Is now starting to shake his head for no! :)
I went to visit him while Jude was in hospital, and he was shaking his head when Jen said no.. :) Very cute.
Poor little man had to have a Hep A shot this morning, so his little thigh is all sore.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Reading...
Amongst other things recently, I've had a chance to read while on the train. Normally I'd be spending most of the 2 hours a day on the train studying (technology, or Uni stuff), or listening to podcasts.
I read a couple of books, Seven Ancient Wonders, and Hover Car Racer. Both books by Matthew Riley, and both are really good fun reading. I will warn everyone now, dont read these books if you are after a literary epipaphany(sp?), but they are just good fun reading. Especially the fact that the guy is an Aussie, and therefore a lot of his references are so very australian. On this Australia Day, let me just say, go Matthew Riley.
Go out and read it, don't be too hard on the guy, just read them as pure escapism, and you will enjoy the pace at which his books move.
I read a couple of books, Seven Ancient Wonders, and Hover Car Racer. Both books by Matthew Riley, and both are really good fun reading. I will warn everyone now, dont read these books if you are after a literary epipaphany(sp?), but they are just good fun reading. Especially the fact that the guy is an Aussie, and therefore a lot of his references are so very australian. On this Australia Day, let me just say, go Matthew Riley.
Go out and read it, don't be too hard on the guy, just read them as pure escapism, and you will enjoy the pace at which his books move.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Bad News...
Poor little Jude.
Now all of the recent sickness is explained, due to the fact that he has Leukaemia. Probably the worst day of my life, and no doubt of Rach's. He has ALL, which is the most common form of the cancer, and he has an excellent prognosis (around 90% of his age group go into full remission). A more detailed explanation is available here.
Jude is a little trooper, he just wants to go home, and have the canula in his arm removed, although he's getting used to it now. He had a terrible night's sleep on the first night, as they were giving him a blood transfusion. He managed to get a few good hours last night, after Rach came home for a couple of hours rest, and went back in about 2:30 this morning.
I'm heading in to hospital shortly too.
Now all of the recent sickness is explained, due to the fact that he has Leukaemia. Probably the worst day of my life, and no doubt of Rach's. He has ALL, which is the most common form of the cancer, and he has an excellent prognosis (around 90% of his age group go into full remission). A more detailed explanation is available here.
Jude is a little trooper, he just wants to go home, and have the canula in his arm removed, although he's getting used to it now. He had a terrible night's sleep on the first night, as they were giving him a blood transfusion. He managed to get a few good hours last night, after Rach came home for a couple of hours rest, and went back in about 2:30 this morning.
I'm heading in to hospital shortly too.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Sickies Lamb...
Poor little man.. he's been a sickies, had a 40.8 degree temperature.. so he's on the antibiotics too.
I've got a photo to upload of him at puffing billy too.
I've got a photo to upload of him at puffing billy too.
Browsers
Ok.. I spend all of my working life working on browsers, now - unfortunately, its a given that most of the time we work on IE. Most companies that I work with use IE as the SOE browser, and as the obvious market leader, it's the most used in the Internet (as opposed to a company Intranet site).
I've played with a few browsers over my time, but have not really used much other than IE in anger. Just recently, I have been sussing out other browsers, and have got a few thoughts:
Avant Browser:
Really interesting browser - it's essentially a skin for IE, but gives you really nice add ons like tabbed browsing and popup blocker. I reckon it's pretty good - although it doesn't show the javascript errors like IE does. I also found that it just chews through the memory - it stays in the task bar. This is not too bad, but it sometimes just goes awol. Totally unrecoverable. Very frustrating, because I want to love it. Also has 3rd party password manager.
Opera:
I had used this a few years ago, I think it was around 7/7.5, but recently heard they had started making moneyt from the mobile phone version of their browser - so had decided to release 8 without ads. This was enough for me to try it again. I really really like this browser, although there are a few frustrations: No plugins being the main one. Oh, and it doesn't really work that well with the Blogger.com edit window.
Mozilla Firefox:
I had previously been turned off version 1.0 of this browser, because a number of my colleagues (Peter!) had been so rabidly in support of it. I installed it when it went to 1.5, and I'm really glad that I did. Excellent range of extensions and plugins (StumbleUpon, Bit Torrent, LinkedIn and my fave, Performancing). Performancing gives you pretty much full blogger support in the browser. Really really good. Only gripe is that you cant seem to backdate posts.
FF seems to be getting a bit of traction, latest indications are that it's up to 15-20% of the overall market, but I think it's probably higher in those 'hard-core' of users who are serious web browser users, and that most 'mom and pop' users will still use IE (why download something that I already have out of the box).
I really want to love Avant, but it's freezing up irritates me, I like Opera, but it lacks penetration, so is much less supported, so I guess it's between IE and FF - No competition really, FF wins this battle hands down.
I've played with a few browsers over my time, but have not really used much other than IE in anger. Just recently, I have been sussing out other browsers, and have got a few thoughts:
Avant Browser:
Really interesting browser - it's essentially a skin for IE, but gives you really nice add ons like tabbed browsing and popup blocker. I reckon it's pretty good - although it doesn't show the javascript errors like IE does. I also found that it just chews through the memory - it stays in the task bar. This is not too bad, but it sometimes just goes awol. Totally unrecoverable. Very frustrating, because I want to love it. Also has 3rd party password manager.
Opera:
I had used this a few years ago, I think it was around 7/7.5, but recently heard they had started making moneyt from the mobile phone version of their browser - so had decided to release 8 without ads. This was enough for me to try it again. I really really like this browser, although there are a few frustrations: No plugins being the main one. Oh, and it doesn't really work that well with the Blogger.com edit window.
Mozilla Firefox:
I had previously been turned off version 1.0 of this browser, because a number of my colleagues (Peter!) had been so rabidly in support of it. I installed it when it went to 1.5, and I'm really glad that I did. Excellent range of extensions and plugins (StumbleUpon, Bit Torrent, LinkedIn and my fave, Performancing). Performancing gives you pretty much full blogger support in the browser. Really really good. Only gripe is that you cant seem to backdate posts.
FF seems to be getting a bit of traction, latest indications are that it's up to 15-20% of the overall market, but I think it's probably higher in those 'hard-core' of users who are serious web browser users, and that most 'mom and pop' users will still use IE (why download something that I already have out of the box).
I really want to love Avant, but it's freezing up irritates me, I like Opera, but it lacks penetration, so is much less supported, so I guess it's between IE and FF - No competition really, FF wins this battle hands down.
First Tooth
Jack has his first tooth coming through. Such a cute little guy. He was chewing on my thumb, and I felt a sharp bit. :)
He has been pretty sick too, he's on the amoxycilin now.
He has been pretty sick too, he's on the amoxycilin now.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Coffee
Coffee is a pretty important part of my diet - I'm a creature of habit - so having my favourite coffee shop has been a bit of a shock to the system. I'd hoped that they were open today, but no such luck! :( Hopefully next Monday.
I have to make sure that I dont go to the same place I went to this morning - it was terrible. Hudsons looks like the go to me.
I have to make sure that I dont go to the same place I went to this morning - it was terrible. Hudsons looks like the go to me.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Certifiable!
Righto - I've booked my SCJP programmers course for 6th/7th Feb. I'll be finishing out on site on 20th Jan, so that should give me a good couple of weeks to bone up on the exam. I'm pretty comfortable that I'll pass it! :)
After that i'll be starting on the RAD programmers cert, interestingly enough, the recommended reading is 1400 pages. Thanks IBM.
After that i'll be starting on the RAD programmers cert, interestingly enough, the recommended reading is 1400 pages. Thanks IBM.
Top 50 singles of this year
My god, it was a pretty shocking year for music really. I cant find an e-version of the list, but I assure you it was full of shit songs.
NYE
Had a great night at Mike and Kylie's place - but bloody hell it was hot! Rach decided to stay home and look after the boys, I think she was going to look after her cousins too, but I dont think they came over.
She's still 'resting' at the moment, nursing a sore head!
I will take a pic of the drawing they did on the wall in chalk too! :)
p.s - Posting this from 'Performancing' plugin for Mozilla Firefox. I finally cracked it with Avant browser, so I'm off the IE bandwagon until version 7 comes out with tabbed browsing.
She's still 'resting' at the moment, nursing a sore head!
I will take a pic of the drawing they did on the wall in chalk too! :)
p.s - Posting this from 'Performancing' plugin for Mozilla Firefox. I finally cracked it with Avant browser, so I'm off the IE bandwagon until version 7 comes out with tabbed browsing.
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