Update

OK, OK, I was supposed to keep this up to date a bit more often. Excuses? Well, on the biking side, the weather has been almost uniformly miserable, bad enough over the recent weekend that I couldn't even see the end of the road. Not conducive to riding with confidence.

Work-wise, I've also been somewhat busy: most of the details are perforce not things I can write about here, but the generalities are OK. Spent some time in Wales setting up a system - interesting people and work, but a long way to go. We need to plan how we're going to support this with care, since I don't want to let anyone down or leave them feeling neglected. Back in Scotland, the local support requirements remain, and we're making more efforts to get out and press the flesh a bit. Although we do maintain systems remotely, it's not he same as being seen on site.

Plus we've had a couple of near-disasters on the networking side on our own site, including losing our Internet connectivity through waht I can only imagine was a phoneline spike - took out both the router and firewall. Somewhat fortunate that I had spare kit to replace the aging boxes we used, but it is not as effective. The upside of this is that it's forced us into investing in new kit, with all the concomitant enjoyment of configuring it. Joy - not.