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I’ve just nipped back home after spending the day with Claire at the hospital and I’m afraid there is still no major news!

The unit ended up being really busy overnight so Claire didn’t get her second dose of Prostaglandin until 11:30. This bought on contractions every 5 minutes or so after a while and these were still going on when I left at 17:45 to grab some dinner. Claire is getting checked again at 19:00 and at that point they’ll decide whether to break her waters (in which case I’ll be off back to the hospital) or whether they’ll just give another dose of Prostaglandin in which case I’ll probably be waiting for a phonecall. Fingers crossed things will get underway tonight though!

Update

They couldn’t break her waters so Claire has had another dose of the Prostaglandin. Hopefully that’ll really get things moving, even if it does mean a phonecall in the early hours of the morning

I’ve just left Claire at the hospital, though I’m afraid there is no exciting news yet Claire has been assessed, the baby was monitored for a while and the first lot of Prostaglandin applied. Claire noticed some increased contractions but nothing spectacular so after a walk around Claire headed off to bed and I came home to get some sleep.

Claire will get another dose of the Prostaglandin around 06:00 tomorrow and another 6 hours after that if nothing happens. I’m heading back up at 10:00 to keep her company. I’ll update the blog with info if anything happens and when I next get a chance

I’ve recently being trying to get my part in the mail hubs finished before heading off on paternity leave for a month. I had great fun today trying to get Mailscanner and Sophos syslogging properly. I’d installed all the software, stoked it up and found that though it was running nothing was getting logged. After checking sysylog.conf and running logger it seemed that the problem was with the perl Sys::Syslog module. After much fiddling around I upgraded it to 0.18 from 0.13 and Sophos started logging, which was great. Fired up MailScanner again but still no logs

I decided it was time to delve into the logging code for MailScanner and I noticed that if the OS was detected as Solaris it set the logging mode to udp. This won’t work on our Solaris 10 zones so I altered the code to use native mode. Fired it up again and it worked! I always seem to have to fiddle with MailScanner to get it to log properly, so I’m making a note of what I got up to here so it’s easier in a years time when I have to fiddle again

Just a quick post to say Claire now has her own site and blog. She’s mainly going to be using it for baby related news and means people can get gossip direct rather than second hand from me

Partly prompted by getting a shiny new TomTom bluetooth GPS recently, I thought I’d fire up Wififofum on the way home to see what it found. It’s been about a year since I last did this and plotted the data and it was fairly interesting to see the difference. There are a *lot* more access points out there today, and more now have WEP turned on. Shipping them secure by default must be helping Of course the ones with WEP turned off may be using some other security, but if the SSID is default I’d guess not

Last time I did this I plotted the results using google maps. My code seemed to have broken over the last year so I decided to try the Microsoft Live mapping api. I was pleasently suprised to find it much easier to use than the Google one, and it seems to render the maps quicker as well I’ve also done things properly this time and uploaded the data into a database and made it easier to import data. The prod-development AP with no WEP outside of the Hornby factory might be interesting

The map is here for the interested.