Most people tell you it’s one of there first words, and once they’ve learnt it, it’s all they say, but up until now Daisy hasn’t being saying no. We’ve been putting it down to our super parenting style, and the fact we don’t say no a lot to Daisy, when Daisy is destroying the house we are much more inclined to say… “Why don’t you play with X instead?” which on the whole works.

Yesterday Daisy discovered the power of No, more precisely she discovered how cool it is to shake your head at people. I fear it’s all downhill from here.

As promised some pictures from my walk today..

The City center in miniature, the light bits are not built yet(paradise street)

Anglican cathedral

the Purple lamb banana.

Nice little walk around town for lunch, although it is still much, much colder than it looks out the window.

I took a walk down the to the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post building, because they’ve got a big model of Liverpool city centre on show in the atrium, it’s 5m * 4m and it is very impressive. I’ve taken some photies (because I have a habit of carrying my camera with me), and I’ll put one or two up here later (because I don’t carry the camera lead).

On my way back, dodging the road works, I got some nice piccies of the superlambbanana, all purple this time. I think it’s the council colours and not Fathers4Justice, but only because of the little 08 logo on the tail (unless Fathers4Justice have become an official partner).

This week I will be mostly coding.

Work is a funny thing at the moment, I have a huge workload lined up, infact we have already pushed some things into next year. However because of budgets, hardware, and consultants, I’m currently in a little bit of a lull: we’re planning to change quite significantly how our Virtual Learning Environment (blackboard) integrates with our student system (oss), but before we can do that we have to get the new servers to run the new version. We are also getting our student system (oss again) to work better with our domain (Active Directory) but that is being done in conjunction with a consultant, who is in and out all the time, doing other things.

This coupled with a budgetary issues slowing other projects down (we are just working out what to spend our money on), means that I have taken it upon myself to rewrite some code this week. It’s not critical that it be redone, after all everything is currently working, but it’s a bit slow and the error messages aren’t great. I am usually a great believer in “if it ain’t broken…”, but I’ll probably not get a chance to look at this code* for another 18 months, So if I don’t do it now, I’ll just have to live with the slow naff messages, and that might drive me a bit mad.

*code, programming stuff that makes the computer do what you want; or a close approximation. For a real nerdy example of some code, take a look at these, maps of old atari game code. they’re quite cool.

I’m worried that it’s all got a bit to weighty in the blog recently. Not weighty in-terms of issues, after all we still post about family trees, and silly news, but most of the posts seem quite significant, gone are all the totally insignificant posts about my breakfast, what colour my socks are (OK we never posted these things).

In hindsight, I think it was the email mailing list bit that made me all self-conscious. Somehow knowing that what I type was going to arrive in people’s email made me feel more responsible, I hate all the email clutter I get, I’m not to keen on all those ‘have you seen this silly thing’ office email I get, (although it should be noted people who only do this sparingly do often find very cool things; Chris) so the idea that I would in effect be sending emails saying, look my socks are blue today,was a bit offensive.

Anyway, you may have noticed (and probably wonder what’s happened if you use to get them) that the email bit has gone. This is in preparation for putting some type of filter on Daisy’s blog so in theory I shouldn’t be worrying about that any more.

So my new weeks resolution, less significance in the blog; you might see this as a bad thing, after all surely it’s all going to be drivel, well yes, but it’s useful, social historical drivel. Just look back at august 2004, quite a few ‘low value’ posts, but they flesh out my life, looking at them I can get a better picture of what I did then than I can from last months posts.

For the record, I have those black Asda socks with the coloured heels; Ruth pairs them together correctly, because and I quote “I love you more than those other wives, who make there husbands were them odd”.