John and Andrea Udberg

This site is now using over 7 gigabytes of storage on the hosting server and I had to upgrade our hosting plan, this was the cause of the recent outage.  We now have upto 100gb of space so there is plenty of room for more hi resolution photographs

I have finished my 5 weeks of initial training with BA and have been in my first placement since Monday.   Unfortunately, due to BA’s HR department and the recent postal strikes, I have one reference which still needs checking (it is currently somewhere in the postal void between here and London).  Without a full reference check I cannot access the computer systems and cannot do… well, much at all.

Andrea is looking forward to the half term break for some sleep and planning time.  I am sure she will find a few moments to further raid the North Easts fine charity shops for childrens books and games. When she returns she will be taking over the classroom fulltime as her job share partner has decided to be a stay at home mum!

After the dissapointment of New Zealands premeture exit from the Rugby World Cup (Andrea sulked for a whole week), we (mostly me) are looking forward to the final on Saturday, howay the lads.

John and Andrea.

Ps. The title of the post refers to an excellent and very funny new game from Valve called Portal, part of the orange box collection.

The Beast is built.  It was a fairly painless procedure and was completed in a couple of hours.  I had heard that the P180 case was difficult to work with to make the cables neat.  I found it pretty easy… then found out today this was because I had actually been shipped a P182! I know, crazy eh?  :) 

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Advance warning… Tech talk post

After watching the latest hardware come and go over the last three years I have finally had the opportunity to take the plunge!

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I promised Mike when we first arrived in NZ that I would do a website for the college. It has taken a while to get round to it but here it is…

The site is just about finished and is going to be handed over soon, exciting!

John.

WARNING!  Long and boring post ahead for the non-tech minded…

So we are beginning to think about getting ready to leave NZ.  We haven’t actually done much to prepare as of yet, but we are thinking about it!

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