Dear Clair, Livvy and Will,
I hope you are all ok and you are behaving yourselves and helping Mummy. Well Day 3 is almost finished, hope you are adding your stickers to the Daddy Calendar.
Today I’ve spent most of the day in the office. The weather is still very good, and has been around 21 degrees Celsius all day. Very warm for us, but for the locals it is their winter. On the drive into work I see many people wearing thick coats or jumpers and it’s very unusual as this would be t-shirt weather for me.
Dear Clair, Livvy and Will,
Today has been spent mostly travelling again. I have flown from Dubai to Delhi. We arrived in Delhi around 9.15am which would be about 3.45am where you are. Just as Will woke up I believe. Now Will, please can you help Mummy by not waking up in the night.
I spoke to Mummy last night and she tells me that Livvy has eaten all her dinner and has helped. That is really good and I hope you can do it as well for the rest of the week.
Dear Clair, Livvy and Will,
Just wanted to give you an update on what I’ve done so far. I’m currently sitting in the Emirates Business Lounge at Dubai International Airport.
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Reaktions is a free and highly addictive game of speed and intelligence.
A simple test of your reactions. In Classic mode, touch the square before it disappears, the further you progress, the less time the square shows.
In Advanced mode, not only do you need to use your fast reactions, you need to remember which shapes give you points, which deduct points and which ones end your game straight away. Again, the further you progress the less time you get to react.
Whether you play in Classic mode or Advanced mode, you will need to show great speed and memory to build up your score.
I am due to go to India with work on the 23rd January 2011. I will blog my antics here. This is mainly for my wife and kids, but anyone else who is interested is quite welcome to read.
So finally after getting round to getting my Developer’s Certificate, and learning Titanium by Appcelerator I have my first App released. It’s called Oh Christmas Three, and it has three apps in one. A Christmas Countdown, an Advent Calendar and a Santa Tracker.
It’s available to download now on iTunes and is only 59p. You can download the LITE version, which is free but contains advertising. Continue Reading →
Next week it will be Will’s first birthday. Will was born August 31st 2009, with severe bilateral talipes. The talipes were picked up on my wife’s 20 week scan.
Scan’s can be one of the most exciting times in a pregnancy, finding out all about your baby, seeing your baby for the first time. It is also one of the most nerve wracking times in your life, as the sonographer checks to see everything is ok with your little one. You dread the worst, especially when they tell your wife to empty her bladder as they need to check the legs in more detail. Even worse when they switch the machine off, turn round to you and say “I’m so sorry”. Continue Reading →
Ok this is going to be hard. I’m a self confessed Apple fan boy. Steve Jobs is God. Yet I’m a web developer that has been using Adobe products for over 10 years. So this spat between the two companies is a difficult one to judge in my eyes. Continue Reading →
I love Coldfusion, there I said it. I really do. I’ve been using it now for over 9 years and I’ve made a career out of it. I’ve worked at a huge US financial institution for over eight years in the UK using it and pushed and pushed for them to continue to use it when they’ve looked at alternative solutions. I moved to an IT ‘cloud computing’ company and managed their website using Coldfusion, building great functionality and the company is going from strength to strength and is a major player in the industry. As I said, I’ve made a career out of it. My knowledge and expertise of Coldfusion has put me in roles which have helped me pay for the wedding when I married my amazing wife. It’s helped me bring up and and look after my beautiful children. Pay for an amazing house we live in, and give me a good standard of living.
Yet over the last few years, I have started to worry, and it comes down to this simple statement.
I am still here…. As you may know I have decided this year to complete a number of runs to raise money for the Steps Charity. Steps is the charity that has supported us with William after he was born with Bilateral Talipes. So to give something back to Steps, I have decided to complete a number of runs this year with the aim to compete in a full marathon in 2011.
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