We have a date. Jan 20th (so nearly a cool date - 20/1/2010, just missing that extra zero - but it's probably a bit much to ask Ali to hold on another 9 months just to get to 20/10/2010). 8am we're booked in for, clearly they weren't thinking about daddy when this booking was made. I'm glad it's early though; otherwise we'd sit and worry all day - ( Read more... )

Things have been finally coming good over the past week or so; Ali's choleostasis is under control, and we used the few days we got to ourselves to get the house knocked into shape for arrival of the baby. It felt like we'd turned a bit of a corner ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everybody ( Read more... )

Last week students of Shorecrest High School (Shoreline, WA) posted a video of their 'one-take' lip dub of Outkast's hit "Hey Ya"

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and then challenged their crosstown rival, Shorewood High School, to beat their video. Shorewood accepted the challenge and posted their 'one take' lip dub -- filmed in reverse -- to the Hall and Oates hit "You Make My ( Read more... )

Quite amazing. A school orchestra tackles Sprack Zarathrusra, perhaps better known as the theme to 2001:

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Well, I'm feeling marginally better. Ali has gone to stay with my parents; given the continued concern over her/the baby it seemed a good idea. Thankfully the bleeding seems to have stopped, which suggests it was just the being sick that caused it. She's still very under the weather, but Jess at least seems to have picked up. I took today off work ( Read more... )

Urgh. Whinge ahead, I'm afraid ( Read more... )

I am currently sat in the pub, trying to code for (amazingly) the first time in nearly 5 years. Where the hell did all that time go? At least I still have my programming head. I've also forgotten a lot of VB terminology, but VB was never my first language. The actual mechanics of putting the the program together are still there, pleasingly ( Read more... )