January 2006 Entries

Still no baby...

Damn this interminable gestation period - will it never end? :) Ah, I shouldn't moan. It's week 38 now, Chris is 'full term' - this means that the baby is fully baked, but we have to leave him to stand for a bit before we can have him. It's a bit frustrating knowing he could turn up any day now, but not knowing when. Not too scared yet. We'll leave that until he arrives - I'm sure when he's lying there looking at me expecting me to look after him, that'll be when the fear'll hit.

posted @ Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:35 PM | Feedback (-104)

Is Don Box a secret Brummie?

Came across this post about the latest preview VB compiler release on Don Box's Blog: Amanda & Co. have a new version of the compiler available for download. Embedded XML, duck typing, and alignment with DLINQ [Via Don Box's Spoutlet] I IM'd Chris about this to ask if she had any idea what 'Duck Typing' was, and she provided the obvious explanation: Don's got a Brummie accent, and he actually means to say 'Duct Taping'. He obviously only puts on the 'merkin accent when he's trying to impress people, but his Indigo-powered VoiceXML-driven XBox controller-based blog-posting software can evidently detect the dialectal nuance...

posted @ Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:17 PM | Feedback (2)