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Girls’ Night

July 14, 2009 by

Our Blootiful Pincess turned 3 in May, and so she, her mother, and I went out for a special treat this evening.

It was her mother’s idea, an excursion while her bigger brothers and their Dad went to the movies, and we went to that chocolate lover’s decadent paradise… Max Brenner’s.  This was a production effort on the little lady’s part… and it started with a pretty dress, tights and patent black shoes.  Hair up in pigtails and a little bit of make up (did I mention she’s 3?? – lipgloss is makeup in her book).

Mummy was under strict instruction to dress in a ‘girt’ as well.  So the pair of them arrived at my place for dinner before hand looking very fetching leaving me in my jeans feeling far from festive enough (remedied before we left the house).  I wish I could remember every funny thing she says, because, as you’ll imagine from the photo, this kid is chock full of personality and she is never short of a word!!

Once dinner was eaten and tidied away I was escorted to my room in search of my ‘girt’ (thank goodness I own one… I rarely wear it) and suitably attired we drove down to Manly to get chocolately…

On the way there the little miss entertained us with made songs… which started with “up, up, up, down, down, down” in response to the terrain we were driving and finished with a poo song of some sort which was hilarious.  You can tell she has older brothers…

We got to Max’s and ordered, a Mexican hot chocolate to drink, for me and a Belgian waffle smothered in melty milk chcolate and she and her Mum feasted on a fondue for two with all sorts of goodies which was accompanied by a mint hot chocolate… All of the tasty offerings were a hit for one and all and Miss 3 was a hit with the wait staff and fellow diners, she’s so cute you can’t help but be amused.  Check out the pix below the fold, you’ll see what I mean!

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No Apology Necessary

July 12, 2009 by

There’s been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the decline of blogging and Twitter gets the blame, I have to say, I’ve found this to be partly true. I twitter daily, sometimes more than once and I’m not terribly happy about the effect it’s had on my blog. I’m rather fond of this forum and the record it has kept for me of my life the last 5 years (I think I’m close to that anniversary) Crumbs…

I think of the changes wrought in my world, the early blog on the Wibsite, the move to self hosted Movable Type… why did I even do that? I can scarcely tell you but I’ve been faithful to that platform ever since, becoming proficient enough to the point of helping other Movable Typists as well.

I’ve documented monument and trivia and I’d be very disappointed with myself not to continue doing the same.  I’d be kidding myself if I thought I had an audience of more than twenty, nor that there’d be much hew and cry if I did quietly wind things down (more than I have done) but I’ve stopped listening to those voices, as others have said before me, the blog’s for me, not the audience.  Like I really have anything important to say, I mean, really… (and no I’m not fishing, merely stating the obvious).

So I’ve been wondering about the down turn in my blogging. I could also blame the weight of university study, I could even blog more about that but I doubt there’s much that many would find interesting… eg.  “oooh, we talked about internet governance today and what sort of issues there are surrounding the management of TLDS, CCTLDS and whether ICANN can resist a push to be more democratically managed…

See? I saw you glaze over… truth is, I do too… not best practice while you’re sitting in class…

I could blame the fact that I’m not working for anyone but myself and I’m not getting out much due to financial constraints or… and the list goes on.  I was thinking about the work thing, and I never blogged about that before and there’s even less scandal when I’m working for myself so where did all my blog fodder go!!! 

I could get all introspective about where my life is going, the struggles I’m having with church and the quiet path I seem to be beating to a different congregation… but that’s a bit personal, I could get into the internet dating scene again and try that on… but I don’t see that sitting comfortably either…

So I’m wondering what to do apart from sprucing it up, I do love when the design says more about me, and I’m missing retro girl…

I’m also considering a retrospective publishing of my Epic American/British and European Journeys with my sister from the early 90’s complete with scanned photos from that undertaking and scans of the badges collected along the way. I actually am keen to get some of that stuff published for my own interest and to that end I have transcribed one journal so I’m on the way…. the photo scanning thing… that’s a mammoth task I think..

I’m wondering if I need to plan a programme of blogging…  Say 3 posts a week… themed…

Photo of the Week…
Recipe of the Week…
Travel story of the Week…

Over to you… any ideas?

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Mid Year Break

June 22, 2009 by

Well, here I am, halfway through 2009 and, as it happens, also half way through my course. 

I can scarcely believe how quickly it has gone, I guess when one is as busy as I have been it can be expected that the time would pass in a blur.  I can certainly see the results of all that concentrated effort in the pile of completed assignments, the screeds of paper read and notated, the results posted on Moodle and all in all, it has been very satisfactory.

I have one final assessment that I am going into college tomorrow to present it to my lecturers but I thought that you might to have a look at it first!!!  It’s a flash animation, and contrary to previous gif animations I’ve done for you, this one is a little bit higher end.  It’s the first part of what will be a two part project, the 2nd half will be presented at the end of the year, and when it is finished it will be a 2009 Advent Calendar you can play along with at home!!!

So without further ado, click the image…


Mouse over the image to see which bits are active and then click or hover to play with it.  If you get over an audio clip it’s prudent to wait until it’s finished before you go onto the next otherwise you get a bit of sensory overload…

The source design was a cross-stitch I did in 1998, I’ve had it sitting in my finished/unframed drawer for all that time and I’ve wanted to animate it for ages!  At lest this way it’s being used even if that’s not in the traditional manner.

Would love to hear what you think in the comments

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A Lulu video

June 8, 2009 by

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