Went in to Marcus’ bedroom to check on him after he went quiet.

He was asleep, but…

STOP! This is important…

No dinosaur karaoke permitted!

I still haven’t found a single tool I can use to maintain my blog, Facebook and Twitter.  Hell, even a single tool which let me update Twitter and Facebook (optionally) at the same time would be cool.

Marcus started school today.  I’m pretty sure we were more wigged out about it than he was.  He had a few confusing moments because he didn’t fully understand a few things, but it’ll get better.

I have a cunning plan.  My last cunning plan required rebuilding a PC. This one could very well require building a PC.  We’ll see how the planning goes.

Gardening is a lot of hard work.  But satisfying.

I’m sad, but not surprised, that my 5 year old MP3 player can’t cope with an MP3 that is 700MB (9 hours) long.

I’m on day 2 of my holiday.  I’ve already been bugged by work 5 times.  2 phone calls, 1 TXT and 2 “incredibly urgent” emails.  And that doesn’t even include the emails that need my attention and if do ignore them until next week, will probably cause me more headaches that it’s worth. 
Doesn’t help that the only other guy on my team that could possibly do some of what I do is currently skiing in Canada. 

I’m a little miffed that Windows 7 can’t access my MP3 player the same way previous versions did.  Sure, it shows up as a removable drive, and I can view the files, delete files and create new folders.  But if I try to copy new music onto it, I get a “Permission denied” error.
I can sync it just fine using Media Player though, so it’s not a real biggie.

Auckland SQL – February meeting.  Need to plan it.  Tomorrow; Thursday at the latest. (PS:  If you want to come talk, please let me know)

Using Windows 7 with a widescreen laptop?  My tip for the day.  Put the “start/task bar” on the side.  You get 40 pixels of vertical real estate back, and the new style bar makes it totally usable.

Need to spend some quality time with the aquarium.  It’s been neglected the past couple of months.  Will get some new plants and try and find new stock to replenish those who have passed on.

IE8 in Win7 beta has a serious problem with remembering cookies.  Serious problem...

I've just received confirmation I've got two high-spec Windows 2003-R2 servers with IIS and SQL (2005) sitting doing nothing. 

These boxes are accessible on port 80 and 443; are on 3 x 10mbit connections with theoretically no data caps

They are fully paid up for the next 36 months.

I need to find a use for them...

Remember this?

Look what we found last week…

I just finished editing/processing one the recording of one of the TV shows that Marcus likes. 

I captured it back in December.

Marcus and I went to the zoo today.

 

No! You've had yours. This is mine.

My wife telling our son that he can't have any of the chocolate topping from her ice-cream. (his even had hundreds-&-thousands on it)

It's little things like this that make me glad to be a dad (in the sense I'm glad he's here, not that it's my wife getting all the attention at present).

A friend of ours is a volunteer/foster home for a stray cat organization called Lonely Miaow.

They held an "Adopt-a-thon" today.

We'd promised Marcus, ourselves, and our friends we'd get a cat when we were ready... Turns out today was that day.

Introducing Cally. She's 16 weeks old.

 
I'm getting a kitty!

Silly daddy. She's not a fish.

We're going to my home now

Your toys are now my objects of destruction...

Hello. My name is Cally.

Your cat toys are no match for me. Where is something challenging.

...but the years are short.

 A friend sent me this link tonight.

Damnit.  I'm a man.  I shouldn't get misty eyed over simple words, pictures and a piano track