8 countries, 8 cars (including an M6 and a Z4 Alpina), and 1,750 miles.  Fletch will eventually lend his literary skills to writing something about it, but in the meantime here’s some photos:

You’ll be glad to know that the M5 didn’t skip a beat (even when Chris was driving…), apart from serious brake fade coming down the Stelvio, so that’s one AP BBK to add to the list when I eventually sort out a job and earn some money.

Can’t wait to do it again.

After finishing my contract up at CPW and spending two months over in Southern California I’m now back in Blighty and looking for work.  I’ve put my resume online (moving with the times eh) here.  If you know of any contract work for a Unix systems administrator of my calibre (heh) - anywhere in England - drop me an email.

I seem to have been plagued by a terrible affliction over the past few days - bad-filmitis.  I’ve had the displeasure of watching three of the worst films I’ve ever seen in a very short space of time.

• How to Rob a Bank (2007) I watched this on the train down from LA to San Diego.  I nearly turned it off a few times as the lunch the guy next to me was eating was more interesting, but stuck it out as the film’s single saving grace - Erika Christensen - is so hot.  The story is fucking stupid, the acting is utterly atrocious, it’s stylish in an overly annoying way, and it’s predictable in the extreme.
   
• Salem’s Lot (1979) This was picked as a laugh (most of the old Stephen King films are amusing) to watch on a projector in someone’s backyard here in SD.  I could have sworn up and down that I’d seen this, but it turned out I hadn’t or at least not this particular version.  It’s long as fuck (3 hours), and just outright boring as a result.
   
• Mission to Mars (2000) I’m a sucker for sci-fi and I hadn’t actually seen this before, so when it was on TV last night I decided to watch.  It came out long ago enough for the bad reviews I’d seen at the time to be forgotten, and anyway everyone slagged off Event Horizon but I still enjoyed it.  This wasn’t the case here though.  Despite having a pretty awesome cast the acting was either weirdly hammy or just pathetic, the soundtrack was fucking bizarre in an annoying way, and the story was just plain stupid.

I might avoid TV for a while.

I’ve just upgraded all ports (i.e software) on fork.freebsd.cx and its associated jails (services.freebsd.cx and users.freebsd.cx).  Most people’s sites are associated with the latter, although the former affects mail.  If anything is broke, let me know.