Farmor and Farfar and Lukas have come over for a visit for a few weeks so they can be here for Thor’s baptism and so Lukas can spend his summer holiday with Bo. Bo’s taken time off work as well, so the house is busy and full! Since there is a recession on – Mr. Brown denies this but all the signs are there, including the maxi-skirt coming back into fashion – we thought it would be a good idea to buy a sewing machine. But of course there is no such thing in our tight family budget. So Farmor and Farfar offered to buy it for us in return for eating us out of house and home (just kidding, we love having them here!). It also counts as an early birthday present for Bo. So we are now the proud owners of a Husqvarna Viking Emerald, Swedish quality made in Taiwan. Now to learn to sew…

I seem to have brought some structure into our home network with the help of a small Win2K3 SBS server. Most of the benefits are in the realm of systems administration but there are a few very good points for the users, such as backups of files, roaming profiles etc.

There is a bit of a problem with the backups though. I have a LVD-SCSI DLT tapedrive but my controler card have gone missing between the last house and this one. It’s probably a very good indication I need to organise my mostly quite outdated hardware but perhaps I should just get an external HDD and replicate the lot.

Safe to say my home network isn’t mission critical but my wife is my most important user.