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Max had his first Christmas yesterday and got to open his first chrissie presents wrapped with special silver crinkly paper! (My Mum knew he would like the paper more than the present )

Mum always throws a mid-winter Christmas dinner and Sunday was the night for this years event.  She goes the whole hog with turkey, bread sauce, crackers – you name it.  This year was a great success and we had to take a present along (not more than $2) and they got numbered and then randomly drawn.  It’s amazing what you can buy for not much money!

All in all a great night and Mum’s digital camera was on hand for the photo’s

PS: As you can see from the Today in History entry it was exactly a year ago today that we told the world that we were going to be parents!  How time flies.

The weather here is atrocious – so of course Jay and I went out and took some photo’s

Waves – and big ones!

Jay just in front of me…….

… NOT!

Mind you I hacked my first pMachine backend file today!

Not a big deal….. I have set up a 26 things site for my friend Jay (look familiar?) and because PM doesn’t have popup comments I had to find a hack to do it. Found popup stuff easily enough but if you use a different page in the popup window PM still loads the standard comments page when you preview or submit the comments – bummer.  I found what I needed to change in the file that contains the commenting backend code OK but it only works for one weblog so that left Jay with a commenting page that didn’t return to itself.  I though I could let it go…….

Anyway long story short – I found a command called elseif and figured that might work – and it did! so now Jay and I both have comment pages the way I wanted them to work.

This is all I had to do – change this:

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

to this (most of this from the web):

if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}



to this:



if($weblog == “26things”) {

$returnto .= “../26things/pop_comments.php”;

} elseif($weblog == “jay”) {

$returnto .= “../../jay/pop_comments.php”;

} else {

$returnto .= get_pref(“comments_page_$weblog”);

}

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In the US there is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra than Alzheimer’s research. This means that by 2020, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Via Erotic blog

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It’s funny how the deaths of strangers affect me (or not) Princess Di died – so what.  Katharine Hepburn leaves this mortal coil – big deal.  I haven’t felt a single flicker of emotion over the death of anyone famous that I didn’t know.

Yesterday, however, came the news that one of Wellington’s homeless people had died. I’ve seen this guy on the streets of our city for as long as I can remember and have always known him as “The Bucket Man” due to his habit of carrying his possessions in a bucket.  He was also well known for having a huge growth on his forehead.  The paper gave up almost half of it’s front page to him yesterday – amazing respect for a homeless person and something that I doubt very much would happen in any other capital city in the world.

What really bought a lump to my throat was the first few paragraphs of this story:

Rob, the man with the growth on his forehead and bedroll under the arm, walked out of his bush hideaway with his birth certificate, bank statement and will, knelt down in the gutter and died.

“It was just so so sad, I could not believe that here was this human being kneeling in the gutter in the pouring rain.”

Why did his death affect me so much or at all for that matter? I have absolutely no idea – maybe it’s just age, maybe it’s the sad but politely dignified way that he went, maybe it’s the fact that Vic and I sat across from him in McDonald’s just a few weeks ago – I really don’t know.

All I can say is that I’m glad I now know his name.

RIP Robert Jones

… 25 to go!

One of the pictures below is the first entry on my 26 things page

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