... and now for the muse

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

It's not the winning...

It's the taking apart.

An old Nike billboard ad I recall around London in the 90s. Bit of a fav.

I wanted to tell Case that yesterday when she was sprinting down the track in her 60m club champs race at Frankton Atheletic Club. Great race - I'm sure she came second - but she was even placed! I'm still thinking about it today - from how she doesn't care ... ran a good race, had a sausage and soft drink and tomorrow is a different day - but I'd have liked to see her get her true placing. I wasn't looking across the tape so that could have affected my judgment of her being a metre in front of the person who was given second place.

Anyway, it niggles away and I feel that maybe I should right (as in correct) this for Casey's sake. But I ain't gonna. She's got the 40m next week - she can do the right-ing...maybe, if she's fast enough:-) I guess for those parents that push their kids my feelings might have been actions (definitely to no avail). Probably wouldn't make the sausies or soda any better for the kids.

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

where you been

For the last few days I have persisted with trying to get mail2blogger to work for me. Unfortunately it hasn't yet. But blogger does report some issues with the app - so I'll keep an eye on things and perhaps throw another couple of trials via that route.

Meanwhile, if the app kicks in to action and processes back-dated stuff there should be 6 or so test posts turn up. Watching and waiting...

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

arachnia

Brae and I have both been hit by suspected spider bits. My middle left toe was sore on friday so I whipped my shoes off thinking it was a blister from too much walking (did about 2ks on work related stuff) - but things got gruesome over the weekend to the stage where I had to draw a pen mark round my foot to keep an eye on the spread of the poison up my foot.

Kinda funny explaining things to Scratch at his place on Saturday when there for a barbie. Told him I wasn't hitting squash this weekend 'cause of the toe and he says "what's with it". "Blister", I say. Laughing he calls me a girl - but then I add that it's probably a white-tailed spider bite. Now he's all interested and wants to take a look at its rampant rotting - not easy to do while his dog is licking things to invoke an animal world cure.

Brae was a different kettle of fish. Sore on his leg went from about 1cent piece size - remember those - to a scabby 5cent piece size. After preschool yesterday the poor little blighter had a decent 10cent pus-sey core with the red imflamation extending out to beyond a 50cent circumference. Well that's about the price of it. Anyway - visit to A&E and he's got the drugs which we're sharing as part of the healing process.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

in these days of changing ways

I'm spurred by my son's avid involvement with Thomas the Tank Engine at the moment to write about the sorry state of our PC world and for some reason Rod Stewart's Killing of Georgie sprung in to my mind while thinking of a suitable title. I love that song - it's got a whole line that I, as a PS2 singstar certified tone deaf loser, can cope with ... right near the end:

do... da do. da do ... do do do do da do.. da do da do

Lately every trip to the video store has been punctuated by the hireage of a TtTE collection. I noticed in a previous week's edition that the suited top hat guy was referred to by the narrator as Sir Top-In-Hat or some such. Had to scratch my memory a bit because I was sure this was the same fellah formerly known as The Fat Controller. And what do you know, as sure as gollywogs are to lose place in my kids' vocabs The Fat Controller is destined to a similar fate.

The thing that got me about this is, in watching this week's edition, TFC seems to have quite a different character to STIH - and yet only the name has changed.

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

notworking

oops, that was supposed to be networking but they were pretty much the same thing on the home front half an hour ago. The old boy and me got together thinking that we might try replacing my adsl router supplied by our supra-friendly national telco with a wireless one that was on that back of a truck. We've failed and failed and failed. But many hammer knocks later and dozens of restarts the little old home network beats again.

NTS: don't frig.

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

work front

Back in at EW work today ... dealing with a pile of admin mails from the Frontier system that manages our web content flow. A shared server ran out of disk space and brought everything to its knees...time to recode that dependency I think.

Uni work mainly involves getting a Zope project off the ground - I feel we may even have something to run with now. Thought I'd note this devShed article on building a simple Zope forum in the hope that I might get to running through it later on.

Keen to look into this devshed article on popup notes using JS and CSS - might be handy for the new EA stuff.

Plenty of CSS advice after The CSS anthology review on slashdot - tend to agree that:

The added bonus of the online tutorials is that you can see the code in action
and edit it yourself as you go. Not sure who would plonk down good money when so
many thorough tutorials are online.

I'd like to get back to this post 'cause it's advice of developing in mozilla and fixing for MSIE strikes true for me.

Anyway, it's hot in Ham today - 19 degrees at breakfast with high humidity planned for the day ... think I might just stay near the air con for the rest of the day.