For those who aren’t already sick of hearing me talk about it, I bought (or rather, my dad bought) this (photo behind the link):

2001 Seat Toledo V5

I’ve recently become involved, to some extent, with the Pyroom project. As Bruno Bord  reports, he’s put together a .tgz of the 0.1 release and made it available at pyroom.org.

I’ve never been properly involved with an OSS project before,
and so far this has been a very positive first experience for me. I’ve not done that much - fixed a couple of bugs, submitted or triaged some and been involved in discussions in the IRC channel (#pyroom on freenode) and the wiki, but I’ve felt very much welcomed and my input has been received with plenty of appreciation.

I even got away with admitting that I’m now a KDE user without being tarred and feathered.

We’re implementing a new reports system using MS Reporting Services. Today I spent several hours struggling with the following problem: when you enter a value for a datetime parameter, RS validates the input before trying to run the report. I found that it refused to validate a G.B.-format date (dd/mm/yyyy). It appeared to be trying to use a U.S. format (mm/dd/yyyy).

After an entire afternoon of Googling with nothing to show for it, I finally found the problem: when validating parameters, the web interface looks at the browser’s regional setting, rather than the locale specified in the report or on the server. If you’re using Opera (as I do, though I don’t recommend it in this instance as the RS web interface only works properly with I.E.), chances are that your browser has defaulted to U.S. English. Changing this to British English fixes the problem.

…so, as usual, I started another blog.

One more thing to mention: pyroom