Woohoo! My wife has passed her PLAB 2 examinations! She got the results yesterday, and I (and so many other people) are immensely proud of her. She was terrified of getting the results, not knowing what to expect. But she has excelled beyond all expectations. Many congrats to her!
After finally getting over the exam stress we went out to celebrate, she also got to do some pseudo-shopping, aka window-shopping, aka ‘we didn’t buy anything’. It was still a good day out despite the unappealing weather today.
The 5-day weather forecast that I used to get from InterceptVector has been down for so many days now. I hope the problem is fixed soon as I spent a while writing my parser for it 
In any case at least I anticipated problems and so the site nicely changes over to another weather feed whenever there is a problem. Cool.
I’m going to change the stupid ‘kerneljack.com’ image heading soon to something more tasteful. As a side note I’ve installed the new Mandrake Linux 9.1 on one machine at home and it is quite impressive how far linux has come, but, as always it still has a little bit more to go. Mandrake is quite usable for normal users, though a little bit of learning may be needed. Unlike previous distros, it detected my printer, and digital camera flawlessly. Impressive. I’m also hearing great things about Suse 8.2 and will try it sometime. I still really like Debian, Gentoo, LFS, and all the other roll-your-own distros though. I’m still going to use debian for any server-based distro and probably for some desktops. That’s whats great about linux: choice.
I’m also using IV for the weather on my site. I saw that you found a backup? Can you pls tell me more.
Thanks,
Mike
I’m using PHPWeather as the backup. It gets weather information from airports nearby, just like WindowMaker’s wmWeather dockapp. It is not a 5-day forecast unfortunately, just updated to within the last hour or so. But for the purposes of my site, I just needed a weather display at the most basic so it didn’t have to be a 5-day forecast.
Take a look at my software page for an example of how I configured my IV parser to drop down to PHPWeather in case of problems. It’s a simple ‘if’ statement.