fordie’s Blog

We took Erin back to hospital Today so that that the paediatrician could give her the once over and make sure that the faint heart murmur that they heard yesterday was nothing to worry about. She was checked over by two doctors; the junior doctor said she thought she could maybe hear something very feint, [...]

Well we made it home. At about half three this afternoon the latest addition to the family arrived in the house. Laura & Erin Very nearly had to stay an extra night in hospital, because Erin has a faint heart murmur. Fortunately we where able to talk the doctor into letting us go home, we’ve [...]

After a long hard slog Erin Mae Ford finally put in an appearance at 02.22 today. Weighing 8lb 1. I meant to post lots of pictures, but I’ve bought the wrong lead for the camera with me. Here’s two I took with the phone. I’ll post more when I get home.

I was looking the stats for this site earlier and saw that someone had come here having searched for “dreamweaver 8 ftp password registry”. I can’t be certain, but I suspect who ever it was had lost or forgotten their FTP password and was hoping to recover it from Dreamweaver. I was in the same [...]

So, this morning was Laura’s 41 week check with the midwife. She’s now booked in to be induced on Monday.  We’re still hoping baby will make an appearance before then.

I have been waiting for this book to come out for months. Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke could be the book of the year for web designers. I have to admit, I am a big fan of Clarke’s. I found his blog a couple of years ago and was [...]

Just back from the midwife’s, everything continues to be fine. So it’s just a waiting game still. Laura’s cooked Chilli for dinner, I think the plan is to have a curry Tommorow (that’ll be the third in a week); she’s also got the reflexology appointment booked. So here’s hoping something happens soon.

At the moment I’m using google analytics, which is frankly overkill; plus it doesn’t tell me things like how many comments I’ve had in a given period. I’m also trying performancing.com’s metrics which do have more relevant reports for blogs but (and this is very irritating) you can’t change it to display in your local [...]

Today is D-day, the baby is now officially “due” to arrive. Given the false starts we’ve had over the last couple of weeks (Laura’s had a few bouts of contractions lasting a few hours and then just stopping) neither Laura or I expected to still be waiting today. Still here we are. Laura has a [...]

Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” With Photosynth you can: Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle. Seamlessly zoom in [...]