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We're expecting!

I'm delighted (well, actually alternating between incredibly excited and amazingly scared) to announce that Liz and I are expecting our first baby, around 19th January 2007!

We went to our 12 week scan yesterday morning... Baby Pither

Our baby is all there, a good size (almost unbelievably small at about 6.7cm long) and apparently likes wriggling a lot. :-)

We've kept this …

Tags: baby liz family


Buddy Brilliant

Having seen the excellent Buddy musical at the Brighton Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, I would heartily recomend it to anyone near any of the performances on the rest of the tour.

"The Big Bopper" from the show also has a blog:

http://bigbopper.iblog.com/

What he's said about Brighton:

http://bigbopper.iblog.com/post/4590/32132 http://bigbopper.iblog.com/post/4590/32764

The theatre had a surprising number of spare seats, …

Tags: theatre

Trapped in Jars

Having had my own "interesting" experiences with both Java dependency tracking/hunting, jar explosions and XML (Swing in my case) debugging nightmares, I found this article a good read...

No... More... Jars


For a new job

August will be the fifth anniversary of my employment with Digitalbrain. While I have enjoyed much of my time there a great deal and learnt a lot, it is now time for me to move to a new challenge.

Along with this change I am wanting to move from systems administration into development (probably perl or java, although ruby …


New Typo Site

Welcome to my brand new Typo based blog and homepage.

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