Highlights…

Well that didn’t take long before I broke my promise to blog weekly.  Again.

In hindsight the idea of blogging weekly while running 13SQN (Kirsty is on leave so I’m the acting Unit Commander!) and having a new baby in the house was a bit of a stretch.

Anyhoo… on a professional front – I’ve just started working on building WordPress plugins and widgets!  Probably sounds really dull to everyone else, but this is a very important skill if I’m to speed up my development time on jobs.  I’ve also become familiar with jQuery which is a fantastic Javascript library to enable… well… ALL SORTS!  And jobs… I’m pretty proud of the stuff we’ve been doing too.  Majors in the past couple of months have been:

  • Need A Nerd – a national geeks-on-wheels type of operation.  Those sliders on the homepage are all me thanks to the wonders of jQuery Cycle, same goes for the Nerd Nation map.
  • The Boat House Vanuatu (maps page) - made a multi-point Google Map for an existing client – easy when you know how!! (Another one of my jQuery Cycle examples in the cross fader at the top of the page.

There’s all sorts of others which you can see on our work blog

Personally – well life’s been pretty full with the new little guy – although being that he’s breast fed, I’m only really good for the occasional nappy change and bath.  That’s all good though!!

We’ve also just invested in a new entertainment unit thanks to Harvey Normans 50 months interest free.  It’s a Panasonic BluRay player which has surround sound and plays DivX/Xvid formatted AVI movies via USB.  This means I can archive all my DVDs to Xvid format and play them straight from my external hard drive!!  Got quite the archiving process going on right now!

So far we’ve also watched Avatar and Underworld – Rise of the Lycans – both visually stunning (especially on BluRay) but both with fairly weak story lines; Avatar because it was written more than 10 years ago so seems very dated (think Pocahontas in space) and Rise of the Lycans probably because we KNEW the story anyway because most of it had been told in the previous movies.

Anyhoo… stopping now so as not to bore you all – will work on my blogging schedule!!!!

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