Category — garden

Well I decided in my wisdom to go into Manchester this morning to take some pictures whilst Janet did some work. I got precisely didily squat that I was happy with. Although I did see some Peregrine Falcons, which was nice.

I did take a semi decent picture of Janet when I got home though…

Not  really a lot going on at the minute, we are redoing the bathroom which is taking a lot of time, but I’m looking forward to getting it done. Although chosing all the fittings etc is very testing!

This weather isn’t particuarly great for any decent outdoor photos, so I’m looking for inspiration for photos in the rainy season!

With all the wedding excitement I forgot to mention that we’ve finally finished the garden. It’s taken us about 15 months, but it looks amaizing now. I’m really pleased with all the work we’ve done. Be sure to check the the pictures.

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I’ve spent a good chunk of today playing with OpenPBX, which is a fork of the Asterisk project. As far as I understand OpenPBX is aiming to be truly open source to make it more stable than Asterisk, which has some non open source codecs included, thus hopefully making it more stable. Well let me tell you now, it’s very stable for me…. stable in a non working state that is! Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s going to be great once I manage to get it working. The problem lies with the Digium card we bought. Digium support proved to be truly useless. I called them up, and seemed I knew more about the product than they did, and as I wasn’t using Asterisk, they offered me very little support and certainly wouldn’t take a look at our server.Â

Not perturbed I managed to compile the drivers manually after a while and it reports its up and running. However, now OpenPBX now fails to load, it reports an error initializing chan_misdn, returns -1. So now I’m in the middle of going through all the source code to trace the problem. Nightmare!

 On another note, I’ve just put a couple more photos of the garden up.

Right, i’ve decided it’s about time I joined the rejoined the masses and restarted my blog. I’m in the middle (well hopefully past the middle) of landscaping my back garden. It’s proving to be rather a large job, we’ve been doing it since March! We (Janet and I) are off to see Casino Royale this afternoon. Perhaps I’ll post more later.

Update: I’ve added some photo galleries, including one of the garden project. Take a look here.