Posts Tagged ‘louise’

Tweet on!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

So, I’ve been wondering about Twitter and was going to wait until the fourth anniversary of this blog to sign up in some bizarre attempt to mark the occasion… and then Louise’s friend invites her to sign up and there was no way that I was going to let Louise beat me to the punch on that one, so we sat there and signed up together.

So — and incidentally I don’t think I’ve started enough clauses in this post with the word “so” so far — now you can follow me and also Louise in (potentially) tedious detail. Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the concept of micro-blogging. There are so many small, ephemeral thoughts I’d like to inflict on share with friends and family that never get as far as this blog.

Now my only issues are whether I should actually be publishing on indenti.ca and what picture to use on my profile.

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Proper snow

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

For those of you in for’n parts who might not know better, today it snowed properly across large parts of old Blighty. This lead to an abortive attempt to get into work, which in turn forced me to work out how to set up a VPN connection to our corporate network on my home Ubuntu box (easy enough) and how to remote desktop into our servers (even easier).

Later, we played with the kids in the snow and Louise got out her family heirloom Swiss sledge. Ben fell off once but no bones were broken. I got to play with my new (and awesome) Nikon 18-200 VR lense. I’ll upload the pictures to Flickr when I get a chance but I’m building up a backlog of techy items to get done (get with the cool kids on Twitter, upgrade blog software, install anti-spam plugin on blog, install Twitter plugin on blog, fix up tags and categories on blog, move neworbit.org domain and email hosting, move blog hosting…) so I don’t know when that might be. Then again, here’s me wittering on about rubbish instead of tackling said list, so clearly I’m on the lookout for displacement activities.

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Sleep extended

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Louise and I both believe that one of the most important things you can teach your children is to be self reliant. To this end we work hard to teach both Ben and Jessica skills like getting dressed by themselves and getting their own breakfast.

Now, this is not the easiest course of action and often enough backfires. You’ll come down in the morning to find the fridge door wide open with a pool of milk on the floor next to it. Just yesterday Jessica got dressed on her own initiative but used one of her tops as a skirt.

However, it does pay off in the long run. Just a year ago the average time I’d get up on a weekend was 7am. This morning the children still got up at 7am but when I rolled out of bed at 8am they’d been playing nicely together (modulo one screaming argument which they resolved without our help) and had already eaten their breakfast together.

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Going back to the start

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

So, I missed the H2G2 reference. Minus 5 Geek Points to me. I was only about 14 when I read it, so I’ll go with the “half a lifetime ago” excuse.

However, this has crystallised an idea that’s been floating around in my head for the last couple of weeks: I should go back and re-read some of the books I read when I was a teenager that sparked my interest in sci-fi and fantasy. Louise has recently read Neuromancer, which is where the idea started; pt’s rebuke settles the matter.

Some of the “classics” I’ve re-read fairly recently. Foundation, Magician and The Lord of the Rings spring to mind. This leaves the likes of Neuromancer, Lensman, Ringworld, The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Colour of Magic.

Your turn: What are you going to re-read?

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