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Through Snow and Flood to Linux and Tomcat

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-02-10 21:15:42 - Graham Ellis



I arrived in Milton Keynes on Sunday night ... to find at 9 p.m. a hotel where they had closed the restaurant early for lack of customers, and after an appalling drive the advertised meal was not to be had. The final 3 staff took pity on me - one of few customers around, and the only one not in his room - and did me up a bowl of pea and ham soup, and I stood around chatting with them, and with a pint of Guinness as they finished the tidy up. In hindsight, I had only just made it over from Bicester and Buckingham, watching where other cars were spinning and taking care where I could; a 20 mile an hour creep extended a ride that would normally take around 25 minutes to between 2 and 3 times that, and I had been glad to see the lights of Milton Keynes. The conditions were so dire I hadn't even thought of taking pictures to show you!

My course is going well - I'm doing a combined deploying LAMP and Tomcat private course about 4 miles from where I am staying, but even that journey is interesting. See at the top of this item ... this morning's picture of the car (I have Lisa's this week - pretty, but impractical in the snow), and the floods which Lisa is probably happy that I declined to take it through - that picture taken just a hundred yards from where I am training.