v40 towbar

bought a towbar on ebay for 51 quid (although the guy says it will cost 27quid to post it to me!). It looks great - a proper volvo detachable towbar. he says the electrics all work and that he has instructions with it but i have requested that he send me photographic proof as i am a bit wary. i am worried about buying an unfixable part.

i hope he doesn't get cheesed off and sell it to someone else cos i really want it. maybe i should just pay and get on with it. i can always ebay it to someone else. the trouble is he might have stolen it from someones car and i don't want to buy stolen goods because i don't want to deprive anyone of anything. if he has all bits it is certainly bonified.

hooray

livna packages have been released

livna packages

have upgraded to the latest kernel on fedora but the livna nvidia packages have not come out yet. the version is 766 and i am stuck on the older kernel (maybe 741) until they release that package (i am not going back to doing it the hard way!).

why oh why can't nvidia release the source for their graphics cards so it can be included with the kernel and then i wouldn't have to keep installing it. i am sure creating good hardware is more important to a graphics card manufacturer than buggering about with drivers. they could also benefit from a bit of prodding and poking from the open source guys. hey, they may even be smart enough to help with a few optimisations!

flu

i am so ill at the moment. i feel like there is serious pressure inside my head. keep getting phonecalls from work though which is not very relaxing.

volvo v40

sofia and i were thinking about trading the car in for another. we went to look at a ford mondeo automatic diesel but it was nothing special. after the test drive we were just glad to get back into our car. volvos are really nice.

this leaves us with the problem of our trip to spain in the summer. we need to get a towbar fitted on the car so that we can stick all the stuff in a trailer. i have ebayed the roofrack and roofbox. what a waste of time! no space at all in those things!

volvo quoted £372.54 to fit one which is frankly outrageous. a local towbar specialist quoted £200 which seems more reasonable, although i have been trying to investigate what is involved with fitting one myself. there is a towtrust towbar on ebay for £40 but it looks like a bundle of wires that i wouldn't know anything about.

also trailers aren't cheap. i wonder if my dad will let me nick his?

2 months

it has been 2 months since i posted to my blog. time is going so fast at the moment. it doesn't seem that long since i upgraded my computer.

if having fun means that time goes too fast maybe i should start drinking heavily, get into a heavy depression and start arguing constantly with my family in order to make my time on this earth seem a bit longer.

or maybe not...

FC3 blog entry poster

woo hoo! just updated the FC3 blog entry poster and now it actually runs up without error. now i can post to my blog again!