Peter’s Hospital Diary

Where did the week go? After last week’s more prolific blogging, this week has been quiet. However, while it has been quiet I have been reasonably busy. On the one hand, Felicity is organising a repeat of last year’s wedding fair, so my IT skills (10 have been put to use, and on the other, I have been looking at a new IT project, following on from some problems we had with E mail a couple of weeks ago. For a bit of background, my mail service provided by my domain name provider, and is separate from that of my Internet provider – the advantage of that is if I change ISP, my e mail address remains the same. However there have been problems recently, and so I have been looking at setting up my own mailserver, in much the same way that I have my own webserver. However it is a liitle more complex, as there are several components that need to work together, and security plays a big part – both to protect against the mailserver being used by spammers, and also in ensuring that mail isn’t lost. I have been doing some experiments, and got bits of it working – I am relaying mail through one machine, but only from the internal network. Next stage is to look at receiving mail centrally for distribution, rather than each mail client on each machine contacting the remote mailboxes individually. So there has been quite a lot of research into the best way of doing things.

Olivia has been over, but the poor little mite has had conjunctivitis – each photo I took had her with runny eyes, so I haven’t published any. Katie also came home on Wednesday and Rachael has had a friend staying, so it has been busy!

I was delighted to hear from Simon again – doing well on his two weeks off from Chemo and over half way through the course – O&U! However I haven’t heard any more from John or his family, so he may still be in ‘Heath Towers’. Fingers and other digits crossed for you John, when you get round to reading this!

So a mixed bag – but all part of ‘getting my life back’!

Onwards and Upwards!