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When I bought my new car, one of the things I intended was to start using Biodiesel in it, for several reasons, one that it is slightly cheaper than regular diesels, another is that it makes me feel a little less guilty about my long drive to work and back especially with regards to the environment.

So when I filled up last week I went to GreenGold Biodiesel in Manchester and filled up on a 5% Blend. After a few days of running in the new car, it seemed to suffer no ill effects, so today I decided to join the Manchester Biodiesel co-op, which now allows me to buy 100% Biodiesel from them. As per their advice though I am not going to start using 100% Biodiesel, I think I will start with maybe a 30% blend and work towards a 50%. The car being a 1999 Passat TDI I think is quite good with Biodiesel, so I think I might eventually go 100%.
The garage also sells some lovley organic snacks and stuff, so thats an incentive to go in too!

Just had my 1st day in my new job as the Technical Architecture Manager for Matalan, as with all 1st days in new job’s there was a lot to take in, and I know I will be in learning mode for a good few weeks yet.

Other than that it’s been really good, the people are nice. The infrastructure there looks reasonable, though there are a lot of servers, but thats due to porley written Windows apps. There are a bunch of cool things coming up that I am looking forward to getting involved in, such as a virtualisation trial, move of some apps from DGUX to HPUX & Solaris and an upgrade of the SUSE Retail Linux till systems.

In sad news, I am reeling from the loss of my Thinkpad. Looks like I will have to save up, I need a laptop and nothing other than a Thinkpad will do

I think I have just lost my WordPress backup, thought I did a propper backup but don’t think I did!