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Busy Busy

• February 28th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

Well it’s been a busy weekend – I’m recovering pretty well now that the antibiotics are kicking in, but I’ve been working most of the weekend. Money in the bank I suppose – although all I want to do at the moment is sleep Yes yes I know I have been slack with Related posts:

1. Year of the Busy Nate

Lurgie

• February 24th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

Blehh. I am as sick as a wossname – the standard thing, except this time it seems to be a bit worse than usual. I don’t think it was helped by the air travel, but in general I’m feeling very run down and sorry for myself. Bad throat, dizziness, fever, phlegm galore, Related posts:

1. The Dreaded Lurgie

MXDU Wrapup

• February 24th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

I was originally going to type a missive on each lecture I attended, but the flu or whatever it is I have quickly disabused me of that notion, so I’m just rounding it up now I’ve been ill all week so I’m late in getting to it. The conference was a blast – Related posts:

1. MXDU
2. MXDU keynote
3. Christmas Wrapup

MXDU keynote

• February 17th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

The keynote this morning was a great introduction to the conference. Lots of animations and enjoyable presentations, and finally a great presentation from Tim Buntel on CF7 – a slideshow and code / app demo without saying a word, while he showed us all the new features. CF7 is genuinely looking awesome – Related posts:

1. MXDU
2. MXDU Wrapup

MXDU

• February 17th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

Well! Here we are – we made it intact, all six of us to Sydney. Someone nicked my suitcase from the carousel (didn’t bother looking at the labels and grabbed the first samsonite case he saw – moron) but the helpful staff at virgin blue managed to get ahold of him and get him Related posts:

1. MXDU Wrapup
2. MXDU keynote

Castle

• February 14th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

I’ve been deliberating a lot recently about building a cubby house for B. I’m thinking I’ll make him a little castle, with a tower, and a trapdoor through the roof – maybe one of those cargo nets on the side so he and his friends can scale the walls, and of course a drawbridge. I’m No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Catharsis

• February 14th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

I wrote a rather cathartic email yesterday. I had been putting off replying to my mother’s email for a little while, as I wanted to take some time over it – so I did the whole thing yesterday. Basically I laid out a number of things about my own religious beliefs or lack No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

First day of school

• February 9th, 2005
• Posted in Journal

Well I’m late in writing it, partly because I’ve been busy and partly because I’m still thinking about it. We took B up to his school for his first day in prep – I took the morning off so I could be there too. They were supposed to go in at 0915 but it seems No related posts.[ READ MORE ]