So fresh from getting my website fixed, my broadband connection went down on Sunday morning. It came back up Monday night - about 36 hours later.

See when I decided upon the company to use for broadband, I went with a small local company. And that company shut down over the Easter break. No 24/7 technical support. And nobody checking the ol' answering machine either, apparently.

So I used my parents' dial-up connection, only to find that it lets me open some websites, but not others. For example, I couldn't open www.microsoft.com. But I could get www.google.com. Potentially I was restricted to content hosted in Australia, but that's speculation - it's actually hard to tell where the content is physically located (I'm guessing Google has mirrored servers all over the shop).

So yeah, pretty sure I've done all the coding for v1.0, but just like everybody else - I can't use TS unless I've got a connection to the Internet. And my website was one of those that I couldn't connect to. So no testing was possible, so it wasn't released this Easter weekend as I'd hoped. Not that I'd told anyone it was going to be out this weekend, but that was the plan. Anyway...

What I did do was spend some time on the documentation. I've got an installation/upgrading/removal guide and a user manual underway. But, if there is something more boring than writing documentation, I'm not sure what that would be. (I don't think there's any problem if a future employer reads that, because I'm fairly sure it's a wide-held belief).

Actually I do know - more boring than writing documentation for your own software, is writing documentation for someone else's. I know, because that's part of my current contract :-)