate and showing her other things.

I go get Ruth babysitter bit after 7. Bring pot and wine. Pot heavy. Kate cries when we go. They're watching ??? and Bullwinkle tv. Fionn navigates directions perfect. Keith meets us. Fiona & Colm & Linda are busy busy cooking. Brrr weather broken it's windy and a bit chilly. Loads of faces and EEK people read web site! Scary. Hello Dave Murells & Brian McGinty! :-P''' Fionn is driving. Yum food. Salads and BBQ. Lots of wine for me. White then rose both sweet. Then red shiraz & cabernet sauvignon's. Yum yum. We get home 1:30.

Working on adding config options and loading them up and adding tests from them as qell as queuing stuff. Half day for me as Fionn is doing a course and I'm minding Kate and Daire.

Flurry of emails to Mike, also Stella, Fionnuala and Bill. Going sailing, books, bikes, music. Bill:

Would like to check the tuning of your piano if that's alright : ) Me and Steve have designs on recording with it if it's ok with you guys???

We've been playing the piano. Fionn & I and kids too. I've discovered guitar chords I have I can convert and play along. Not sure of my rhythm yet on piano ... mostly play just one hand. Can pick out tune but singing and chords sound better. Major chords all easy. 1st 3rd 5th notes play one hand. C F G major all natural notes A D E major 3rd is sharp, Am Dm Em (m=minor) all natural notes. Can cover LOADS of songs with that selection. Then also for weird chords e.g. E7 can play E minor plus C# (I think) Play Don MacLean's Walking in Memphis Fionn upstairs, next day she says it sounded good :) She should know not to encourage me maybe!!! :)

Run away 2 o'clock after. Car not blocked in. Drive to get Kate. Traffic ok actually. Saw earlier it was horrendous. Then collect Daire & .... David went home sick earlier. Oh.

At home Daire is very disappointed wine (my crippled older install of wine!) can't run pingu or jump ahead toddlers :( Earlier he was disappointed Liam's Kellogs game didn't run. anyway ... we do some violin practice after feeding ourselves. We doss and watch tv, play around.

I have a moment of revelation. (in evening/later) I fire in an ancient msdos boot disk and can see it boots up my restored C: drive as C:. Other drives more strange. Then I play with autoexec.bat remember "attrib -a -r -h" command get config.sys autoexec from C: doesn't boot windows then get more msdos.sys, some .dos files, detroit.bat THen! Windows 98 splash screen (with my graffiti!!) :-O First time in years that has been seen on our ancient pc at home. Splash screen goes away - autoexec lines scroll. Splash screen back. away. back. Funny messages rebuilding driver dbase,m ... Then in and poke around drives it can see (cdrom is FINE in windows (Phew!) it wasn't from the floppy boot before). Oh my backup of Drive I remember it was copied between partitions when I could mount both using floppy so long filenames all got ~%ified. SO things broken because of that (desktop, start menu, more). I fix some stuff ... run jump ahead toddlers (after change display setting to 256 cols!) YAY! Run quake, grand-theft-auto. Cool. Working.

Work on fault queue logging & processing. Also tidy up docs. prepare release notes, install and upgrade instructions. Fully specify filtering.

Surprised all perl gurus here and elsewhere don't immediately know of a perl generic queue module with pluggable backend that can be persistant on the file system or e.g. in mysql. Thread::Queue seems to be the standard threaded (or also not threaded) Queue. POE has Queuing stuff. There's a Basic::Queue. There is also Queue::Dir and together with Storable that would be good. Surprised slightly though there isn't something which combines them already .... though code will be quite simple.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#use Time::HiRes qw(time);

use Queue::Dir;
use Storable;
use Storable qw(store_fd fd_retrieve);

my $rootdir = "/tmp/smsoutQ";
mkdir $rootdir if (!-d $rootdir);
die "can't create queue directory $rootdir" if (!-d $rootdir);

my $q = new Queue::Dir  
    id => "smsoutQ",
    paths => [ $rootdir ],
    promiscuous => 1,
    #sort => 'sortsub',
    #filter => sub { ... },
    lockdir => 'lock',
    #lockmax => 300, # default 300 sec anyway
    ;

die "fail to create Q" if (!defined $q);

#????The 'paths' parameter ("ARRAY(0x804c8d4)") to Queue::Dir::new did not pass the 'directory' callback

my %oid = ( 'to' => "353867777777", 
	    'text' => "hello foo",
	    'time' => 0,
	    'id' => 0 );

my $id = 0;

$oid{time} = time();
$oid{id} = $id++;

print Dumper(%oid);

my ($fh, $qid) = $q->store();
die "fail to write to Q" if (!defined($qid) || !defined($fh));
#(ref $fh eq 'IO::File', "Proper fh");
#print $fh "Hello World $id\n";
store_fd \%oid, $fh;

print "id $id, qid $qid, name:" . $q->name($qid) . "\n";
$fh->close;
$q->unlock;

$qid = $fh = $q = undef; # delete things

my $q = new Queue::Dir id => 'smsoutQ', paths => [ "/tmp/smsoutQ" ], lockdir => 'lock';
die "fail to open Q" if (!defined $q);

my $text;

use Data::Dumper;

my $count=0;
$qid = $q->next();
while (defined($qid)) {
    $fh = $q->visit;
    #$text = $fh->getline;
    my $ref;
    $ref = fd_retrieve $fh;
    print Dumper($ref);

    #print "qid $qid, name:" . $q->name($qid) . ", text: $text\n";
    print "qid $qid, name:" . $q->name($qid) . ", text: ".$ref->{text}."\n";

    if ($count%4==3) { # if we handle q entry
        # dispose of qid entry in q file
	my $status = $q->done($qid);
	print "item rm from queue $status\n";
    }

    $q->unlock;
    $qid = $q->next();
    $count++;
}

# dispose of qid entry in q file
#my $status = $q->done($qid);

#$q->unlock;

Fionn is out in work gang Chinese restaurant in Stillorgan.

Met Mike clambering onto a motorbike going to his driving test this morning. Shhh. Might be a seekret. Not sure. Keys in glove compartment. Driver door unlocked. Other doors locked. Car beside Claire's (Kate knows where :) ) furthest down alley closest to creche. (found bike unlocked so phoned Fionn)
Met Orla and Cian too just going into creche.

Congratulations on winning eBay Item Number 6923110284. eek. So I sign up to paypal and pay.

Daire likes school. His senior infants teacher gave him more homework than he's getting this year!!! :) This year teacher has expressly stated stop homework after half hour even if not done in letter home. His gang in our estate all cycle their bikes quite often and they've got some sort of seekret agent group with seekret stuff.

failed sms retry & queuing. Emails to people. I specify out feature required, break it down and also start work on it. One bug found if o2 sms servers fail there is a die way down in XMLRPC::Lite I change handler to log error, not die. Higher up in daemon queuing is handled (and will be handled more) and higher level logging of fault also done.

    use XMLRPC::Lite on_fault => 
	sub {
	    my($soap, $res) = @_; 
	    # we log error, 
            #later we notice nothing returned and handle fault logging further
	    #print STDERR "xmlrpcliteon_fault " . Data::Dumper->Dumper($res) . "\n";
	    #print STDERR Data::Dumper->Dumper($soap) . "\n";
	    print STDERR ref $res ? "result fault detail:" . $res->faultdetail 
		: "soap transport status:" . $soap->transport->status, "\n"
	    };
    

earlier useful thing, how to control XMLRPC::Lite (or SOAP::Lite) debug at runtime

    my $xmlrpctrace;
    if ($self->{debug}) {
	#$xmlrpctrace = "transport dispatch result parameters headers objects method fault freeform trace debug";
	SOAP::Trace->import(trace => 'debug');
    }

This is a new feature request though there is manual support for fault sms in smsengine now. The best place to do it is in smsengine. It will require development and test. If we add feature we should specify exact requirements on the "vartiable length retries". What range? Range is configurable?

There is limited support in smsengine for fault scenario now. Smsengine keeps faults for manual processing here: /usr/local/smsengine/logs/smsqueue_fault The smsqueue_fault file is not tested for scenario where o2 service is unavailable SO I cannot be sure the logging of that particular fault is successful. Add logs to bugs so we can reproduce the scenario. This smsqueue_fault must be taken and using test/o2xmlrpcout.pl sms may be sent from within script or by hand. Syntax errors in messages and invalid mobile number errors also appear in smsqueue_fault file. These may be disregarded after manual review. This smsqueue_fault file is not currently protected by locking so user ideally will shutdown smsengine, mv smsqueue_fault for their processing then restart smsengine.

If we do feature it means need to make the fault queue multi-process access safe. And within o2xmlrpcout.daemon OR using another e.g. o2xmlrpcfaultretry.daemon monitor fault q and implement the retries.

ALSO specify feature to restrict services and filter incoming sms depending on shortcode used and keywords.

in work, look at bugs, make some diary, stella in, kathryn what did on fri to stella coffee

Boat's still there. Moved a bit over. We rig her up fast enough there is a bit of wind to sail with. Kids in boat as we roll her down slip. As water approaches Kate looking at it (and just Daire with her in boat) gives a trepidatory squeak but we reassure her. She's a bit surprised at us all trundling down with this then then clambering into it. Sits quietly beside mast opposite Daire wathing everything. Was wondering what crazy Daddy & Mummy were up to for a bit and was very quiet. Then was happy out. I make sure centerboard is down first thing. Sails up. Off we go - kindof with wind (but no wind) through moored boats. We head out into harbour. Bit more wind. Fionn one side, me other, kids front. Tacking out. Low wind but little nice breeze outer harbour.

Loads of little and bigger boats sailing and motor. Boats heading same direction we give way a bit. We see rowing race start. Nearish sandycove Dalkey we're all hungry. Think about landing but we're sailing calmly enough so Fionn doles out sandwiches and drink. Cheese and chicken for kids, with mayo for Kate. Salad & cheese & mayo or chutney for Fionn & I. After lunch & drink Kate needs to wee! eek! Into bailer, very neatly assisted by Fionn. Then tack out and along by coast and find ourselves beside a race, lots of sails going our direction.

We goto Dalky island, see seals, park boat in past other boats tied up. Out we get. Meet Alex. I go back a few times - for water, for Daire's shoes. When I get up to Fionn & Kate Kate is crying lots having stood on nettle. I'm in bare feet and have seen them and have been watching out like a hawk for my own feet. I take Kate and she's still crying quite upset. We quickly wander up hill. No dock leaves? Although some I see quite small close. I gather some likely specimens and rub in making juicy on bottom of Kate's foot and that does quieten her. I'm dying for loo so wander ... wander more and sneak down out of sight. All time very careful of nettles and my bare feet. Rabbit holes by cliff and on paths round the place. Get back different direction last bit hopping from rock to rock. Last one tshirt off to get nettle out of foot way. We go higher up martello tower, Daire in. Me after. Then round the tower. Fionn further up but really tricky for my feet. Take photos. Daire gets nettled ankles/side of legs (no socks) and panic/cross runs across long grass. I juicy leaf him actually find small dock leaf plant too. We head back to boat. Lots of people up/down the paths. I prep boat - not much to do. Then all in and squeeze out round boats by grabbing rocks & seaweed. Then row clear. Then up sails BUT .... augh! Disaster. main halyard has travelled all way to top of mast. We drift. Try tie oarlock top oar and hook it off but actually it's jammed tight, Someone motors over to offer hand tows us over to yacht and boathook frees halyard. Sails up but v little wind. They tell us they'll be going back soon so if tow they'll help. Thanks. :) I row with sails up. We go close to rocks and yes. With just wind there we're not moving. Water roiling and sputtering tidal streams/wind/waves meeting? Another nice motorboat person (all seni-rigid inflatables) comes up and "tow?" so we say yep. throw him bowline ... he's not sure about making it fast ... but does so after away from rocks. Then Fionn steers, Kate beside her. I take centreboard up first, Down after while tired blocking water sloshing in. Daire up front. I hold boom out of my & Fionn's way. Amazing ... with engine noise motion Kate drops off asleep. Towing with towrope one turn around mast was better kept bow down. Our bow really lifting up. Fionn in back Kate asleep and steering can't move. After while we feel wind, set sails, they almost feel like sailing. Alright though ... guy motors slowly brings us ALLL the way to marina! In harbour we gybe still being towed.

Fionn sails us in, round corner I take tiller. We're back in 19:00 Drift in beautifully. Guy with boat catches us. I step out. Move over. other person brings us trailer. People are being so nice! :) Hey! :( trailer cushions (back ones) gone :( wtf??? feckers. Anyway. Daire out. Carry over. Bring boat alongside ... Fionn hands me Kate. Then out herself. Daire holds bowline. Fionn brings Kate up. Sails down and boat onto trailer with Daire's help my buoyancy aid cushioning where cushions gone and sharp nails sticking up. Daire & I haul boat most of way up slip. A young guy grabs front of our boat and helps me pull her over to our trailer. People again all day are being so nice. Kate is sprawled out on back asleep on boat beside ours. Lucky again car we had forgotten to get parking ticket. It's lonely in car park. No clamp no ticket. Fionn brings car over. Dismantle, tidy up boat. Out water. Cover on. Fionn puts Kate in car, she wakes & cries briefly.

back late we grab Golden Elephant Thai Chinese. Fionn stays in car. After ordering Kate needs loo so we leave Daire and go few doors down to pub. Lovely loo there ... mens thing being used, handicap one free. Beef in black bean sauce, Chicken cashew nut, special curry, kung po duck, two fried rice one boiled for 30 euros. 5 mins wow! Bring home and eat with beer/apple juice/water Eating 20:30. After dinner Daire & Kate go upstairs and ready for bed themselves.

Me very foggy 1am bed. Daire crying 1:20 ? Dunno why leave door open bit more. Then 2ish Kate crying. Bed wet. So lift her on toilet and dry her. Change top but she doesn't want pants or nappy. Me cross I leave her into Fionn who minds her. I goto spare room, shift bedclothes & stuff off bed.

imagining things then sleep! ohhh sweet!

Kate & I head to butcher's. We get bread & milk & newspaper as well. Home Daire wants lolly, get it from party bag in my coat from Aedin's Leixlip road party last weekend. Fionn gives Daire trump cards. We play & I lose very fast every round. Friends in paddy & Conor. Problems reading some of the attributes for some kids. I hear Daire banning the use of the "Score" and total lines! :) Lolly lost & I'm cranky over it.

I cook bbq. 3 burgers, 3 chicken, 2 steaks. Cook cook cook. Prep potatoes and carrots and brocolli too. going to do salad but just no time. Serve up. Daire eats all meat. Bit of potato when more burger is offered! Kate likes chicken, not burger today. Eats loads of carrots. Sees me chopping up Daire's potato and goes nuts about her's. Didn't quite firure out what she as asking straight away. Chomp chomp. Nice. ahhhh.

I run collect Daire & David. We head home. Christopher is in so David goes in home. We cook pasta and feed our faces. Daire changes clothes. Head into work. No machine for Daire. Stella's is locked. Root password not easy to guess. Don't want to shut it down. Daire has my mobile. Plays games then my machine while I go out to topupclub people. I come back in Daire's switched desktop and is stuck :(

Fionn calls. I come home 17:30. Daire these evenings always out with friends on bikes. I meet him again cycling on road. Kids do just cycle out on road without looking too well. Everytime I meet them I'm telling David & Joey & Daire too & Liam and Alan to watch out for cars as they can't see and sometimes don't quite realise how wobbly they are. They flock together so that's a good survival method. Fionn's going out with work gang to Chinese in Stillorgan. I cook something, feed self and kids. Fionn heads and I round up kids and get them off to bed.

Computer is on from earlier and I fish up dev stuff. Make a cvs repository and put palm stuff into it. Then palm template project I test - it works, I add stuff. make MusicScreen project. Also then change keepEupE Makefile and ... AND ... it works!!!! Hey! (also I removed debug so .prc smaller.) So I had compiler bug before and I played with compiling in makefile and broke it and forgot I broke it and every time I went back since was puzzled. Now in cvs anyway so I can roll back in future. I have a feeling I did go over a limit (code jump limit?) at one stage so might have to figure something out if I hit that limit again in future. Satisfactory now. I have MusciScreen and keepEupE must publish on web make available. Then improve. And do other dtmf/music/game/map apps.

busy busy home 7? Fionn has waited for me. We all eat together. kids going to bed

Would you like to try Poolbeg? It's easy to find. Go for the toll-bridge. Turn right towards the chimneys before getting to the toll. Follow road left around (easy to get puzzled and go straight as roadmarkings are hard to see) Roll up the windows (as you go past the sewage treatment!) Then just follow the road all the way out ... there are a couple of places to launch from at each car park. The first car park has a bit of flat grass. Easy access to beach at a few places buit rocks to clamber over if you rig up in the wrong place! :)

oh! the uk hydrographic office have changed their website

Fri 27 Aug
LW	HW	LW	HW
02:21	09:09	14:52	21:22
1.2 m	3.6 m	1.2 m	3.8 m

Big heap quality email triggered by getting release note template we must use. It's a Microsoft Word doc! Augh. Requires test plan so ....

up 8. urgh I'm tired though bed b4 1200 last night and not too much reading. Kate was cross came in and unsettled cried a bit in night. She's still sound asleep. I leave her. Daire's watching TV. Tries to tell me story he had breakfast already and er .. put bowl in dishwasher. But _I_ know dishwasher is clean so HA :) He gets breakfast while I busy make lunches. Then he up dressed and glues self to tv again. Kate up a bit crusty cross but slowly get her dressed & breakfast. Tracy calls keys for next door. Alarm goes off. Phone Fionn.

In morning getting up & dressed & kids and making lunches (make sandwich for Fionn too) takes time and we end up rush for Daire's bus and miss it!!! But BIG bus sees us. Turns AROUND. Comes back, waits in traffic light Q and waves at us. Turns AROUND AGAIN! And picks up Daire. Very very nice of them. Fionn sends me a lovely mail thanks for sandwich.

In work after a few weeks of solid pounding successfully send message to o2 pretend server and get success reply back. Got password for the cert in morning. Worked out how to tell perl XMLRPC::Lite where stuff was. Send XML-RPC message to XML-SOAP server first doh! :) Yay oh yay! xml-rpc formatted correctly and all cert/keys for https correct.

To town by the Luas. 10/11ish Kate cross doesn't want to go in buggy, wants to push? But we want to get to northside.

Arnotts first. Runners for Daire. Try on 1 pair, then up to kids section, get tickets, get measured. He likes runners with lights! There is tv playing video. Daire watches it. Kate half watches but likes wandering round clothes shops. But she has a sticky lolly. I follow Kate round mostly look clothes a little. Fionn looks at clothes alot and selects for Daire for wedding & top Kate too. Then upstairs. Kitchen stuff. It's very hard looking at stuff with kids. Pots and pans and teapots. Fionn looking at flat plasma tv too. Coffee maker for Aedin. Kate needs the loo so I take her ... down the lift. Over, up escalator. Q in the mens ... lasts a while .. just 1 person in front of us but ... FINALLY ... we go and we're fast. Back up. Daire happy looking at tv. Kate a handful. Buy stuff and OUT.

Epicurean? No tapas place. Order food, juice, glass chilean chardonnay white me. Lots of food. I worry. But no need. Steak baguette and chips for me. I gradually pass most of chips across to Daire. Kate has plain pasta. Likes it. Fionn caesar salad. I help Daire lots with his pasta + redish sauce.

then across road ... and kids want to come to bike shop!!! So. Fionn heads off by self. We take buggy and some bags. Walk in crowds then to bike shop. Daire finds big rally bike helmet to try on & kate tries on normal bike helmet. No problem bringing lock back but says I should oil it more. I did oil it but yes, now I think axel grease would be good and other protection. Also get football pump attachment, puncture repair kit, mountainbike punp attachment.

On way back by fruit stalls. We get 2 punnets grapes and 10 plums. Nice lady gives D & K a plum each. Thay do look lovely. Red inside. We goto Chapters book shop. We're 10 mins early (time to meet Fionn 1[45?]:10). There a bit reading books and Kate needs the loo! We leave Daire minding bags and across to loo in epicurean food mall place. When we get back Fionn's just arrived. I run look 2nd hand books. No chocolat. Find Stephen Baxter book. No pullman new or old. Back btween new & old book look. Buy books. Back to southside & home luas.

Brian's stag on night. Fionn going to Miki & Tara's BBQ. Fionn got Rita to babysit. We clean house after coming back from town. Kate into pyjamas, Daire not. Bring down TV from upstairs. Rita comes and we're both still home. Fionn's watch is wayy slow. She doesn't want me to cycle in. When I head in Kate roars crying. Tired.

Cycle cycle into town nice. Park. Cross road. DOH! Not Turk's head, it was Stag's head! So I unlock bike again and walk it through slow pedestrians carrying awkward coat. Hurmm? Where is Stag's head. Round block and find it right. See Odessa cross road. All way back in dark back room of Stags head. Just about enough seating space for arrivals. People buy me guinness as part of rounds. 1.5 In Odessa another beer. Rocket salad, plum underneath with duck and cheese to start. Small but VERY tasty. Lamb main course. Adrian gets Rioja red. Someone gets round of more beers. Again leave lotrs of a beer behind. Up to gaiety. Listen to bands - talk. Jeremy/Jerry? Adrian. William. Maurice. Hugh & Eoghan. Paul & Paul. hummm. 2 more? oh well Brian. 1 more ? Cycle home, over m50 roadworks last bit, see a scramble in a night watchman car but nothing happens. Get home 5am. Getting bright. Drink. Grab stuff to eat. Up. Sleep.

Fionn oh it's 8:20! Up she gets. Kate has been in bed with us a bit. She has sleepy hair/eyes but very happy face. Fionn gets her dressed beautifully. I groggily dress & up. Daire in pyamas up & Kate employs him reading her books.

Down to make breakfasts (Fionn gets Kate weetabix) and I make lunches. Kate & Fionn off in car. Rice crispies for Daire. I finish Kate's and ready brek (found over fan last week thought we'd none) + porredge(sp?) for me. We're in good time 9:09 (left 9:17 both other mornings and were well in time). Bring out containers and pick gooseberries from the overloaded bush. Possibly half broken off by oil tank crunching over fence has left strong roots producing too much vigour and loads too much fruit now on one side left. Assumpta & Tracy pass by. Daire starts basketballing (and mad game in his head). Yoike! it's 9:27 by broken microwave!!! Leg it out of house, onto bike, up hill, along, right, left, narrow road, down hill. There we are. Wait a bit. See some of same people pass/going to shop. Bus arrives. Bye! I zoom-cycle crunching bike up the new but horrendously unconnected and dangerous cycle lane with sharp kerbs and gravel where there should be nice smooth ramps. Right across road - avoid today the juddery broken cycle path. Lights red nip onto path briefly to cross half as pedestrian. Then into traffic. Right turn down road along. Yay. Oh my lock is all internally rusted and real hard to key open/locked. AGAIN. Specialised bike BRILLIANT I love it. But specialized lock not good. This is the second one. Looks like rain gets in from all angles - along cable into lock - as well as in keyhole. So just use outdoors during day wears it out internally with rust. That'll teach me! Maybe not.

WilmaFredWilma.pl and perldoc perlsyn (stella was wondering how to break/continue/next/last/ out of loops but then it didn't matter but by then I'd realiased I didn't know this in perl and it had bothered me previously so I read the docs a bit and experimented a little bit) started yesterday evening. finish this morn. stella was making sure abusebot didn't have anything nasty about people b4 she went homeit didn't.

some kannel stuff, distracted a bit by greek as roaming rollout greece with no testing and have found greek terminal sw doen't print extended chars other countries (they're in greek!) Mapping was specified a long time ago. Stella & Kathryn are pointing them at docs. Sean is on xchat and likes it. communication! yayy!

get into & good fixes and LOTS of tests for mops internet auth fixed making sure session overlap php keywords doesn't blurk. silly unfosticate language/lib. fix up wikkle errors other places. lots tests also chat stella know how it works & how supposed to work. evening finish up cvs checkin stuff talk stella mops internet stuff nearly done how it works review. Email to ray about salary. Fionn wrote up for me and I phrased some things my way.

Home 19:30+ kids eating chicken drumsticks - fionn marinaded mmmm something sweet. Big greeting two kids. Mashed potatoes and beans also for dinner. Kate has more ... and later after I finish she has more again finishes beans. tup of tea.

Aedin calls, with tennis gear - I get kids upstairs & to bed. Fionn read 1st two chapters of Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World last night so we read next - Danny's Dad makes star kite, makes fire balloon. Danny mechanic. Then into our room. Kate has wombat "I think alot and I dig alot." story. Read lying on sheepskin on floor beside bed again. Space is quite tight. I goto loo and when back Kate is in big bed and asleep!

Puter is on and Daire said his freeciv game was always now loading and his character was dead but puters chars were still alive :(. So I start fixing script. Need to grep script for human dead player and move it out of way if so. I also realise less savedgame.gz gunzips before showing content! And can less savegame.gz |grep stuff | sed | etcc...

break for tup of tea downstairs Aedin & Fionn. Aedin has new pc. Can't get some things (Hugh's minidisk) also grab stuff from music cd to work. Also wedding photos onto floppy and to work. And Paul's pc had virii. "Stinger" disk she got made it better and other person got it back more.

Aedin home and good talk fionn baby & extension. Plans to move out - Emmet start November - 4/5 months -> March baby due. So maternity visits not in this house awkward. Birth in Holles St. NICE fast community midwives room not other OR at home hopefully. Coming towards end pregnancy will be work house cleaning & putting back in order. After new baby will still be stuff to do in house possibility builders still there.

• build side house first
• clear out house & attic - leave stuff in piles if we can out of way)
• then can rip off roof (all ceilings top floor) and on new roof
• then ? all roof finished so top floor can be put back
• existing house interior - upstairs bathroom (leaving main bedroom whose wall will go out new extension at end - no - wall could go at that stage)
• existing house interior - downstairs hall/living room changes
• kitchen - hurmnnnn door into new extension
• when build conservatory part onto kitchen? when knocking wall possible to detach existing counter/sink so still usable?
• plumbing drains and water for kitchen needs to be when kitchen floor dug up
• getting fitted kitchen will be near end
• when knock shed?
• fit out new extension - windows, doors, floors, ceilings, walls stairs, fitted furniture, bathroom, shower

Hungry! Grab YUM chicken & red pepper & mayo sandwich. CHOMP! GULP. Teeth - ohh I need shave! Bed. Fionn mfrngh. Facing my way eyes closed. Lamp low down I read a bit. Consider Phlebas.

s3 bbq I follow Kate round lots. Daire has huge fun. I talk a bit to people but not too much actually. Food good nice. Drink some wine. Bring toys all back to s3 before home.

In work mon-wed I think (check TODO) get sms api info from aplhyra. o2 sms. AAAAUGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Proprietary interface. Initially api docs which don't quite complete the picture. Next day more details on connection. XML-RPC or XML-SOAP. Not SMS forum's XML-SOAP thing. something else. java sample code. BUT regardless. meetings with Aimee and Paul Kelly and other with Ray. Looks easy to interface to. I send estimate to Kathryn. Aimee heads away holidays back to USA Wed/Thur. More docs thur/fri but getting mops internet bugs out of way. Very simple bugs. But takes a day to get stuff (test env) running on bakunin & look reproduce 1st one and fix. Next day as well as change also auth completely not working. Combination of things. Code changes to fix end up as simple one liners. (next week)

sunday - drive back from limerick afternoon grand traffic a while slow Monasterevin lashes rain for a bit getting petrol I try 3 pumps before working, call in & ask ??

goto see Shrek II with Fionn & Daire cinema

go shopping - suit stuff for me trousers talk talk fionn good in end shirt tie trousers

Bring kids meet Maureen & Ruth & Gordon in pub. Kate & Daire out across street play big footpath beside river. Skateboarders think Kate is cute.

Breakfasts - ready brek for Daire, weetabix for Kate. While I finish making school lunches. Then get tights and jumper and shoes on Kate. Daire goes down for David ... and is a while. I weed, Kate with me. She drops soother all way under car! Windy lovely sunny scudding clouds. Chilly though so Kate into car. Daire runs up. Finally David sauntering up 9:12 by car clock.

Vrmmmm traffic looks okay by IMI so I take a right and we're late enough so that it's okay down to St. Olaf's. Drop lads late. Then Kate & I on straight ... but meet traffic, U-turn - past Ace tyres. S3 no traffic. Kate heads in happily. I raise saddle and unlock bike. Bike against wind except for last downhill.

In work reverse engineering libdes mostly trying to see how data should be packed into blocks. I dunno why we need the same cipher as long as we can decode the different ciphers to the original text. (but of course we can't quite do that yet)

todays non-results :-7

 1. jamesc's head is fuddled now so time for home again
 2. jamesc's still no help to you :-7 (so far)
 3. libdes can kindof produce same cipher for moo and 12345678
  cmd line: des -E -h -k 3132333435363738 moo moominmama.moo
  cipher:  0000000 4128 a457 422f 80d7    (kindof! 2byteswap matches) 
  matching up with Ciphertext in hex (len)   : 28 41 57 a4 2f 42 d7 80 (8)
  needs code edits to not pack ramainder of block with random
 4. internally looking at libdes doing the DES can see similar bytes
    after it does IP
   after IP(L): 11100000000000001110000011100000                 (E000E0E0)
   after IP(R): 00000000111000001110000001100000                 (00E0E060)
libdes debug output (l for left, r for right) IP l=e0e000e0 r=60e0e000
so ... NOT the same, read one byte ass backwards and they are the same.
 from there the DES rounds data diverge BUT this is down to difference
   in how the initial packing is done so hopefully I can figure out the right packing tormorrer.

 there's nothing too useful below so you can stop here really but anyway ...
  (below has more detail on 1 2 3 and 4 above.)

messed lots but one thing was going somewhere ... (not exactly where want it to go!)
I was looking internally at libdes doing encoding of moo using key 12345678
(as I wanted to see how it puts bits into blocks)
1st block
this cmdline does it for libdes:
  des -E -h -k 3132333435363738 moo moominmama.moo
in libdes in des.c instead of packing remainder of moo with random must make a change:
    //buf[l++]=random()&0xff;
    for (i=7-rem; i>0; i--) buf[l++]=0;
it did this to last byte buf[l++]=rem;   HUH!   This be weird. 
  (was using initial block 6d 6f 6f 00 00 00 00 03)  (where 00 is random of course))
    (was that an error in libdes??)  I guess it's allowed to pack it up
    with random stuff but !?!?!?!!
    so changed that as well to:
		buf[l++]=0;

NOW
  des -E -h -k 3132333435363738 moo moominmama.moo
  hexdump moominmama.moo
    0000000 4128 a457 422f 80d7       
  (kindof! 2byteswap matches) 
  Ciphertext in hex (len)   : 28 41 57 a4 2f 42 d7 80 (8)

why 2 byte swapped gnnnggg?  But anyway all that's nearly irrelevant.


compare:

[jamesc@betty] ~/cbe/libdes-4.01/$ ./des -E -h -k 3132333435363738 moo moominmama.moo
des_cbc_encrypt in=6d6f6f0000000000 l=8 k=? iv=0000000000000000
des_encrypt l=00000000 r=006f6f6d
IP l=e0e000e0 r=60e0e000
key s=bfffe050
round 0 l=07000707 r=07070003 t=08052c40 u=bfffdf60
round 0 l=05f83443 r=07070003 t=703c4440 u=d3af4c2b
round 1 l=05f83443 r=8aaca837 t=d00fa714 u=b5d0786b
round 2 l=093535b9 r=8aaca837 t=48beaed3 u=c210a41b
round 3 l=093535b9 r=83ff143a t=4053370b u=f17d2da5
round 4 l=379c6a8c r=83ff143a t=3ccb95d3 u=830f0c26
round 5 l=379c6a8c r=c8a5191a t=87dd8a38 u=9b84fa90
round 6 l=16f488e3 r=c8a5191a t=f0da1d21 u=ec61898e
round 7 l=16f488e3 r=e3c465a5 t=39c7002a u=8a683877
round 8 l=816749cf r=e3c465a5 t=5ea08efe u=7788d535
round 9 l=816749cf r=753155d2 t=c426fc30 u=b94be91f
round 10 l=dfc76f03 r=753155d2 t=17db8d71 u=2951b512
round 11 l=dfc76f03 r=088a00ff t=b11ceedc u=9fab0fe3
round 12 l=0155eef9 r=088a00ff t=44e43003 u=1c9a641f
round 13 l=0155eef9 r=f88c5b11 t=d8d1eea3 u=6561aa99
round 14 l=7444c099 r=f88c5b11 t=f380f5f9 u=c8181771
round 15 l=7444c099 r=51d11333 t=97687c41 u=84d08cb1
[jamesc@betty] ~/cbe/libdes-4.01/$ hexdump moominmama.moo
0000000 4128 a457 422f 80d7                    
0000008

later I need yet to look at key packing too I think also.

compare with:

[jamesc@betty] ~/cbe/libdes-4.01/$ ../des/bin-crypto moo 12345678
(selected bits)

   input(left): 00000000000000000000000000000000                 (00000000)
  input(right): 00000000011011110110111101101101                 (006F6F6D)
des_encrypt l=00000000 r=006f6f6d
so left and right seem okay (but of course could be backwards or byte ordering different depending on implementations)

   after IP(L): 11100000000000001110000011100000                 (E000E0E0)
   after IP(R): 00000000111000001110000001100000                 (00E0E060)
IP l=e0e000e0 r=60e0e000
so ... NOT the same, read one byte ass backwards and they are the same.

----------- BEGIN ENCRYPT ROUND 0 ----------
.....
  round end(L): 00000000111000001110000001100000                 (00E0E060)
  round end(R): 10100100010011011011011111101011                 (A44DB7EB)
nope

BUT maybe getting bytes in right order depending on algorithim will fix.
ANd allow me to see how libdes packs it's bytes before DESing them.

> if you look in the README file it describes where it comes from.

yup well yes :) it was more of a rhetoric question
I've never read cracking des but I went over it very quickly yesterday.
Will have to sit down and read more.

> 
> <jamesc> it's kindof .... um .... I don't quite know whether to poke at
>          it with a long wobbly stick or something less conductive
> 
> what's wrong with it exactly?  the code is much more readable then the
> libdes code - it's not k&r c for one.
> 

It is lovely code and maybe alright we could use it.
But it is code used more just for illustration of how DES works and
I think because of this it has some disadvantages if it were
to be used in a product of ours.

(sorry about this ... it's just IMHO and I think about things way too much!
 I'll get back to trying to make it work just after this)

Oh the disadvantages: mainly ...

I think it would not be used normally in
 any application so would lack the comfort usually that
 comes with open source (where code is used & hence tested lots and
  any problems are hammered out).
This comfort is particularily important to have with encryption
 code as there could easily be something in there which 
 compromises the encryption. ?

As it's not used elsewhere as a real tool it lacks
 also the bit we're trying to do here. The interface
 to do the block chaining. Block chaining shouldn't
 be too hard to implement but again it would be much better
 to take code already working & tested.

Also it's an illustration of an ASIC and there is no optimisation 
 for software.

> <jamesc> isn't libdes licenced alright?  could we use that code?
> 
> libdes - which istr is what is used to implement des in openssl - has an
> advertising clause.  if we have to use it, we will.  but i'd rather not.
> i don't really trust alphyra to follow that license.  not to mention it
> will require us to say, "we added this code from an outside source to
> do do your security," which might lead to long, annoying conversations.
> also, this code is nice in that it drops right in with the rest of
> our code with no effort - i reformatted some lines to save paper but
> otherwise i left it alone.

Mnnnggg. Yerrs.
I definately (even with saying all above) you know how things work and
I think you've a good idea of what we can get working so 
I think it is a good plan to use this code.

Big testing comfort  ... it certainly will have been tested loads by people
who developed it and I'm sure loads of projects would have
experimented with it. 

We don't need particularily fast or secure code (it's just des 8 byte key!).


> 
> <jamesc> don't have it now but I diod poke at it before
> <jamesc> but I will pound away more tomorrow at EncryptDES
> 
> as i said in the README, i think the problem lies in how i feed the
> EncryptDES and DecryptDES routines.  if we have to modify the EncryptDES
> and DecryptDES routines then there isn't much point in using this
> library.

Yes it is in the "block chaining" as in packing of stuff before passing it to
EncryptDES. So I was hopefully going to poke at libdes. Try to understand how
it does it. See if it is different from your code and hopefully by the
end of that process we'd have the interface to EncryptDES that we need.

> 
> if you look in cryptography.com/search.c, you'll see a usage of
> DecryptDES.  i suspect i'm creating the key bit field incorrectly - or
> the in_b/out_b buffer.

I didn't see the search.c thing before!
From the past and poking yesterday as far as I can see there are several ways
of packing the blocks before doing des encrypt (there are as many as you can 
imagine but most would make the encrypt much less secure).  
Most involving tlas with b's and c's in them ecb cbc :)

> 
> i've tried several variations here:
> 
>     key_b = (bool *)malloc(56);
>     i = 0;
>     while (key[i]) {
>         for (b = 0; b < 7; b++) {
>             key_b[(i * 7) + b] = (key[i] & bits[b + 1])? 1: 0;
>         }
>         i++;
>     }

yep - I've wrapped em fwd & backwartds & mixed up so at least I was poking at the right thing.
I also tried running gdb and catching the openssl just before it got into the encrypt

 (need to gdb as root)
 run openssl-des moo 12345678
 break DES_ecb_encrypt

but I got lost in pointers & memory debugging without code and variables :-7
AND ... the cipher came out differently too!!! gah!
could try again but will leave off that for now

....

Anyway.

Will get back to hacking it try understand packing of the block now.
Don't worry about my reservations as I do have wayy to much mad debating 
 going on in my head with whatever I do.

*ahem*

:)

James.

I have wet weather gear, put on pants. It doesn't really rain on me.

We head off to Stillorgan for my Birthday. Fionn heads back home as she forgot to leave golie gear out for Clare. I'm reluctant for her to leave us but .... :-7 WEe have fun! Daire & Kate & I. First we walk along the path on the shopping centre. Kate runs! Daire goes ahead. Kate looks real cute pounding along. It's windy still. Not sure where to go - gates pulled most of way over - most shops shut. We go across road discover the attica cafe place is open 9-6 and closed for holidays anyway till tomorrow. Then down to the cinema and loiter there a little. Then back to shopping centre crossing at pedestrian lights. Onto ice-crewam van ride. Until kate wants to do wee wee! She RUNS off towards probably shut shopping centre toilets. I persuade her and we go to Eddie rockets. Spend our time in loo. Then get table and have just finished ordering when Fionn arrives. YAY! Good timing.

Atomic burger for me & chips. Chips & hotdogs both kids. Milkshakes all of us. Water & fish for Fionn. We have too much chips between us all. I wrap up leftovers and pocket them (nice leather jacket).

Kids & I walk over to leisure centre. Fionn drives. Inside clamber on car game, other games. Oops motorbike game just Fionn. Then Fionn helps Daire, me on other bike. Kate wants off! She wanders far away and we have to search. Fionn finds her. Daire & I play airplane game. Then skateboard. me first then Daire then we mind Kate (who's wet pants & visited loo with Fionn) while Fionn has a skate. Time to go. WAH! Fionns handbag is lost. I get kids in car. They're hungry and eat chips & hot dogs. Fionn's bag is behind counter. Whew!

Home. Kids up to bed. Read Kate story. She wants 6 more! Start on Matilda (Roald Dahl) for Daire (I've never read it maybe I think). Myself other night finished Blackberry wine.

Downstairs (TV upstairs last few days) we talk. Fionn has made cappuchinos. I get guitar. Play she's a good girl then sonny then I hope that I don't fall in love with you, ... after a bit Fionn says should learn Jake the Peg and Scarlet Ribbons. I dunno Scarlet Ribbons at all (at least I think) Fionn finds it on Sinead O'Connor CD. Not immediately I write down notes. Then figure out chords that work. Write all in palm then on a page. By end I practically know it. TODO: put scarlet ribbons lyrics, notes & chords on web. It's half past midnight me going to bed. I'm a bit wakeful. Maybe the coffee. Sleep after a while.

wussy hippy philosophical stuff:

 I believe in ... 

  open source

  fair trade

  sustainable use of environment
  
  being useful & helping for no apparent reward (there is always a 
    reward so I could never say no reward)

 not making a fuss (which seems to be not how to get things done)
 not taking things too far 

 I don't believe in ...

  God or gods. I do believe in peace, understanding, tolerance.

 How do we then reconcile living in a peaceful rich society?
 Fight to keep it that way or run away?
  

It pours rain hometime. No wet gear so I get SOAKed. Fionn with two sleepy kids in car in driveway. Shower. TODO (get from email)

More phone callignhole for me than usual lookign for John's address.

Windsurf for me evening. Wind's good. 5m sail. I get creamed don't manage a turn at all whole night. Straps swinging really long & flappy. Getting tired ish but fun. Choppy waves ... turning either way too much wind or too little. Also trying waterstart mostly too little wind!? :-7 So don't manage much of anything but fun.
THe yerman back to windsurf there advice on going FASTER. Hops up wall chat to Italian chick too.

Type up relais todo and main issues and email. Stella asks do some javascript for Alphyra Internet stuff. Takes a while - install files,

Sat meet Lucia botanic(al|o|) gardens. Call to surfdock on way back. New (2nd hand sail). Fintan I think. Randall too.

We head to town (real early it's like 11:00 and feels like 15:00! Look at all the free parking near zoo! goto Phoenix (Fionn uisce) park interprative centre. then deer then playground

Daire had no violin yesterday - staff meeting. Balmy SW winds (very gale-force blustery) but real warm outside. He was switchboarding up & down path yesterday evening. Kate was cross & wanted a petit filou b4 dinner but was distracted by going out for a walk on the green. We picked up rubbish (which Kate REALLY enjoyed). And saw a big fluffy doggie which Kate was not so sure about. She was wrecked - bed & sleep 19:00. She's a bit of a cold at the moment. Was singing in the wind on the back of the bike this morning.

He finds crossbar quite OW! and bumpy :( Nice enough day. We get to St. Olaf's GAA. We're late (almost 10:30!). Loads of kids groups hurling. We fish out helmet and hurl for Daire. I say ask guy in white & green stripe. Daire days he'll ask head coach. Then he marches off and quickly gets slower and shyer and saunters and slips into group. (of white and green stripe guy who has just been distracted by parent! DOH!) He fishes equipment for girl and off to girls group. then back to his group. Going s l o w l y. I leave Daire still not having whacked anything.

Cycle to Stillorgan. Hmmm. Make my space among traffic. Park bike. Drop in Fionn's watch for 10 mins for battery. Go look for milk frother - nope. Do find 5 plug extension get it for doolin. yai! 6:50 for battery change. Go to Dunnes, get some tops for Kate - only 2.50 and 3.00 euros. Go to bookshop Get envelopes. Cycle - not time to go home and get car SO go to GAA.

See Daire playing Gaelic. Looks more like rugby! Also see him get kick in face on ground. He cries & is consoled & gets bakk and legs it & on rebound gets goal. A little bit more play before finish. He sees me, is pleased, waves and runs very fast. I praise him telling I saw his goal. He tells me bunch of stuff and hurling and I tell hime didn't want to be late so bike.

We roll up his coat as padding. Works much better. Passing by roadworks a car comes out - looks like someone in for a goo. We head in too for a look. No security around. All the way up the road going directly towards our house actually. Over half of bridge. Earth on far side and diggers working. Then up towards Sandyford. Almost all way but there is a security guy at far side so we head all the way back. We go to butcher and get stuff. Then finally home.

Shopping comes just a bit after 13:00. Milk frother broken so no cappuchinos. In fact no coffee!! :-O Notice this later when getting slight headache. Dose with strong tea. Fionn organises us and We pile selves into car and go to Aiken's village new housing development showhouses. Interesting. Back home for 16:30. Aideen calls. We have tea and bread/biscuits.

? some time today Play guitar Puff the Magic dragon, Hallelulia (Leonard Cohen). Daire likes. Conor hears them and is wondering I think. I play some songs while Aedin & Fionn talk in kitchen.

WAHIE! Fionn yells at 18:30 just after realising time. Starts cleaning the kitchen!! Hey! She tells me she told me to do it. HEY! I object and she says okay she didn't TELL me but she did drop a hint. So anyway I missed it. BUT anyway. Chop fresh bread rolls. Cheese/ham on one, jam on other, orange also for kids. Then up & get dressed. Then drive to collect Ruth. Call to check her brother has house keys in Maxol service station on way back. Then bye bye. Kate little shy of ruth but smiling. Daire & Kate watching TV when we leave.

Vrmmm we see someone at bus stop & pick them up. A German girl, she's an au pair for doctors in Sandyford. Fionn & her compare kids & countires. I forget myself slightly and end up driving towards Christchurch a bit overshot from Havana which would be a few streets over. We go right and drop girl very close to Sptphen's green really. U turn. Up Wicklow Street. In and park in weird crammed no pay parking place. Stop by bank to extract money. We're 5th and 6th to the party. YAY! Mochito I start with. Fionn water.

Barry and Aine (Audrey?) she's student in ?UCD? town planning & stuff. Aine was in Music Network. Also arrive Kate and Orla in Music Network. Kate's doing part time economics & law. Orla off to Paris. People exchange seats a few times. We've big conversation about travel - Europe and Paris and Malaysia and ... AND cooking and food and shopping.

Yum food distributed to rightful owners as per Stella's spreadsheet. Paella and meatballs for me, Fionn lentil & spicy sausage soup and chicken kebabs with chilli dip. Pinchitos selection of starters sharing.

Mike's been snowboarding. Weight & ctrl on front foot! I have a minor epiphany. Yeah oh like ski-ing keep weight forward. Mike says surfing ctrl on back foot. Windsurf too (that's the part in the water most weight on). Weight forward ski/snowboard to increase control with front foot. I tell him about my 3 snowboard days. One in Austria I'd almost forgotten myself. Snowboard down front hill. Then back up top. Must collect Daire. Snowboarding down from top. Nasty long hoppy unstrap trudge flat bits. THEN arrive bottom of mountain WRONG run!!?!?! Augh! Lift back up but next lift would go ALL the way to top!!! So cut across up a road and across slopes by foot. Then down slopes that are too flat really and eventually just in time to collect Daire.

Down other end I catch up with Fionn and all talking about sex in the city and the final episodes. I want to go back to geeks!! :(

Later geekiness with Mike & Tim from ESAT (setting Mike up with DSL and server in webfarm). I tell of my php & apache exploits causing kernel panic. Also Mike & what doing in Doolin & looking for people & tech talks delayed.

Downstairs we go. Book talk I get a few things I MUST write into palm and look up. We've to leave just as Tim buys me another Jamacian herstelt in ENGLAND red stripe beer. Whoo I'm toasted. Home we get. I drink lots of water. Fionn back after dropping Ruth. Bed.

BUSY BUSY doolin no time check email or anything. php for alphyra intranet mostly. Finish off and get hierarchial menus working. ALSO have some *FuN* bring down server. I'm building urls & reformatting in php so I can read them. Oops don't notice all spaces etc. are now in url. I click. Mozilla whirls and .... does nothing. "Hmmm" I say. Stop mozilla. Back to server and vi is not responding. Interesting noises from around room. "Hey is bakunin okay?" "Time for coffee!" Process runs wild uses loads of mem and goes until kernel panic. After fix that cause SAME thing using url with 1 field blank. This worrying as easy enough to do on real server.

To test should really reproduce on less critical machine. Probably can fix code so as not to do it in specific cases. Probably can in general fix it using apache resource limiting. BUT we don't want this intranet work apparently (though we seem to be most popular choice to do it by dint of technical ability, speed of delivery (2 dev days this time) and expense (we should charge LOADS more!)).

Rush off to collect kids from school. Traffic is really thick and slow moving. David runs out excitedly coat unzipped flying off starts running away towards gate I go "woah wait will you get Daire?". They're happy chaps. David's cars were confiscared though as he played with them during work time. We go in to ask Miss Molloy and she won't give them back. :) :-O :)

We head back off up home. David goes home. Take in bin. Hi Noel. Then to shop. Daire not sure about different shop (maybe he wants chips?). Get grapes for Daire. Baguette for me & apple & banana. White bread sandwich with ham and egg for Daire. Also yop.

Everybody is in work, Ray too. Daire uses windows laptop. Try find games he had fun with before ... but can't ? Find others. vnc is running so I can help him. Also others take a look. Daire does drawing with paint prog. Finds some good games. Goes for coffee with us, plays some foosball. I get all my email for last few days read/deleted/replied to. Finish up & test fully intranet menus. Type up & send intranet issues to Aimee. We mean to head home 16:00 but it's after 17:00.

Collect Kate. Still about 10 kids in creche. She's doing jigsaws and doesn't see us immediately. Then does jump up & run over. We go out and wander round car park and under trees. We find a small tree shoot, underneath it's a conker with root shoot and branch up. We find another. Also looking at other stuff around. Looks like hollow conkers and flesh of .. a conker? half eaten with skin nibbled off. ?? Dropped by a squirrel and lost ?? And a hazelnut.

Drive home. Not much fresh food in house I cook spagetti and stuff but ... make a mess. Too much flour. Kate & Daire have spagetti with tomato juice. And Kate has some of Daire's grapes. And I have Daire's remnants of sandwich. Violin practice? Probably. And TV. Maybe. Getting ready for bed. Read stories. Fionn back just as stories finish. She comes & says night night to kids. Kate settles & doesn't come in & out of bed 10 times!

We have tea downstairs. Talk & tv. Fionn feels why are we not moving down the country. I take her up wrong and feel I'm being grilled so go defensive but they were rhetorical questions. whew :) Using Fionn's laptop I dial up & do superquinn shop on internet for 11:00-13:00 tomorrow.

Okay. Do transaction with my original setup on bakunin. Pin sale success. Whew! Don't quite realise my fix I wasn't sure of only knew it fixed fake modem has been a success right now.

Time to burn cd with mops rse/cbe and files and utilities. That goes grand. Waider prompts me.

• Create directory with all in it.
  ls ~/mopsrsecd/
  contact.html cygwin index.html RSE src tools
• mkisofs -l -R -J -o mopsrseR.iso ./mopsrsecd/
• Test:
  mkdir RSETEST
  sudo mount mopsrse.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop RSETEST
  ls -al RSETEST
  sudo umount RSETEST
• sudo cdrecord -scanbus
  sudo cdrecord dev=help mopsrse.iso
  sudo cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 mopsrse.iso
• sudo mount /dev/cdrom
  ls -al /mnt/cdrom
  ls /mnt/cdrom/RSE/
  initrse.bat mops-rse.exe req.11.1000.txt rse.txt
  killall.sh mops-rse-server.exe rse.setup.txt startrse.sh
  sudo umount /dev/cdrom

17:00 augh panic. last test of mops rse dials up & receives response BUT doesn't successfully sell pin. Lck file left in dirs! AUGH, There have been MANY cosmetic changes and in particular changes to modem init/send/receive routines to make them consistent. Was 0 for success for some, 1 for success for others. -1 or 0 or other numbers could be others. I head home anyway. Foo. Fionn going to soccer.

I'm so stressed. I tell Fionn over dinner. Makes me feel a bit better. then she gets all stressed and tells me go back to work. no no! I get kids to bed grand thinking about it whole time. Fionn brings her laptop from work and then back to soccer. I dial up and am able to build and host test but not test on windows laptop. I fix a few things that look wrong. Test on fionn's pc (windows 2000) and am able to fix fake modem problem where it failed on modem receive as return code had been changed and code checking it expectedc old values. Not fully able to test with real modem as Fionn's is winmodem. I do find it on com3 but cannot set it in v.22bis properly so not confident fixed is perfect.

Bed tired, still anxious feeling but I sleep fine.

On top we have juice break & orange & other. Kate is not steady on her feet on the rough uneven ground and especially on top of mountain where perspective is funny. Down we go and Fionn close to boys getting them to go slow. After shoulder boys take off and get far ahead Fionn & I chatting. Fionn heads on & Kate & I make our way. On smoother bits Kate & I run a bit and catch boys too. See Kate has cut her lip or tongue? :( But she's smiling (but a bit cold also - she hasn't got much exercise out of this exercise)

Home to Fionn & kids. Fish & dried pea & veg stuff & potatoes yum. Shopping arrives. I have a beer. Into sitting room relax a bit. Tell Fionn over dinner and relaxing a bit about Doolin meeting. and

IVR and thinking hey ... IVR on set top box just answering machine, fancy IVR secretary & other features. for small business extendible IVR. And thinking myself IVR mud, "you are stuck in a maze of twisty passages all alike" and meeting people there and transfer to chat to them and IVR games and and and ....

Bring kids up to bed. Daire way faster than Kate in finished brushing teeth & I just got pyjamas on Kate. We read Fix it Duck for Kate. Then Daire's pig book (babe). Then Peter Rabbit for Kate. Daire off to sleep - lonely he says. Kate heads off into our bed. I bumble around on landing taking clothes from clotheshorse and folding them. Kate never appears out wandering. Great.

Fionn is on laptop downstairs (newish for her in work). Doing CMM assesment checklists in Excel. I tidy kitchen a little. Play guitar - newly downloaded songs worked better last night & Yesterday evening I had marked chords that worked and wrote down others I got to work.

• When Johnny comes marching home.
• When the saints come marching in.
• A B C.
• Finish with Puff the Magic Dragon. Quite sad Puff really.

Make tea, chat Fionn

No heat in Dundalk. Fionn's mum has terrible cold. Much hot water bottle making before bed. Also electric heater plugged into adaptor then into plug. Adaptor smells, brown patch developing. We swap it out. Later & tomorrow I take it apart. Insides were broken (red bit stopping kids poking wire in while nothing plugged in). This has melted and maybe been cause of other damage BUT contact right up touching white plastic (now brown) probably also cause. ANYWAY. Up late sitting room, reading newspaper, half watch TV. Chat - Fionn's Grandad interested in security - Sheila brought priests computer to recycling centre in Dundalk. Later Gardai talked to her wanting to know her connedction with Dundalk. Someone had bought PC, gone through letters & stuff on hard drive and story in newspaper about priest sending supportive letter to other priest in trouble over child molestation. Anyway. We get into proper data deletion and nuke/wiping.

Middle of night Kate cross. Me cranky get her up & into bed with Fionn. I head in with hot water bottle to small room. It IS freezing .... but warm up under covers. Morning sleep in till nearly 11. Toasty warm.

Park. Bring Kate in. Marie just answering phone when we arrive. Avril there too. Coat off Daire. He's smiling and just looks calm and happy. Marie gets him toast and Kate & I head away. We go fast enough (no wind) road, cycle patchs, road speed bumps. Meet creche carer getting dropped with her kid. In Kate goes, I say bye. Vrmmm ... to Doolin.

I put out rubbish, paper, compost. Get out bike. See Dermot getting kids into car. When I come back in Tracy is there. I get Daire coat on & bag & off to Dermot for lift to school. Kate shows Tracy books. Reads books while I get her clothes off, nappy on, clothes on. Hat on & coat, money for Tracy then out we go. Show Kate how she can put on her coat. Lay upside down on ground, ... arms in then UP over head. Kate wants her pink bag not in my bag. We put it round saddle. Laura drives down road just as we go out. We pass her out of estate. They pass us leop road somewhere. We see them just going off roundabout. Lady in car asks us where is hospital so we direct her. Up road, park, Kate puts bag on her back and marches into creche.

Cycle on to work. As can see from diary entries am not being productive today :( Having many ideas want to do and to little time :-7 So for writing: