What Graham Did Next...

Today, Jon and Corinna are swanning around London - he's up there to give a talk at the Royal Academy - so I'll take this opportunity to say a bit about what I've been up to lately.

My job title is somewhat misleading. I don't deputise for Jon to any great extent, I seem to spend most of my time troubleshooting things. In view of the weather it was lucky that most of my activities over the last few weeks involved being indoors.

In December I installed a new version of the forum software on our server, and a large chunk of that month was then spent trying to get it to work. It turned out the new version is incompatible with the existing server software, so that was a right waste of time. For now, anyway. Apparently they're going to upgrade it early this year.

Along the way, the CFZ computer got infected by something nasty, and I attempted to regain control. It was like trying to press down bubbles under wallpaper - the same problem would pop up elsewhere - so we eventually went for a reformat, and a fresh installation of Windows.

Part of a corridor ceiling fell in, and I was in familiar DIY territory, wielding a chisel to remove the remaining weak portions.

Jon's come up with a drastic and novel idea of having the CFZ tidy. The sorting out of stuff still proceeding, but we're getting there. I've coaxed the filing system into a fair state of rationality, and it's even possible that we'll one day be able to find things when we need them! Changes indeed.