Sometimes you need to code

The Gorse Fox was up long before the rest of the family and quietly sat and read the paper, Face-ache, and Twitter. Once everyone was up and about and we'd had breakfast, the Gorse Fox settled down with some ironing whilst the girls performed their interminable ablutions. By the time they were finished, so was he.

They say that a change is as good as a rest. Today, the Gorse Fox wanted to write some code. It's always a great pleasure to challenge yourself with a little bit of coding. This was hardly rocket science. This was not the sort of problem that would set Richard Feynman aflame. It was, however, something that he had been promising himself for several weeks. It was was just a basic housekeeping routine which would clear down old logs and old SQL backups, but it needed to be done. The Gorse Fox was bored with going in and clearing them manually. It didn't take too long to write and test and once done it was plugged into crontab on "peregrine" to run daily. Sorted.

The Silver Vixen, Urban-Cub and Ellie had gone out to do some shopping while the Gorse Fox was indulging his need to code. They got back in time for us all to have lunch together.

This afternoon the Gorse Fox returned to the videos from 1992. The Silver Vixen was sewing and Urban-Cub was having a quiet afternoon with Ellie. The Gorse Fox has now added a video of his business trip to South Africa in August 1992. He started off in Jo'burg where he called on several clients and gave several lectures; then we hit Pretoria for another lecture; finally we flew down to Cape Town. In Cape Town we, again, saw several big clients, and had one lecture to deliver. After the business side was done he had the chance to take a look around - Table Mountain, Hout Bay, Cape Point, and False Bay. It really was quite a trip.