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Someone on london.pm was looking for this. Someone found. I want to keep it for those needy moments.
- Picture yourself near a stream.
- Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
- No one but you knows your secret place.
- You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called "the World".
- The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
- The water is crystal clear.
- You can easily make out the face of the person you're holding underwater.
I want this
I need to do a thinkgeek shop again.
I appear to be doing some more of it. Off to the Netherlands next month to do my first onsite course for LT. I'm quite pleased to discover that I'm not actually terrified of teaching a course for the first time whilst doing an onsite for the first time. Sounds like fun. At least it's a perl course.
I'm not the world's most experienced windows user these days. I have to use XP at work. It hurts. It's fiddly. Why?
Now.. I was coping ok until I tried to search for a file. I wanted a search dialog. Why did I get a fucking puppy?
So, it was Owen's third birthday a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was time I uploaded a picture or two of the occasion. Of course, it was my 41st birthday the day before which is vaguely scary. I took Owen to a birthday party yesterday and met someone one year older than me with a 20yr old daughter who has a two year old...
Anyway, this is owen at his birthday party with the train cake he's been coveting for months (that train is sugar icing and he ate it). And here's the fireman's costume that makes him oh *so* happy.
Yesterday, Learning Tree approached me about teaching another course for them. This is good. It's an XML course which is even better. Whilst I was wandering around the LT intranet I looked at that 'want ads' section and saw that they're recruiting for an SQL programming course as well. Of course, it requires Oracle skills that I'm seriously rusty on. So... I think I might take the Learning Tree basic Oracle course.
Of course, that makes me wonder how much an LT course costs if you're an instructor. I'm rather pleased to discover that LT lets instructors do five courses per year for free. Sensible people...
This article is the best explanation I've seen yet of why I find java applications seriously odd to use a lot of the time.
http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface-design/
one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/939f/
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all 'hues' in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
