Rob's Ego Trip!

Terrible.

Spent today setting up a CVS tree for M3. So far so good. It's looking like it may all work. As M3 is an incremental improvement on M2, we are keeping the Fusebox framework for this version. This is mainly because I want to improve the data storage system and core data access functions. I can't change too much in one go as it'll take too long to learn and iron the bugs out. Maybe for M4 we'll sort out the framework.

Anyway, the skeleton that I've created so far seems to be working. I need to sort out all the general library stuff that we use such as Smarty, Auth Suite, ADOdb, mimemessage for email etc. Something to do tomorrow :)

Have been working on M3 today. This is our super duper new CMS system that's building on the solid rock of M2, our current system. It all looks so clean on paper and I have every confidence that it will speed up our site builds too. I quite like the process of planning how it's all going to work; it's the nitty gritty of getting it done that's a pain!

Friends of ours have just given birth to a beautiful little boy whom they've called Benjamin. He was born last Tuesday whilst we were on holiday and we haven't seen him yet as I'm waiting for Ben's, Jon's and my cold to go away.

It was warm and sunny there; it's cold here.

Hot weather for a week :)

You have to ask if Windows and Microsoft software in general is fundamentally insecure. They have just announced that viewing an image can cause a virus to be installed on your computer! Deary me! A picture should never ever be executed! A picture should never ever cause any problems!

So here we are in 2004 after a good couple of years of Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative, and it's dangerous to look at images on the web using Internet Explorer. I'm not sure I'd trust them with a tin opener and a can of beans...

Scary stuff though. Better keep that antivirus software up to date.

We now have ADSL! I just plugged in the router this morning and it worked. No engineering visit required or anything!

Ahhh.... this is more like it!

The next version of the Firefox web browser is out and very nice it looks too.

We had a builder come around today to look at the plans for the extension. He's gone away and will come back with a quote and an estimate on how long it will take. I tried to contact another builder too, but he was in Malta and came back this weekend. I left a message on his answerphone and will call him tomorrow to try and get him to quote too.

I hope the quote is affordable!

Georgina and I have just drunk a rather nice bottle of Argentinian red wine :)

Still got a cough though :(

I have now put up the border and it looks great. Just need to give the door a second coat of paint and touch up a few bits of the walls and then I'm done...

We'll have to get a joiner in to give us a quote for installing a wooden floor soon.

Jon seems to be really enjoying nusery so far. Today he had lunch at nursery with his friends and loved it. Georgina made him sandwiches in the shape of gingerbread men which he loved. He seems to be quite gegarious there as he keeps telling Georgina about his new friends and she doesn't recognise most of the names!

My voice has been "dodgy" all weekend and I've not been feeling especially well for most of it. Of course, now it's Monday morning, my voice is back, though quite croaky. Going to go into work and see how it goes.

I did manage to paint the woodwork in the bathroom yesterday which was good. Haven't looked at it yet to see if it's good enough or if it needs another coat. Whilst doing it though, I noticed that some bits of the walls by the edges need a bit more work. Also, need to put the new blind up at the window. All in all though, it definitely feels like the work on the bathroom is in the final strait.

Had a sore throat yesterday morning.

Had meetings all day.

Had lost my voice by 5pm.

Went to pub in evening with Georgina :)

Done the walls over the last two evenings. They are very lilac and look nice. Woodwork next...

I see that Mozilla's home page has had a make over. Very nice.