11 days in Lagos

Well, Sorry for not updating. A LOT has happened since I got back to Lagos, and I'll try and explain all below, but that's the reason for the long delay in updating.

First, I'm engaged! I decided enough was enough and asked N... to marry me on Friday 24th February and she said yes, so there you go. I bought the ring earlier this year when I was in the UK, but unfortunately I'd got the size a little bit wrong so until I can get a competent jeweler to adjust it she has to wear it with a band-aid plaster on the inside to stop it sliding off. But that's a secret so don't tell anyone.

I have no idea about dates or anything yet, we will have to see how it goes, but it will be soon. I've heard of Nigerian/Expat weddings having to take place on three occasions, two in Nigeria, (a Traditional wedding and a White Wedding) and one in whatever home country of the Expatriate, I'm pretty sure that all sounds expensive so we'll have to work something out there. I'm sure it's only necessary to sign a registry somewhere in the world just once to be married.

I've taken a few pictures as requested by my family but they are all a bit rubbish, I'm hoping I can get some decent photos this week, otherwise I'll try and work on the photo's I've got and upload them to my flickr account later this week. N... is currently visiting her Aunt who lives in Ikorodu which is close to Lagos. So any new photos will need to wait till after she gets back.

So apart from that news which I was holding back from this blog until I was sure my family all knew. ( I didn't think they would want to find out from this page!), I've only really got Work Stuff to report about. I have not yet managed to get out and about with my camera as I hoped I would.

I've been working solo on the Second Phase software upgrade. I've developed a prototype web interface which was going great until I tried it out on a windows machine and all the measurements I made on my Linux laptop seem to be out on the windows machine by 2 or 3 pixels - Very frustrating! Even if I use Firefox 1.5.0.1 in Windows and Linux it shows up different. I suspect now this has something to do with the Fonts so I'm going to play with those over the next few days to see if I can tweak it to look the way it should. Otherwise I'll be adjusting everything again.

I installed Wireless networking at my V.I. house so that Dad, Mike and I can move around a bit with our laptops. I've repaired the server from our Project office, the hard disk had failed with the lovely 'click of death'. I set up a firewall box at the Project office so that the internet access the staff discovered was available via an Ethernet port on the wall of the office, could be shielded. Don't want people elsewhere in the building snooping around, and certainly don't want to expose our network to the wider internet directly. It seems the only internet access is coming through a transparent web proxy server somewhere and that no direct connections can be made anyway. This is good news for our protection from the internet but bad news for setting up email other than via a webmail interface. It also means my dream of setting up a VPN tunnel between our offices is going to be a little harder to achieve without a dedicated internet connection.

I'm looking into acquiring a WiMax Internet Connection, currently myNetCom are the ones I'm looking most closely at, but I've yet to see the system in action to know if it's any good.

That's it for now. Please post your messages below but be patient if your message does not appear promptly as I will continue to moderate all comments before they appear here due to some rather odd messages I have received from some peculiarly Stupid People who obviously can't understand my admittedly flawed version of English and seem to get the totally wrong idea about what I'm saying, probably because I use very long sentences like this and they get bored and make up their own endings.

But there we go, as to be expected with these blog things I guess.

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