October 2007

In Utero Entertainment

October 31, 2007

An interesting thing happened the other night. Debbie’s stomach moved without her involvement. And then it moved again. Little Flump is already strong enough to have her kicks be noted from the outside which we’re both amazed at. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were starting at a 6 week old dot on [...]

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Twenty Week Scan and Our First Purchases

October 29, 2007

The pregnancy highs and lows continue. The day before our twenty week anomaly scan, Debbie had some more minor spotting. Although it was brown which indicates old blood it was still a worry. This put a real dampener on what was going to be a fairly enjoyable experience. The combined worry of discovering an abnormality [...]

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OS X: 10.5 “Leopard” First Thoughts

October 29, 2007

I’ll save a more verbose review for a later blog entry, but I wanted to get some information ‘out there’. First off, the new metallic look is pretty nifty. It gives a nice “new” feel to the standard menus and toolbars. The new ‘Coverflow’ is very nice, too. It provides a quick and easy way [...]

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Alive and Kicking

October 24, 2007

What a twenty weeks it’s been. I can’t believe that we’re already halfway through this pregnancy. We have our NHS twenty week ‘anomaly’ scan booked for this Friday and we’re looking forward to it, nervously. We have no reason to believe that they will find anything wrong but it’s still a very significant scan. We’re [...]

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iTunes is trying to kill me

October 15, 2007

I was flicking through my playlists today and I noticed the ‘On The Go’ playlist for the first time. This is automatically generated by iTunes based on your listening preferences. I was shocked to notice it has been planning to kill me. Click the picture below…

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The secret fears of fatherhood

October 15, 2007

With twenty weeks, the half way point, in sight I find my thoughts filled with how we’ll adjust to life with a newborn. I’ve had almost twenty weeks to think about this but it becomes more and more real each day. Indenti-kit images of a grinning gurgling baby staring up at me are being replaced [...]

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Radiohead: In Rainbows – My Review

October 10, 2007

This review is based on just a few listens. Like most Radiohead songs, you get more from them the more you listen to them. Even though their sound has matured it is still very much a Radiohead album and surprisingly accessible from the very first listen. Is it their best album to date? I’d say [...]

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Radiohead: In Rainbows Out Now!

October 10, 2007

I got my download link this morning for Radiohead’s new album and it was on my desktop in seconds. It’s in the format of DRM free 160 kbps MP3 tracks. I’ve only listened to four songs so far but it’s already a fantastic album. The long awaited “Nude” is nothing short of brilliant. “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” [...]

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Flump's First Film

October 8, 2007

We recently discovered that our local Babybond (and most likely others nationwide) have the ability to record the 2D scanning session onto DVD. This isn’t a service they advertise but we wondered if they could do it as they record the 4D scans. A quick phone call confirmed they could so we made an appointment. [...]

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New self-distributed Radiohead album

October 2, 2007

I’m a huge Radiohead fan and I’ve been keeping an eye on their sites for a while for news of a new album. Rumours were that it would be out early in 2008. Much to the surprise of everyone, Inrainbows is out on Oct 10. But you won’t find it in Virgin Megastore or HMV. [...]

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