Its that time of the month again

Oh dear, now that I am nearing the end of dying (this illness is finally starting to clear up), my server has decided to have its period today :(
Apparently my Windows Server 2008 R2 installation on partition G:  has a problem and cant boot. Strange, since it was installed on C: ...... hmmmmmmmm

So its back to the community ( http://superuser.com/questions/350685/windows-server-2008-r2-only-boots-to-recovery-console ) to see if anyone can help. Tried all the standard things, but none of them want to work, grrrr. Well better now than closer to the hand ins for my dissertation.

I was even planning to buy another 4TB for the server to back up everything, but that idea went down the drain when I discovered that because of flooding somewhere in one of these countries where they make HDDs, the prices of them have doubled in the past week - grrrrr

Oh well, now just to wait and see how long its going to take to get my server back online so I can finish installing and configuring all the components I need to do my programming.

Back to reality now.........

Illness

So, its 2.30 am and I am awake, all because of this silly head cold, including sore throat, coughing and blocked nose. How is my day going to be productive if in awake every 2 hours??? I guess so much for a productive Sunday.....

The beginnings of a dissertation

So, it looks like I'm supposed to start writing a dissertation and making some sort of program to go with it. Its supposed to be fancy, show off my strong points, and most importantly - WORK (or so they say)...

So lets see, this blog already had the name "Techie with a Tractor", which clearly is supposed to mean I like technology and tractors, so I think I shall base my project on something to include the both.

/Lightbulb

"GOT IT" - I shouted out one day (this must have been a few months back now). "I'll make a mobile app for farm management."

...And today children I still seem to stand by this crazy and perplexing idea. An people say I'm crazy because of the platform I'm going to program it for (also please note that people called me crazy beforehand anyway).

WINDOWS PHONE 7.5 (aka Mango)

"So its for a Micro$oft product", I hear you say in agony. Well the simple answer is YES! Whether this is a mistake, we shall find out in due course.

Meanwhile, over the past few weeks, I've been plying around with basic things from tutorials, getting my self-hosted SVN (VisualSVN with Tortoise) up and running, and still trying to sort out my blessed network issue: see: http://superuser.com/q/348247/95379

So that's enough babbling for one day. According to some of the useful emails I get, I have to write some kind of doku before Wednesday............

Oh well, lecture time now anyway, saved by the bell....................