Month: April 2003

Yesterday morning, my sister gave birth to this little fella:

Unfortunately, the hospitals are under quarantine because of the SARS situation (which isn’t as bad as everyone outside Accordion City makes it out to be), so I can’t visit Eileen and Nicholas. I’ll have to wait until she goes home, which should be either Sunday or Monday.

Eileen’s given me a special task: I’m to help Aidan get used to the idea of having a younger sibling. You see, I have experience in this area.

I wonder how the little guy’s going to handle it.

I had some trouble getting to Blogger yesterday. I couldn’t connect to it at all yesterday — my computer was able to “find” Blogger but not connect to it (Techie note: ping resolved Blogger to its IP address, but I got 100% packet loss). It was probably some kind of glitch with my Internet service provider. Hence a lack of postings.

But, as George Constanza from Seinfeld would say: “I’m back, baby, I’m back!“

Interesting techie tidbits in my recently-revitalized techie blog, The Happiest Geek on Earth:

• Ben and Mena Trott are now heading the “Monsters of Blogging Tour”! (Well, sort of)
• Bob Frankston’s notes on implementing the grand-daddy of spreadsheets, VisiCalc

One of my heroes, Steve Wozniak (the “nice Steve” of the original Apple duo), poses for these parody ads for Segways. You can even download a template to make your own!

The caption for this picture is:

It could only happen in space: A tiny bubble of air hangs suspended inside a droplet of water. The droplet rests in the cup of a delicate green leaf, yet the stalk doesn’t bend at all.

Thanks to Adam for the link!

Rap to the tune of Eminem’s The Real Slim Shady:

I’m Saddam. Yes, I’m the real Saddam.

And you other Saddams can all kiss my bottom.

So won’t the real Hussein please stand up?

Please stand up?

Please stand up?

You’ll need Flash to see this one.

A quick guide on how to keep up with what’s happening at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, in my other blog, The Happiest Geek on Earth.

A pity I can’t go, but that’s because my sister’s scheduled for a Caesarean on Thursday. I thought I should be around, but it turns out that the SARS problem makes it so that only husbands/life-partners/whatever-they’re-calling-them-these-days can visit. Ah well. There will be another conference. My new nephew gets born only once.