Back from 3 weeks in Cyprus. Excellent stuff. Some some very disappointing world cup football, but lots of lovely sunshine and sea. I went water skiing for the first time in about 18 years and found that it’s like riding a bike (well, not really), but it all comes back pretty quickly and I didn’t have any trouble staying up on a mono. Mind you, my arms and shoulders were aching for a week afterwards!
Did a couple of dives too – saw the most amazing thermocline – like watching oil and water mixed, with a shimmery reflection off the interface 20m down!
Z had a great time – sorted out potty training (hooray!) and she can swim pretty well now.
Evacuated!
I was bringing Zoë back from Nursery at about 6:40 last night when I noticed some smoke coming from behind the buildings on our road. It turned out to be quite a large fire in some garages and quite a few people were watching what was happening. A couple of minutes later the fire brigade arrived and the access road was quickly shut off. I went indoors and found I got quite a good view from a bedroom window, so I took a few pictures. A few minutes later there was quite a big explosion with a fireball about 30m high.
After half an hour or so, the police asked us to evacuate, so we went out for dinner. It was still all cordoned off when we came back, so we stayed at a friends place.
Skype sourceforge project released
Skype finally updated their Mac client to support web presence status, so I could finally do some tests, fix some minor niggles, and do a proper release of my Skype PHP classes.
They also updated their developer docs, saying they had fixed all the errors, but its just not true! Nearly all the errors I reported are still there, so they took the doc down again ;^) Apparently they are considering my proposal for some fixed status IDs in order to facilitate automated testing of presence API clients.
Skype SourceForge project up
I’ve finally got my Skype SourceForge project up and running. I sorted out SF’s subversion setup too, and I’ve stuck some PHP classes in the respository – needs rounding out before a file release though.
Installing MediaWiki on SourceForge’s project web area was a little uncomfortable, so I submitted a patch to them to make that kind of thing easier.