February 2008

Hungry Firefox

February 28, 2008

I recently shoved an extra 512mb into my intel iMac to take it to 2gig after getting annoyed at sluggish performance. Mostly because of Firefox’s willingness to eat as much memory as possible. Although it’s helped, it didn’t take long for Firefox to take advantage: That’s only after about six hours of use with around [...]

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Goodbye, Mighty Mouse

February 26, 2008

I’ve finally rid myself of an annoying rodent infestation. It didn’t take a phone call to pest control. Just a simple purchase at Amazon.co.uk. For a while I’ve been using Apple’s Mighty Mouse. It’s a fine piece of plastic topped nicely with a 360 degree scroll ball which has really made my life easier when [...]

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The nursery is complete!

February 20, 2008

Finally. It’s complete. We ordered the furniture from Kiddicare back in very early December and were told to expect a 6-8 week wait. What a long 6-8 weeks that was! We ordered the ‘Susannah’ range from ‘KidsMill’ who are based in Holland. They come over and assemble it for you, which is an added plus. [...]

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We're engaged!

February 7, 2008

No, not Debbie and I. We’ve been engaged for a while. Our little baby has finally got his or her head firmly wedged into Debbie’s pelvis. It was our midwife appointment today which is something we both look forward to. We have a nice friendly midwife who’s very pleasant if not a little scatty. She [...]

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Random Thoughts This Week

February 1, 2008

I’ll be thirty two soon. We’re nearly thirty five weeks pregnant. Where did that time go? I’ll have a child when I’m thirty three. Is that too old? I guess not these days. How old was my dad when he had me? Twenty two… twenty three? I can’t let Debbie see how emotional that SMA [...]

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