Entries from May 2008

E65: New Phone

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

My old N73 had a broken ’1′ key so I took it back to the O2 shop. As in was still under warranty they swapped it straight away for a new phone. Pretty good service. Fortunately, they didn’t have another N73 in stock so I was offered an E65 instead. It’s a slider phone, still [...]

A Sick Child

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Norah spent last night in the Children’s Ward of Cork University Hospital with Erythema multiforme. It started as a small rash under her chin on Saturday morning, and eventually spread with small spots on her body and legs. The GP said it was just probably an allergic reaction, perhaps to a bacteria or virus. Anyway, [...]

Non-hokum Baby Toy

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The Prince Lionheart Slumber Bear sounds like the typical over-hyped nonsense targeted at new parents: The Original Slumber Bear contains the ONLY actual intra-uterine, recorded womb sound to help lull your Baby to sleep in minutes! The fact is, it actually works.  Norah was very restless any time we put her down in the cot [...]

I was a second-row’er

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Good intentions, bad narcolepsy.

Geek Humour

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

This made laugh although Hilary was not so impressed: Don’t worry about $127 a barrel oil, just one more dollar and it’ll overflow into the sign bit. -$128 oil for all!

Facebook doesn’t work (for me)

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Facebook just isn’t working for me — I think it’s designed for people with friends. If you’re happy to have all your updates, photos, conversations etc on the one site, and share that info with just your “friends” then perhaps it does work. But the fact is that I don’t want to keep all my [...]

Network Storage

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I’m big into anything that means I don’t have to walk up and down the stairs at the moment. One of the annoying things was getting the laptop in the same place as the backup drive, which meant that I wasn’t actually making any backups. With lots of priceless baby pictures that kinda worries me. [...]