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D-day
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… Read note →
Microsoft launch Photosynth
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… Read note →
Make Windows XP look nicer
If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look does get quite boring after a while, so for the last year or so I have had the Royale themeinstalled on both my… Read note →
Baby update – 38 week check
Today’s Midwife appointment was pretty uneventful. The results from Laura’s Glucose & Iron tests where fine; baby’s heart rate is fine. It’s lying in the correct position, so that’s fine too :o) Laura is extremely uncomfortable and pretty fed up now and I can’t say I blame her. We are both just looking forward to… Read note →
How to create or edit a Firefox quick search
I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be provided by dictionary.reference.com but for some reason in the last couple of versions it’s been the Merriam-Webster website. I just don’t think the… Read note →
Dreamweaver 8 losing FTP login settings
Recently I’ve been having a frustrating time using Dreamweaver’s FTP client. For some reason, it kept losing the FTP user name and password whenever I restarted dreamweaver, and it seems I was not alone. It appears that the problem was caused by a conflict between the version of Dreamweaver I was running and IE7. Downloading… Read note →
Internet Explorer Seven has arrived
IE 7 is finaly out. Do yourself a favour, go to the Microsoft site and download it Today. It’s just so much nicer to use than previous versions and it’s supposed to be more secure too. Read note →
Baby update
We’ve been for the 36 week check today. The midwife seems happy with everything so that’s all good; Laura has got to go for a blood sugar level test next week as the dipstick showed slightly raised levels of glucose. We’re not overly concerned about that though because she had the same thing with Isla.… Read note →
A whole batch of good new stuff – Part 2: Web Sites
I read the other week that the average person in Western Europe now spends four hours a week online; I think this must make me special, I’ve just done some quick maths and I’m certain that I spend over thirty hours a week online. Admittedly a lot of that is for work (working on customer… Read note →
No baby Today – or at least not so far
By the time we got to the hospital the contractions had all stopped; Laura was put on a monitor for nearly an hour and had a few other checks with midwife and a doctor. Everything seems fine at the moment, we don’t know what caused the contractions to start (or stop again for that matter)… Read note →