rachelandrew

in the news…

“Dolls cry out against teen mums” – I’ve seen details of this scheme before and it seemed a bit odd then… Babies cry every few hours for feeding for only a few months at most, my daughter slept for 7 hours a night from 3 months, after the first few months the actual ‘childcare’ becomes in the news…

More pooters … must have more!

The pooter count increases. Drew’s new ickle imac “for testing.. no, its NOT a toy” has taken up residence on my dining table, my new machine is still awaiting its memory before it can be put together… and there is an Amstrad on its way (I found one on eBay – yay!) I have no More pooters … must have more!

Smart tags be gone!

Drew has built a neat little Dreamweaver extension which inserts the necessary code to prevent Smart Tags being displayed in your pages. Microsoft have had a bit of a turnaround on this ‘feature’ but I doubt we have heard the last of it…. Smart Tags Fever!

July

This year is flying by… Drew would put it down to a sign of my advancing years, I prefer to think its a sign of being way too busy. I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new computer, or rather the components that will be my new computer. The Small Person is also eagerly July

Warning labels

Stupid warning labels from actual products. My favourite has to be “Warning! This is not underwear! Do not attempt to put in pants.” — On the packaging for a wristwatch

forgive me for my lack of updating

I’ve been busy. Really busy. Work work, freelance work, the book-writing-boyfriend, the small naughty person, something I can’t tell you just yet, and various geek activities are keeping me too busy to find interesting things to blog this week! There are so many things I want to do with this site also, for instance – forgive me for my lack of updating

Too busy being a geek to blog…

The PHP and MySQL install was eventually a success so I have something new to play with – hence my silence here! While battling with MySQL I came across Developer Shed which is fullof interesting and well written articles and tutorials on open source web development topics.

awww

Cute story – I used to have pet mice

music

Last night Drew and I went to see Kate Rusby’s gig. Neither of us had heard of her – there was an article in the local rag about the gig so we thought we’d chance it – it was well worth the chance. If you like folk music, she is someone worth keeping an eye music