Oh, did you see Torchwood finish?

Right at the end, the hand in the jar that activated just before the Tardis sound when Caption Jack disappeared.

What say it’s Doctor Who’s right hand that was cut off in the sword fight at the end of the Christmas 2005 special (when David Tennant who was still regenerating, and was thus able to regenerate the missing hand)?

Gets my vote, off to the net to see if anyone else thinks so…  Ah, I see from Wiki that it was in last October’s Radio Times (or rad-ee-ot-im-eees as it’s known in my family – it’s the Latin pronunciation!)

And now...

Having sent in some test emails to the client’s new server I think I understand what’s going on!

So to today’s paper and then bed!

And so back to work!

Although I’d been researching over the last couple of days, today was the first day back at the coalface after new year; and a long educational day it was!

Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 is always entertaining – the environments are so old, those responsible long gone, and the documentation modest or non-existent – and this is no exception.

So whilst the early work went well (despite a third party’s installation of Exchange 2003 onto the network 2 years ago without telling the client!), but later on mailbox moves did not play so well.  The test mailboxes moved fine, but the first real world one could no longer receive public email.    Doing the usual “check through the logs” thing brought up a host of errors on the old server.  But an hour or so’s work determined that these were actually nothing to do with it, but other errors latent on the old server anyway!

Well, at least the VB code I wrote to inject appointments into people’s calendars works a treat and the client can start to consider moving their application over!

I must do better :-)

In order to keep some control over things I keep a voice recorder in the car to record mileage and fuel purchases and so on.  Well I’ve left it a long time, this afternoon I spent an inordinate amount of time transcribing and getting data in that was meaningful 2 months ago before I went on a training course…  Hey ho.

And then there’s the pile of paperwork from the training course that I must sort out too – invoices, receipts and so on in £ and € so there’s even more hassle doing the exchange rate conversion as well.

Happy New Humbug!