Archive for April, 2007
Subversion bliss
While the votes for a name for our newborn boy keep coming in, I’m back at work. On the agenda today: exam invigilation (hmph), buying some scanners (yay) and setting up a new Subversion repository. Have you all read Pragmatic Version Control? I thought I was pretty well-versed with SVN, but this great book is [...]
New feed url
So it must show that I’m on paternity leave until tomorrow (sic!), because I’m doing lots of housekeeping around my blog. For some time, I’ve wanted to leave syndication and feedcount up to Feedburner, and I’ve just set it up, as well as a new WP theme that will I think help me expand this [...]
8 Days
So, as the poll continues on finding a name for the new baby, 8 days into his life, he’s looking a bit more rested and at peace with the world. He’s lost a bit of that ‘I’ve just been shipped from the Vega constellation’ puffiness, and he’s starting to look more like, well, himself.
Music for toddlers
Thomas Grill, an amazing composer/programmer whose Flext software C++ layer has helped countless PD/MaxMSP minions write their own objects (including me), just sent us an improvisation, dedicated to our two sons. All of us listened to it, and Thomas thought it was delightful (in fact hopped about for a bit exclaiming ‘Woo!Woo!’). In Grill’s words:
Here’s [...]
Naming our second son
So here’s the survey I was talking about. Go ahead, my blogosphere minions, vote! Add a name! Make yourselves at home! Come change some nappies!
The poll is going to be running for a week, after which we’ll take council, reconvene, and make a choice, hopefully.
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