This amused me today, I’d never given a thought to the bar staff who smoke. Now they are hanging around outside like all the other smokers.

Jenny bought me this as a birthday present back in Feb. Have only just got round to starting it.

Nice shot from Ollie of the big Nosram in the Savvy

Got a bonus bought a toy. Its an HPI Savage X SS 4.6. Took me about 15 hours to build from the kit, now I’m running it in.

Much fun!

Finally got around to sorting these pics from months ago. Time flies!

I have finally got round to cat5ing the house. All finished now, just got to move the equipment into the right places.

I love these two little cottages just outside Powderham Castle. Steve and I once came very close to ending up in the front room of the one on the left, thanks in part to the very sharp corner between the two and also partly due to some over enthusiastic teenage driving.

If you are using a older version of php connecting to a recent mysql (like os X Server 10.4 has) you will probably need to use the OLD_PASSWORD function in your SQL when creating the user or setting the password.

Normally you might do something like this to set a users password:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = PASSWORD('mypassword');

Whereas if you see this message from php:

"Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"

You will almost certainly need to use the OLD_PASSWORD function to encrypt the password, like this:

mysql>

SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('mypassword');

This is documented more in the MySQL Reference Manual (Broken link ~~http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html~~).

It might appear to those paying vague attention that all I do these days is create large fires. This, I admit, is partly true.