Stuck at home, not at all well. Daughter had a bad chest infection last week (got a GP out at 1am) and has handed it off to me. Which sucks really, I have more than enough to do at work at the moment. So here I am, at the keyboard, keeping up with work when I should probably be in bed.
01/12/2004
28/10/2004
The point of this
Got in touch with an old friend tonight, who has been reading this blog. Which kind of validates the whole thing really. Life is a tad up and down at the moment, and it's nice to be reminded that there are more important things than my existence on the internet: Shit, I haven't seen this guy for about 20 years!
16/09/2004
Top piece of conspiracy theory
Don't lend it any credence but it's worth a squint. Flash is very good for this kind of paranoia.
22/08/2004
Guardian Unlimited | Online | How to save your life
Very good article in the (excellent) Guardian Online section about the extent to which technology is enabling people to record everything they encounter in their daily lives. The diary as it exists in the modern world, which is something of an extension of the blogging concept: 50 years ago you might have kept a paper based diary, in the last decade, you might have captured your life in a blog like this one, or perhaps published to a static website to achieve much the same, in the future, increasingly, everything you do is recorded in a digital form, and if it isn't you can choose to make it so with a device that you'll probably have in your pocket.
The extent to which you'll want to make this public / restricted to friends and family / private becomes a significant decision, and software is likely to make this a critical part of the decision to publish. Seems to me that everyone will grab the chance to record everything they encounter as it become trivial to do so, and this won't be about what I record, but who I publish it to. Whatever....exciting times..... The Warhol 15 minutes becomes irrelevant as everyone grabs a lifetime in a morass of published lifetimes.....
Still not smoking (!) after 19 days, not a puff. So I have rewarded myself by spending three times what I would have spent on fags on underpants, shirts, TFT monitors and digital cameras. Something of an incentive to remain non-smoking, I have to remain fag free for another 5 weeks to fund all this stuff. But that's not, frankly, a bad thing.
Spent the afternoon at my sisters, as she hosted a 2nd birthday party for all the toddlers borne by the mothers that she shared an antenatal swimming class with. Not a bad do really, another of those that leaves you recognising how much your understanding of the world has changed for having a child....hundreds of toddlers charging around pursued by concerned parents, grins on the faces of all the Mums and Dads. I'd have found this a very non-grinning event before Abby...
The extent to which you'll want to make this public / restricted to friends and family / private becomes a significant decision, and software is likely to make this a critical part of the decision to publish. Seems to me that everyone will grab the chance to record everything they encounter as it become trivial to do so, and this won't be about what I record, but who I publish it to. Whatever....exciting times..... The Warhol 15 minutes becomes irrelevant as everyone grabs a lifetime in a morass of published lifetimes.....
Still not smoking (!) after 19 days, not a puff. So I have rewarded myself by spending three times what I would have spent on fags on underpants, shirts, TFT monitors and digital cameras. Something of an incentive to remain non-smoking, I have to remain fag free for another 5 weeks to fund all this stuff. But that's not, frankly, a bad thing.
Spent the afternoon at my sisters, as she hosted a 2nd birthday party for all the toddlers borne by the mothers that she shared an antenatal swimming class with. Not a bad do really, another of those that leaves you recognising how much your understanding of the world has changed for having a child....hundreds of toddlers charging around pursued by concerned parents, grins on the faces of all the Mums and Dads. I'd have found this a very non-grinning event before Abby...
09/08/2004
Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
Still not smoking after 5 days - although today was the first back at work, which was really hard.
Had my occasional round of seeing what was out there on the browser market a few weeks ago, and gave Firefox a whirl. It is now my default browser because, as they say, it rocks.
Still not smoking after 5 days - although today was the first back at work, which was really hard.
Had my occasional round of seeing what was out there on the browser market a few weeks ago, and gave Firefox a whirl. It is now my default browser because, as they say, it rocks.
06/08/2004
Wisley
Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Garden Wisley
Continuing my change of routine alongside the smoking cessation thing, Al, Abby and I toddled off here today. And jolly good it was too, if just a little hot - like 80+, not a cloud in the sky hot, so we dropped about £15 just buying cold drinks and ice-creams around the gardens. It's the first time Abby has had her very own ice-cream, and Al and I found ourselves thinking the same thing as she ate it: At some point we are going to have to deal with her first dropped ice-cream, which is one of those childhood tragedies where you have to suppress a giggle, because it's so significant for a toddler and so not for a parent.....
But I was impressed - the gardens are really immaculate and an absence of yobs and assholes made for a very pleasant day out. Abby was a bit phased by the absence of other kids, but did her best to elicit cooing from pensioners etc I'll work out how to do the blog picture thing in a bit and put up some shots.
Stopping smoking seems to make your life pass very slowly indeed. That's actually quite a good thing whilst I'm not at work.
Continuing my change of routine alongside the smoking cessation thing, Al, Abby and I toddled off here today. And jolly good it was too, if just a little hot - like 80+, not a cloud in the sky hot, so we dropped about £15 just buying cold drinks and ice-creams around the gardens. It's the first time Abby has had her very own ice-cream, and Al and I found ourselves thinking the same thing as she ate it: At some point we are going to have to deal with her first dropped ice-cream, which is one of those childhood tragedies where you have to suppress a giggle, because it's so significant for a toddler and so not for a parent.....
But I was impressed - the gardens are really immaculate and an absence of yobs and assholes made for a very pleasant day out. Abby was a bit phased by the absence of other kids, but did her best to elicit cooing from pensioners etc I'll work out how to do the blog picture thing in a bit and put up some shots.
Stopping smoking seems to make your life pass very slowly indeed. That's actually quite a good thing whilst I'm not at work.
05/08/2004
Day Off
Interesting first full day of not smoking. Took today and tomorrow off work as I figured the change of routine would probably be a good idea. Spent most of it updating my web site, which I've been meaning to do for ages. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it used to be in terms of being easy to maintain and looking consistent. And having something to concentrate on helped a lot.
Took Abby to nursery first thing, which was tough as the journey is full of smoking trigger points. And brought her back at the end of the day, which was also difficult, for the same reason. But I have made the 24hr mark, and feeling quite pleased about that. I even tested myself with a couple of beers at lunchtime. And I smoked so much that, frankly, everything is a trigger point anyway.
Even getting used to the NRT nasal sprays now - they're not pleasant, but they do provide an instant nicotine hit, so will help a lot whilst I get rid of the habitual stuff.
Took Abby to nursery first thing, which was tough as the journey is full of smoking trigger points. And brought her back at the end of the day, which was also difficult, for the same reason. But I have made the 24hr mark, and feeling quite pleased about that. I even tested myself with a couple of beers at lunchtime. And I smoked so much that, frankly, everything is a trigger point anyway.
Even getting used to the NRT nasal sprays now - they're not pleasant, but they do provide an instant nicotine hit, so will help a lot whilst I get rid of the habitual stuff.
04/08/2004
Smoking
Hadn't occurred to me until just now that, having determined to start blogging alongside the revamp of my web site, I'd also determined to stop smoking. Today. About an hour and a half ago. Which seems a good thing to be recording my thoughts on, if only for my own benefit on reread.
I'm using the NHS smoking cessation service - think this will help, if only because it's another incentive to stop. Got a prescription for NRT, nicotine nasal sprays, which are pretty unpleasant, if the first couple of uses are anything to go by. And I'm finding it quite difficult at the moment, but I guess the first few days are the worst anyway......
I'm using the NHS smoking cessation service - think this will help, if only because it's another incentive to stop. Got a prescription for NRT, nicotine nasal sprays, which are pretty unpleasant, if the first couple of uses are anything to go by. And I'm finding it quite difficult at the moment, but I guess the first few days are the worst anyway......
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