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Productive Procrastination

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 04th September, 2007 @ 15:18

Here's what I should be doing right now. Maybe making a list will help with making them happen. Maybe it's just a good way to post something here for September so I don't get all neurotic about not updating the site for another 45 days or so.

  • Get subversion set up and in order for 2 separate clients, one on Windows, one on Linux. Then explain as fully as possible how they should be using it.
  • Verify several of the backup procedures we currently have in place are all working optimally.
  • Finish the Django app I've been working on and package it up into a nice .EXE for easy installation on Windows. Document said application. Deliver to client on Thursday morning.
  • Fill in the registration documentation for my Open University course "Introduction to the Humanities", remember to take it to London tomorrow to get Richard to sign it so they can invoice the company for £565, and get it in the post so it'll be with them no later than the 7th.
  • Write some sieve scripts to make my email more organised now I've moved it all to a new setup of Postfix+Dovecot.
  • Move the above mail setup (in it's nice little virtual machine) to a server in a data centre rather than in my spare room. The company's email probably shouldn't rely on my house being in tact, powered and attached to the Internet.
  • Finish building clever subtitle system by building the clever subtitle component.
  • Reinstall neuron2 after a couple of signs of a rootkit, finally taking it up to Debian Etch in the process (the easy part), migrate the email, sites and other general fluff (the hard part).
  • Help client move their DNS to a provider that allows them to change their zonefile even if it's the evening or a weekend.

So I should be doing those things instead of writing this really. After that I should...

  • Make sure I'm in Stratford for a meeting at 10.30 tomorrow.
  • Pick up servers from central London remembering to pay the congestion charge.
  • Remind Richard I really need my house key otherwise Sophie may be starved of food and attention while I'm in Amsterdam over the weekend. If he doesn't then it's probably best I don't come back if I value my life.
  • Tidy house a little so it's not too embarrassing to face the kind people feeding Sophie upon my return.
  • Win lottery/sell company for lots of money/save lots of money and sort out house and garden and car and life in general.

On the plus side however, I do have a list of things that I have done...

  • Found passport.
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