Cheap Therapy

• A relaxing weekend in Mandurah
• Planning an interstate trip
• Wrangling FileMaker, MySQL, PHP, qpopper and postfix.
• Bilby getting much more talkative. Many more words and signs (miming juicing an orange to indicate she wanted OJ!) Long involved soliloquies, if only I could understand what she was actually saying…
• Colds all round Mounds of tissues
• Car serviced.
• Got a call from my ISP claiming I was DoSing someone. Oops (No, it was not a virus)
• Most excellent engagement party with many good friends.
• Baked a Jaffa Marble Cake and a vegan Apple and Almond cake (I was out of walnuts).
• Got a ladder for my birthday. Used it to clean the gutters.
• Got many birthday wishes from people, thankyou, it meant a lot.
• Had a close friend ring up on my birthday to ask me how to send a break from telnet. This was good for the amusement value of him forgetting my birthday at least.
• Watered trace elements into the plants.
• Saw Da Vinci’s machines. Had forgotten how much of it was weapons research.
• Indian buffet.
• Saw Dr. Jones.
• Read Moondust.

• Software goes live. Nobody dies. Yay!
• MacGeeks at Agni. Mmm.. Curry.
• iPhone SDK amongst other things
• More busage plus walking. More weight loss.
• Lay my hands on an OLPC XO
• Finish Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe
• Mum’s birthday, book club.
• Music night, we have a band (of sorts :). Violin, guitar, and whatever else Bilby and Puggle pick up.
• Take Bilby shopping for the first time although she’s too tired to enjoy it.
• Bilby takes a fall She seems less fazed by it than I am.
• Jamie’s Sausages and 1kg of cherry tomatoes, followed by another mulberry pie thanks to our tree. Now if only the mango tree was as productive!
• Looking forward to the dentist on Monday

Spotted in the past few days:”I have root @ Google” ”I google myself regularly” 

• An extra 50 minutes of walking as a result of getting off the bus at earlier stops. Yay for exercise!
• MacGeeks dinner at Tsunami
• Sorry day, and Rudd further restoring my pride in being Australian.
• Valentines day (ignored, with apologies to greeting card, flower and chocolate companies)
• A summons to the GP as a result of the cholesterol test.
• Watching Bilby walk around the house without assistance, even carrying things when she’s asked to tidy up after Puggle
• Pushing the swing for Bilby and Puggle and friends. Need to find some way to bolt it to the ground better, they’re all getting heavier.
• Taming of the Puggle (well, more attempts thereof)
• Dinner with the workmates (anchovies, anchovy oil and caramelised onion makes a great pizza if you like anchovies).
• Crossing minor achievable tasks off the list (dug up the fig for a refund, updated car rego and parking stickers)
• Dinner with Skip

• Cleared some tree bits off the roof
• Upgraded the network so St. Isidore now has to bless packets 10 times faster
• Kept Puggle and Bilby occupied
• Enjoyed the cool breeze
• Scanned some of the paper mountain

Left to do today

• Fix reticulation
• Dig more trampoline hole
• Minor shopping

• Work bits
• The all important drinks.
• Nachos
• Movies
• Printer unbreaking
• Grocery shopping
• Outlook
• Poker (Lost. Gotta work on that know when to hold ‘em/fold ‘em thing)
• Sleep
• Going home
• Random office tidyup
• Router configuration
• Boy time
• Girl time
• Dinner

I’ve got the piles of junk, now all I need is the 3×30″ Cinema Displays. Here’s the JoyOfTech take on it.

I figure that a few of you out there might be interested in Unshelved, a comic about librarians. Or in this case, librarians and computers.

An amusing comic from JoyOfTech for all the wii fans out there.

Since I know some avid readers of this blog have purchased SleepTracker watches to wake up more easily, and there was some discussion of using the iSight built into Power/MacBooks to do the same, I just discovered Dream Recorder on VersionTracker. Not sure how it handles two people in the same bed though, I guess you just have to aim the camera carefully.

Let me know if it works (or broadcasts pictures of your bedroom over the internet