Well, given that it is the 1st of January 2006 I guess I am allowed to make a post to my blog now. I can tell you now that breaking the blogging habit for a month is actually quite difficult because you see things that you feel that you just need to tell the world about.
Now for a bit of an update on what has been happening with the Denny clan. On the 14th of December we all jumped on a plane to go up to Queensland to stay with my folks over the Christmas period. They recently added an extension to their house which I had seen when it was partially completed.
The place is now big enough that I am half expecting a cult to come along and buy it and then it’ll only be a matter of months before the tanks roll across the lawn in a Waco-style incident. Actually, the house is on one of the feeder creeks to the Bribie passage so Bella managed to go down and take a swim almost every day with either myself or “grandad”.
It was interesting to see the composition of the water change while we were there. When we arrived there was quite a bit of silt in the water and it was close to fresh due to some recent rainfall in the area. However, over the course of the three weeks to cleared up quite a bit and became quite salty. Bella didn’t like that too much so perhaps it is just as well that we didn’t get out to the beach while we were there – the trip was called off due in part to a mild Asthma attack that I had and also the beaches being closed because of “stingers” – Jellyfish.
We got back to Canberra on Thursday last week and since then we have been doing a bit of a spring (summer?) clean. The weather is just perfect for Redback spiders at the moment and quite a few LARGE ones have taken up residence outside. I spent this morning making out back courtyard safe enough for Bella to play in.
Right now I am sorting through various bits of paper work and trying to figure out what is on the file of unlabeled CD’s sitting on my desk. Its interesting when you uncover e-mail archives from eight years ago and code snippets that you wrote against the “NGWS” SDK that was dropped circa PDC 2000.
Anyway – I’ve queued a few post “ideas” while I was away so I will work through them slowly and post them up. Nothing terribly technical in nature but hopefully it’ll be an interesting enough read.