Haven’t had time to post anything, but now’s the time to record a few events.

Internet friend (though I haven’t seen her for years) Sarsparilla managed to do a whopping 80Km bike ride without expiring, which is far, far better than I could hope to achieve. In the process, she wangled cash out of a goodly amount of people towards KOTO, a seemingly noble cause to provide vocational training in Hanoi. If V is involved, you know it’s good.

Elsewhere, looby has been getting frisky, bless ‘im. He complains a bit about things, but he seems to have a lot going on in comparion to me. I notice he’s sort of half hidden the original version of events, but at least has the cojones to link to it. I envy him.

Lastly, and by no means leastly, my elder boy did what I never thought he’d do, and that was to bite through a crisp and eat it. Luke doesn’t chew, as I might have mentioned before. He doesn’t bite, chew or do anything with food once it’s in his mouth – some process stopped when he was 6 months old, so we have to mush everything up into a paste and hand feed him, but today he bit into something and didn’t gag or choke. He’s 3.5 years old, and he has finally bitten into a crisp and eaten the result. You wouldn’t believe something so trivial could make his parents so happy. We’re continuing with our policy of ignoring what the experts say, and just taking it as it comes. As Jan (amongst others) have said, it’ll happen when it happens. You don’t see teenagers going to college who can’t chew a chip.

And that’s what we’re banking on.

I’ve noticed that Roboraptor seems to be this years popular robo type toy, but I’m going to hold out for this little thing – The Sony QRIO. I know, I know, Sony aren’t exactly flavour of the month at the moment, but just look at the video of the bots movement – walking up stairs, staying level on a surfboard, even able to stand on one leg. Maybe then I’ll shell out for one of these things.

I believe that are only 4 working QRIOs in the worldas of now. I’ll wait until the Chinese start mass producing them.

Mind you, it does throw like a girl, so there’s still work to be done.

Acme, the makers of thttpd, have an excellent 404 page that would probably scare most windows users.

404 Not Found

I might nick that!

I hate to say it, but I’d quite like one of these – Sona Mobile – Star Trek Theme Phone.

The question is, would I still have a marraige if I got it? In all likelihood, yes but only in name.

I couldn’t believe this when I saw it first. I wanted to find out some information from Companies House – the official UK organisation that incorporates, tracks and dissolves limited companies in the UK. No problem, they have their WebCheck program, I’ve used it before, so off I went.

I’m sure there’s a valid reason why their web site should be closed on Sunday, I just can’t think of one.