If you’ve been in the UK this past week or so, you’ll know how hot its been. In certain areas a heatwave has actually been declared. Being British, this isn’t good. We just can’t handle such heat. Or cold, for that matter. Being British means moaning about the weather, and that we’ll do, whilst drinking tea in the boiling hot sun. Or any weather, for that matter.

On Sunday it was just too warm to sleep – and I had school the next day. The servers obviously didn’t help, so in the 3 years of having servers, I actually had to shut them down (may I add; at 1.20AM), for several reasons. Number one; overheating. That would have been catastrophic however slightly unlikely. Number two; they throw heat out. Which isn’t what I want. Number three; the auxiliary fan on server2 is too noisy. When it kicks in, everyone knows (to be fair, as a computer, its really quiet, but you know, being British, I have to moan about it), so that was highly annoying. Number four; hourly backups. Hmm, strange one this one. Well no, its just the fact the ~4GB backup that takes place every hour and takes just under half an hour to complete causes 3 hard drives to spin continuously for that duration. When you’re trying to get to sleep, that doesn’t help.

I can’t cope well with the heat. Sun is good, but the heat gets unbearable. [/British rant]