Time for another rant, this time its a little less geeky that my complaint about hosting companies.
Last week I travelled up to Scotland for Susan's Graduation Ball, since it was a long weekend I took a few extra days off, though I hadn't been in work much that week due to the joys of a nice stomach bug. Nothing a few antibiotics can't fix though!
Due to the now almost comical restrictions at airports with hand luggage I had to wear my kilt up since I was a bit short of space in the case since I'd needed to stuff my entire Kilt carrier into it with the remainder of the stuff. So after taking off my jacket, shoes, belt and getting my laptop out of its bag and placing it on the scanner I walked through the metal detector and of course I went off. This is where it gets good, the person who was meant to search me wasn't sure how he was going to manage the leg sweep without looking like a pervert, in the end it was the hand wand but still its fairly annoying.
Today I went through security again (sitting in the BA lounge just now) and luckily I wasn't searched. I'm off to Berlin this weekend to give a talk on Web 2.0 Security, mainly a talk about what not to do when making everything full of that good AJAX stuff.
iBook is also repaired after being dead for a little over 3 months, it had the infamous logic board / GPU failure in regards to a dry joint connecting one of the chips. On Sunday my dad and I went about taking the laptop to pieces before re-soldering each of the legs on the chip, I wish I'd taken photos now as the chip was so small that a 10 times loupe was required. In the end I now have a working iBook again for this weekends presentation.
