The big news today, I’m ashamed to admit has nothing to do with me or Athina… one of our colleagues, Sudari, has just given birth to a baby boy (her second).
Weighing in at 3.1 kilos and measuring 50cm, top to toe, mother and child look happy and healthy. The father looks like he could do with a bit more sleep.
Afternoon,
Sean
Athina & I returned to the doctor last night and it turns out that Little Shrimpy is not 7 weeks and some but 8 weeks and 3 days (as of today, Feb 21st).
Confused &, again, thrilled… we got the whole pregnancy thing with a 2-month discount.
Before I share that little story, however, you may want to take a quick look at Athina’s favourite website at the moment: 3DPregnancy.com — I guess it’s more of a portal than anything else but the real hook for us is the rotating 3D image of the foetus on a week by week basis. Cool although possibly slightly creepy.
Ok, I’m obviously as goofy as a perfectly goofy expectant father can be:
Don’t know what I’m talking about?
Click here: Hello Baby : Sean Hynes
Waiting slightly nervously for a visit with the doctor tonight as the preamble to a battery of tests tomorrow.
Given that Athina’s already 7 and a bit weeks in (7 weeks & 4 days today), we missed all the early tests completely and now have to go back and check blood, virii, and so on… luckily I clipped my nails last night so have nothing to nibble on.
Weight today (not mine; Athina’s) 100 pounds exactly or a hair over 45 kilos.
By the way, if you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about… click here.
Sean
Athina & I shot this video yesterday (uploaded to GoogleVideo):
If you’re a complete masochist and need more fuel for your self-inflicting pain fantasies, you can download the Windows Media format file here:
http://www.indonesiaexport.com/video/thefinalcut.wmv
Or the MPG here:
http://www.indonesiaexport.com/video/thefinalcut.mp4
Both files are around 4 megs.
Sean
A few years ago (maybe 5 years), I used the web as my own personal library of resources via search engines like Google & Yahoo..
If I or a friend were sick, I’d hit the search engines with a list of symptoms.
Prescription medicine? I’d check it out online and make sure I knew the side-effects and, when appropriate, seek out generic equivalents.
Computer problems? Likewise.
I might not always get the answers I needed on the first page but fairly quickly.
Today, I searched Yahoo for “best websites for baby information” — no quote marks and you can click that link to reproduce the search.
Best Chairs, Inc? How the hell did that get in there?
In fact, why did any of those guys show up at the top of the page.
How are they relevant?
Now, I search medicine, I get only advertisers and scam artists repeating the same information, over and over and over and over again. Right down to the punctuation. Or, worse, a fake site made up of keywords (that happens a lot).
What gives? How come these services are making all these megabucks but their primary goal and business description is consistently delivering less quality.
Ticks me off.
These days, bookmarks are more and more important, I find a good site (not related to search engines), bookmark it and go there when I need the info. I can no longer use Google or Yahoo to help me find the way.
Sean
I’ve finally made the leap from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Ok, scratch “leap”, let’s say “stumble”.
Slow doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I avoided upgrading to XP for years (ran Windows 2000 with practically zero errors) and I hope to avoid VISTA for many years to come but, with Office, there’s that damn lack of backward compatibility which kind of makes it impossible… got a lot of spreadsheets going up and back so here I am.
Anyhoo, along with the 8 million how to and tips articles online, Kurt’s summary (Kurt Shintaku’s Blog: HOWTO: How to fix the pauses in Outlook 2007 or speed up Outlook 2007) does a pretty good job of helping identify the hoops you need to jump through in order to make Outlook run right.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if some at Microsoft had written it?
Sean
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