October 2003 Archives

Halloween Pumpkin!

Do you like the pumpkin Kim carved?

Stop Alien Abductions

"Results of the thought screen helmet exceeded expectations. Since January 2000 aliens have not taken any abductees while they were wearing thought screen helmets using Velostat shielding."

http://www.stopabductions.com/

Make sure you read the case histories :)

Angelic?

Awaiting his dinner...

Pumpkin Wallpaper

Like my wallpaper? Get it from wincustomize.com. I'm looking forward to Halloween! We must get Jack a pumpkin (Jack-o-Lantern?)

Photo Archive

I've been tinkering with a few plugins to create a full gallery of all the images that have been posted to this blog. It's a little simplistic at the moment, but see it here. There's a permanent link in the archive section on the right.

Thanks to Brandon Fuller for this tweak. If it works out I'll have to donate a few quid to him.

Black Swan

Funky wildlife around here. There's also a water vole/rat running around my feet, but he's much harder to get a photo of.

A Bite

So nearly double figures. A 9.5lb common carp. One bite so far, and one fish.

Mirror Lake

A quiet afternoon's fishing (cos the fish ain't biting).

New Shoes

Jack's new shoes, and Dad's new shoes.

Websters

Back in Cheltenham for the weekend. From left to right:

Kim, Dad, Mum, Jack.

Bed Head

Serious bed head yesterday morning. I had the same.It must be the weather in Cardiff.

Apple Expo

Yay! I just booked my ticket for the Apple Expo in London on 20-22nd November!

South West Implant Centre

Yeay! The client likes his website!

I've just a bit of polishing and bug fixing, and adding of smiley, happy people photos left to do. Next!

Cold and Wet

We had the first frost last night; well the car was frozen anyway. And the rain has followed. I'm going to freeze cycling home! Apparently it is snowing in Ebbw Vale.

Library

Jack went to the library yesterday and got his own library card!

WICC

We took Jack up to the climbing wall for the first time today. He stayed interested in his Dad's climbing for a couple of hours. It was a very sociable afternoon, with a fair few families and kids, plus a couple of mates.

Taffs Well

Autumn is very pretty at the mo. See this sunny pic of Taffs Well crag, by Castle Coch.

Kim and Jack

Reading

Kim and Jack, reading together.

Network

Apologies for the infrequent updates. Winsock2 got corrupted on my server, knocking me off the internet. Despite fixing that, the rest of the network was still screwed. I.e. you could see my website, but I couldn't see the rest of the internet. So I shelled out for a hardware router from Linksys which I have just installed. It took about 10 minutes, and with a bit of configuration for my website, all is well again.

That'll teach me for scrimping!

It's damned nice to have everything running properly again. I've been limited to dial up from my iBook for over a week. When stuff you rely on doesn't work properly it gets damned stressful!

Death Star Home Cinema

Ahhhhh. I just spent half an hour getting a tiny metal splinter out of my mouse clicking finger with a safety pin. Oh, that feels sooo gooood.

Anyhoo, Grubby sent me this top link:

http://www.dillonworks.com/portfolio/starwarstheater/index.html

Who would live in a house like this?

Photo From Ele!

My lil sis sent me an email and a photo from Sri Lanka! Ele the elephant?

At The Park

A bumper load of photos today, partly because I haven't posted for two days, and partly because I know Ele will be checking this website from Singapore this week. These photos are all from today.

On The Swings

And then we went to Roath park to play on the swings and slides:

Jack at Lunch

Jack after lunch at the Bridgend retail outlet centre. We had his feet measured: size 3 and a half, G width. That's the size for most 14 month olds!

Jack in the Car

Jack loves his new car seat!

Breakfast TV

Dad's watching breakfast TV while the boy plays with his toys. He's always a happy boy first thing in the morning.

Velodrome

Gumby sent me this pic of the brand new Newport velodrome. Wow, a top class cycling stadium in South Wales. Everyone's loving it, and buying track bikes left, right and centre.

Reading

Kim and Jack, reading a book about colours.

New PCR Machines

Oooh - new toys at work! Dull, eh?

NTL Still Down

Rubbish. My NTL broadband connection has been down since Saturday, and unlike the service status website says, the problem has not been resolved. Other NTL broadband users in Cardiff are having the same problems. You can still see this website, but I can't get internet access from outside. I rang once, but after being on hold for an hour (yes, literally one hour) and then speaking to a really unhelpful tech I'm not ringing again. I'll send them a request for compensation by snail mail, I guess.

It's a very good job I'm not working on a website this week.

Dinner Time!

He's a happy boy when he's being fed - like his dad!

Standing

I haven't posted pics of Jack for a while, although I added loads to his website recently.

Here's a pic of him standing up against the sofa.

NTL Down

My NTL internet connection is down. So this website is also down. So you can't read this...

Rabbit

That bloody rabbit's loose again.

Jif: I Quit

I've had enough. I am stepping (a very big step) backwards from the Jif website. Obviously I am so out of touch with the club that I am incapable of operating as a webmaster in it's fullest sense. I will post no more news articles, no more race reports, no more photos and no more videos.

I will continue to maintain and moderate the site, but people can post their own news. I will not chase people up for race reports, photos, race results, agm reports, or race season info. I will not attend this winter's cross season to take photos and videos.

I'll try and create a gallery to which members can post their own photos, and this will take up a serious chunk of my time. However, once done, I won't have to add photos myself. Andy and Craig have been great at getting photos together, so it'd be cool for them to be able to post their own photos with their own captions.

This is your website. I have created it for you. Use it or lose it. I no longer care. If you want to post something to the Grind email me and I'll create a login for you to post it yourself.

My time is too precious and I'm getting too old for any more of this shit.

Ele the Elephant

My little sister has been washing and feeding baby elephants in Sri Lanka. I'm glad you're enjoying the blog, Ele!

Mouse and Work

I got my new mouse the other day, and yes, it is superb. Possibly one of the best mice in the world. Gonna have to get one for work too.

Which is all a good job really since I seem to be getting more offers of web design work coming in. Nothing definate - a little bit of site management here, a possible tender there. This has gone from a one off for Bob to a bit of a small business. Which means I'm going to have to tell the taxman and speak to some accountant buddies....

Wow, who'd have thought it? Me and my brother both setting up separate businesses in the same year?