Coffee Pot

I bought a stainless steel canteen for myself to take coffe to work in. I used it for the first time yesterday whilst working (trial run was at Legoland last Friday). But, today I forgot it!!! Feel my pain...

Rice Pudding

Have just walked passed the dinner laid out for lunch in the canteen (if you get my meaning) and there is a huge vat of rice pudding!

But I came in late and I haven't time to take a lunch break.... It's Roast Day today too. Oh, the humanity!

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A little too close to home

It often hard to prise Elias away from the Wii but he has not (yet) cost me $1000 (or £ for that matter) in damages to the LCD. Little close for comfort this story.

Three-year-old's Tennis tantrum - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

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New blog for my techy posts...

Just Too Techy

I realise that alot of my recent posts are a little to techy for the friends and family crowd that this blog is intended for. For instance, I haven't commented on my little boy's birthday, my brothers pictures or even my NEW car. Yes, my lovely new car!!!! (Sorry 'our' lovely new car.)

Therefore I have set up a new blog ("Another one!") called Just Too Techy for where to vent my techiness in a safe place with out being a danger to myself and others.

If still interested in the too-techy nature of some of my blogs recently you can pick up the geek-thought-process there.

Thanks for you time. Normal service will assume... Now!

Luggage server solutions

I remember once whilst working for at my friend Bob's network engineering company that he lugged in a large suitcase sized contraption with a fold out 7" monitor box and a fold down keyboard. It was an late 80s solution for pottering around large main frames between cities in the States and had somehow worked it's way back to the UK with Bob. It ran some flavour of Unix and was incredibly retro. So Of course - in the same way some people have the obsession of using one of the old 90s mobile phone bricks - I fell in love with the thing

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The NextDimension 'Flextop' offering from NextComputing seems at first glance to be along the same lines. SO at first glance of Gearlogs post on the subject I fell in love again. Some seriously juicy performance can got from the box as it has 8 cores (yes! 8!) capacity for 16-24 GB of RAM and 5 X 160GB HDD. The NextDimension Evo HD has a built in screen for pitys sake!

On showing these to my boss he immediately initiated a price hunt for things (I am sooo in the right job). These baby's will facilitate a few DRM and onsite solution senarios no probs.

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Kev's Baby Boy

Kev is a colleague of mine. Today he brought in his brand new baby boy Ben Jonah who is 15 days old. I even got a cuddle... with Ben that is. Congrats, Kev!

Chow cooking site

A recent discovery for me has been Chow.com. I really like the useable inteface and recipes and food news and quite a lot of things about this site. The videos are short and informative. I think I'm going to become a regular visitor.

One thing I enjoyed was when I signed up there is a small section within which answer a number of questions that tell about your tastes and a little bit about who you are. I was surprised that I had an answer for most of them, but also that I found myself really enjoying the thinking about the questions. It made me realise that I really enjoy cooking and don't do enough of it. Cooking for enjoyment can be somethign that is so easily lost.

Nikki does most of the cooking in our house, but I have often wanted help out with this task, but find that in the stress of the moment I have no idea what to cook or, more importantly, what to do with the ingredients that we have to hand. So Nikki usually ends up preparing our meal.

I have often wondered if I added to my repertoire of meals I could help out a bit more.

We have experienced that 'Quick Meals' are no better and take no longer that cooking from stratch most of the time. But I would also like to learn how to cook things that take a bit longer. Especially Bread and Roast Meat...