We made it thru christmas, and also had Samantha's christening which was pretty good. I did have one problem and that is that my camera has died with a E2 error, so I need to chase that up so and see what is wrong with it. It is only a cheap camera and not digital so I am not too concerned. but it does mean that I need to get another one, and I would really like it to be a digital.
We do have come prictures of the christening and there were alot of other cameras there so we are going to get those ones as well.
At long last people are starting to see the value in and XML-RPC interface for thier webwite.I say this because freshmeat.net have set up one, and I have been urging companies, eps. ones that are doing B2B so that we can query there database and extract the data and present it in a seemless method that fits in with our application or web site.I know this is only the start as my work has a few PICK based products that run using SB+ which is mostly text based but does have a GUI interface. We can query the interface and get information like delivery status from shipping companies, and really anything we want.In the B2B world this makes the internet just a big database, and your inhouse applications can just query the database for everything it wants. Pricelists, consignment details, and everything.I want to see more of this, esp in the business world.
Well my Commodore has got a oil leak, and it is on the seal for the cump, so to replace this, they have to lift the engine out of the car so they can remove the sump and change the seal. This is going to be a real problem. I am hoping that they will be able to done under warrenty so it wont cost me anything. That would be really cool. but I did have to change the center exhaust.Also over the weekend we had dinner at a friends place and exchanged gifts as we will not see them on Christmas day. They gave Xander one of those Razor Scooters, and as soon as he got it he was off. Once we get the photos back I will be able to put it up. But he is a natural.BTW I have some more photos so they will go up on the next day or so.
Well for the second Friday in a raw I have been sick. And I was really sick, I could hardly get out of bed. I was looking forward to working last friday.I was going to be converting a webwiz site to RedBack. This would have been really good to see how long it would take me.It would have been fun. Also I have had to do some documentation for a couple of servers at work, so I decided to learn docbook while I was doing it. Other than the fact that It is going to take forever to build this manual because these systems are so large, I can see now why people like it. No need to think about style, I just need to enter everything. I can then create a dsssl (?) later to match our standard documentation. And I will also produce online documentation, which more than what we have now. If I can find a good win32 xml editor I might be able to convert these guys as well.Also Sam is 1 Month old today ;-)
Well this last weekend was such a bad one, first on Friday the fan in my servers power supply ceased, and so I had to replace the whole power supply. Next Sam had a got sick and we had to take her to hospital, She is OK now, but she just got very upset and got a bad rash. And then while we were doing that some Bastard triied to break into my car and stuffed the locks on both doors. So now I have no car until I get the locks changed. Well they are suppose to come in three's so we have filled the quota in a very short time. and I did manage to fix the central locking on the commodore where Xander now sits, so It wasn't all that bad.
After 9 days Sarah is finally home from hospital. No Baby, but we are close. I am just so happy for her to be home. So for the next 10 days things will be back to some sort of nomality.Again because of Bill I was up all night triing to find a bug in my clients web site, to find that IE6 has a new security option that will stop a standard meta tag. So I had clients that couldn't get to a the extranet web site because of this security. This is a standard tag, and if I can I will always use a standard tag over javascript. Oh well it is fixed now.
I am really beginning to dislike IE more and more. I know that it is accepted as the most compatible web browser, and everything looks the best in it. well what I have to say about that is its a bastard to program for. I find that mozilla is much better and has better concepts. This is probably because the mozilla programmers for the most part are just people contributing and doing any work for nothing, and are more concerned with having a better browser that triing to gain world domination.I have found that doing somethings for my clients is always easier for mozilla, and I always get better results.My only dislike of web programming is that I have to use windows as Dreamweaver only comes out for windows and OS X. I wish they would bring it out for Linux, then I would not have to use windows to do the majority of my commercial web work. BTW I use vi for drupal and stright php so I am not a total sellout.As for the baby update we have just over a week to go, and then we will have a brand spanking new baby. I just hope that the owners manual comes with this one. I am planning to get up pictures or the new baby in it gallery as soon as possible.I just wish I had a digital camera and then it would be even quicker.
We we are definatly getting closer to the due date, and I am just rushed off my feet, oh well it will not be long before it is all over, only 2 weeks to go.
Well I am still having some minor problems with the new network at work. the biggest problem is that I have 2 connections to the internet and I am not load balancing them. I have certain talks that use one link and the rest use the other. Oh well I will get it soon. Just a little bedding down.
I also need to get my butt into gear and add the inserting of images into htmlarea, I am going to do this with the new fscache that I created for filestore2 which will mean things will be pretty striaght forward. Just need to do some wokr on the fileuploads that the default htmlarea uses to do this. add some filtering in both htmlarea and fscache and it will work really great.
Ok so we spent half the day in the hospital for the checkup for the baby. it seems that they are getting a little quicker but it is getting very draining on Sarah. The doctors are talking about bringing the baby on sooner, which will be good for Sarah but it is going to give me problems with my project that I am working on at the moment, but thats life. So it is looking like it is going to be another 3 weeks and then it is going to be battle stations.
Also on a slightly different note. RSLcom is really giving me the shits, basically they have been charging us at work for the last 2 weeks and we are yet to have a service. I would really like to get rid of them but unforcantly I am only the idiot that has get all this to work, not the one the makes the decisions.
also I have spent the afternoon getting my web site resurected after my test machine ate itself during the move. I have managed to get most stuff back but time will tell if I have lost anything.
