Altered Prose at Pif’s Corner

So no kid today. My guess is that Beth will probably go at least another few days. I really think the March 9th due date will turn out to be within a day or two of accuracy. Beth of course thinks I should keep my opinions to myself, and since I’m so smart I should carry the kid around my belly for a bit.

Tonight we bought a new digital camera – a Sony Cybershot (DSC-W70). We had a FujuFilm FinePix, but it was old and actually was having trouble with the batteries, so we opted to buy a new camera. I’ve just started reading the manual, and the battery is still charging, but so far I think the camera will do great. It’s slimmer than what we had, which I’m thinking will be good for when we go to the hospital. I’m very impressed with the on-screen UI too…all the options are explained as you go; I’d suspect you could use this camera easily without even reading more than the “read me first” pamphlet. And so far from what I’m reading, it has a lot of options to taking control of the shot and using your own settings.

This web site is also coming along. I hope to start laying out a consistent design for all the sections, though. Out of the box Community Server doesn’t really do a good job at maintaining a singular navigation UI. But as I use this at work, I’m thinking I can whip up something over the next day or so. I definitely want to bring the ‘latest blogs’ to the homepage…I may even try to rig up an external rss reader on the homepage as well…not sure if I can leverage any of the ‘My Reader’ app code, but at the very least I’ve got a simple rss aggregator I’ve used at work.

I hope to upload some more photos too. That’s it for now.

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Wow. Well, we’ve got one official week left until I find out whether or not the baby is really mine. … Right, that joke will definitely get me into trouble…

So about an hour and a half ago my co-workers through me a baby shower bash. Masculinity issues aside, I found it to be very impressive. There was a very nice homemade cake from Chris’s mom.in.law. A lot of people from not only my department by a couple others also showed up. I was very happy and grateful to see these people; Avid is by far the best place I’ve ever worked at.

OK, it’s also the only place I’ve ever worked.

Tony got a very nice Winnie the Pooh mobile … we ought to get some good coding out of him over the next few days. Now, the baby got some crib sheets, a bouncy seat and a very soft blanket. Beth and I got a gift certificate to Babies ‘R Wee In case any of my co-workers see this, thank you again!

So that’s a quick update. I figure there will be more information soon to come…