Worst interview preparation ever?

Here's an exciting combination of circumstances leading up to an interview I have tomorrow:

• My kids have come home covered in nits
• I am recovering from gastroenteritis 
• Cat has just shat copiously on my interview suit

Can anyone beat that?

Why do I want Windows 8 to fail?

I catch myself going through forums and postings and checking all the reactions to Windows 8.  I can feel myself tightening up when I see positive postings about Windows 8: I want it to fail for some reason....but why?

Humble Bundle: for linux users the Vessel appears to be empty

Humble Bundle: for linux users the Vessel appears to be empty

I'm a great supporter of the Humble Indie Bundle which I think provides great value for money and  is currently one of the few ways to get some decent games which play under Linux.

I bought the 6th games bundle recently and my daughters were particularly excited about Vessel having watched the promo videos online.

At release date Vessel was not available for the linux platform but a notice on the humble site said that it would be released shortly.  That was now a month ago and still no Vessel.  There is an option on the site to allow you to mail them and they will mail back when the release is made but I feel this is a pretty long wait already.

I'm trying to be positive

My sister said to me the other day that I should be careful about posting negative sounding messages on here in the jobsearch chain: and she's probably right.  I doubt that many potential employers delve round these pages: but if even 1 is put off then that's 1 too many!

So,  OK,  I failed to get through a few interviews: so what am I up to that's not directly applying for jobs but is trying to keep my skills up?

Problems upgrading Xubuntu to 12.10

Problems upgrading Xubuntu to 12.10

I have a laptop which has been running Xubuntu 12.04 for some time.  Yesterday I decided to see what Xubuntu 12.10 brought to the table so I upgraded....and my problems started.

The start of the process was encouraging: it pulled the files down much faster than previous ubuntu family upgrades I have done in the past: despite the fact that it was only a day or so after the 12.10 version was released.