My laptop has just received its fourth motherboard, in the 11th month of its waranty. While the reliability of this particular machine could be down to bad luck or other factors, you can barely fault the tech support.
Anyway, an engineer is coming again tomorrow to fix it. This time the speakers have broken apparently.
Wednesday 29 October 2008
Tuesday 28 October 2008
Express Morning Delivery
It all happened fast, relatively speaking anyway. In a blur of NHS organisation, I very nearly delivered the package myself.
Despite us being in the hospital for four hours, a midwife could not be persuaded that we were reaching the end of labour (or take the time to check). Still, a head appearing pretty much made the point and then Daniel was born, 2.87kg (6lb5 in old money). All are doing well, and the hard bit begins (for me anyway).
Speaking of NHS organisation, you'd think that there would be a procedure (or at least a checklist, even a well-oiled routine) for something as important and as frequent as childbirth. Either the procedure has radically changed in the last three years, or everyone just makes it up as they go along and somehow things seem to turn out generally OK.
I am determined that this site does not become yet another series of rants, so I'll end by saying that most of the midwives that we encountered were great!
We don't have any plans to come back though.
Despite us being in the hospital for four hours, a midwife could not be persuaded that we were reaching the end of labour (or take the time to check). Still, a head appearing pretty much made the point and then Daniel was born, 2.87kg (6lb5 in old money). All are doing well, and the hard bit begins (for me anyway).
Speaking of NHS organisation, you'd think that there would be a procedure (or at least a checklist, even a well-oiled routine) for something as important and as frequent as childbirth. Either the procedure has radically changed in the last three years, or everyone just makes it up as they go along and somehow things seem to turn out generally OK.
I am determined that this site does not become yet another series of rants, so I'll end by saying that most of the midwives that we encountered were great!
We don't have any plans to come back though.
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Go-faster resistors
I've always known that there is some magic required to get high frequency signals to go down a wire and actually appear at the other end, but for 31 years I have managed to get by by simply knowing that "there is some magic required to get high frequency signals to go down a wire and actually appear at the other end". Usually, a resistor here and there makes it work good enough (I am a software engineer afterall, we do not concern ourselves with such low-level issues...)
Finally, necessity dictated that I needed to actually understand what that magic is.
My thanks to the guys who wrote this site and taught me some transmission line theory.
It seems that what I wanted to do is quite impossible.
Perhaps I'll just stick a go-faster resistor across the terminals and see what happens anyway.
Finally, necessity dictated that I needed to actually understand what that magic is.
My thanks to the guys who wrote this site and taught me some transmission line theory.
It seems that what I wanted to do is quite impossible.
Perhaps I'll just stick a go-faster resistor across the terminals and see what happens anyway.
Saturday 18 October 2008
Outdoor activities
We spent today panting: boobs and pants.
Apparently.
It's about time Jonathan learned to pronounce the letter L.
Apparently.
It's about time Jonathan learned to pronounce the letter L.
Thursday 16 October 2008
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Nothing to add
I have just returned from a business trip to Sweden and yes of course I ended up in the emergency exit seats again.
Despite cutting the end off my finger, having the motherboard in my laptop die the middle of a presentation, I'm relieved that my family has not yet received a new addition.
Despite cutting the end off my finger, having the motherboard in my laptop die the middle of a presentation, I'm relieved that my family has not yet received a new addition.
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