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I dug up my ancient Toshiba Portege 3480CT laptop, and installed Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 on it by connecting the hard to my desktop PC (as the laptop doesn’t have a CD or DVD drive). Then I found that the wireless card I had, a Cisco Aironet 350, doesn’t support WPA. After trying and failing to get a Belkin card to work at all, I tried the Linksys WPC54GS-UK. With some help from the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki, which I’ve summarised in a new wiki page, the card works perfectly and I now have web access all around the house instead of having to go and sit in the study.

As I was walking towards the bus stop at Canary Wharf on my way home this evening, I saw a couple of police motorcycle outriders block the street off and a few limos pull up. I went to have a look, and saw Romano Prodi get out of a car and walk into the Reuters building, but I wasn’t quick enough to get a photo. Canary Wharf celebrity spotting - not as exciting as West End celebrity spotting!

I’ve been on the following Metros (plus possibly some others that I don’t remember):