will have to wait as Georgina’s pregnant :) It’s still very early days, but we can’t keep the news to ourselves!
Update
As Georgina won’t be drinking alcohol for a while, Sylvia has suggested this cocktail:
“Peach nectar + ice + grenadine in liquidiser until ice is all mixed in.
Add Sprite & Sparkling water and spin once quickly (or use spoon in liquidiser so you don’t lose all the bubbles)”
We went out today to look for some P20 suntan stuff for our holiday. We didn’t find any in Worcester, so phoned up a few branches of Superdrug around here and found some stock in Bromsgrove. Back into the car we piled and off we went. As it was coming up to lunchtime, we thought we’d treat Jon to a McDonalds… also it was a way to shut him up from saying “I’m Hungrrrreeeee!” every 20 seconds! Just past Droitwich we came across a Little Chef and Georgina’s eyes light up – Fried Breakfast! So we pull into the carpark so that Georgina can have her fried breakfast…
Jon’s face crumpled when he realised that it wasn’t McDonalds! Georgina tried to tell him that it was better food here, but he wasn’t having any of it and so we passed up on a nice fried breakfast and had burgers instead… That’ll teach us to give him advance notice :)
This afternoon we have a company strategy meeting to talk about the processes we use in the company and how to make the production process more streamlined. Thus only half a day of “real” work and half a day of trying not to fall asleep!
Another Register article. This time about the Government’s plans to have a file for every single child in the UK that can be looked at by just about anyone who feels like it. The new initiative doesn’t seem to tackle the root cause of the problems resulting in Victoria Climbi?’s death: Competance.
The Register is reporting that the RIAA is suing a 12 year old girl for downloading music. What really gets me is that the RIAA president Cary Sherman said: “Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation”.
Who are they kidding?
If they charged a sensible price for CDs and sold MP3s themselves at sensible prices (say 50p per song) then they would be raking it in… oh wait.. they are raking it in anyway! I have very little sympathy with an industry that hasn’t cut the prices of CDs since their introduction 20 years or so ago…
Time to start looking at independant artists I think. Anyone give me some good recommendations?
Neil is currently writing an interesting series on software development. This section comes from today’s piece on reliability of software.
“Programmers, like all people, are fairly lazy. For any sufficiently complex problem, a programmer will implement the basic part well enough, but will frequently leave a segment for implementing later. If you look though the code of an application, you will no doubt find comments marked up with initials, a few asterisks or an X or three. These are the sections the programmers decided to leave for later, possibly hoping that when later came, it would be someone else working on it.”
It’s so true!
Clearly this is my week! Another productive day so far!
It’s about to do downhill though as I’m doing a pre-loader for a Flash movie this afternoon and I’m not a fan…
This is turning into a really productive day today. I’m not sure why, but I’ve managed to tick off 5 items on a list of 7 things to be done by Wednesday. It’s very satisfying and I was getting comfortable with the idea of making the deadline…
The dangers of complacency.
Just now, I’ve been given two more jobs to be done by tomorrow night which means that 5 out of 7 might be all they get for Wednesday. Typical!
We went to Merry Hill shopping centre this morning/lunchtime. Mainly to have a look around. It’s very nice and not very far away (half an hour’s drive). Jon didn’t cope very well with not having a lunchtime nap though and has been whinging all afternoon :(
The laptop we use to connect to the Internet has died :( There’s a nasty clicking sound when the harddrive is accessed and it doesn’t work any more… We’ve now set it up so that we connect via Georgina’s PC until we decide what to do about having a third PC available whilst we play games :)