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Max? No – me at 7 months!  My Mum sent this through last week – at least this shows that the milkman isn’t Max’s father! lol!

Amuse yourself for 5 minutes with this.

If you get it right he can look like The Man from Atlantis

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It’s been almost a week and a lot has happened (although it’s probably all boring for anyone but us )

The weekend was busy with a friend around for dinner on Friday nite. I finished a quick-start, week-long diet that night (14 lbs lost!) as well so no nice pasta dinner for me 🙁 Saturday we visited the same friend at her place and I checked all her fuses (one had blown and they are those old wired type and too far up the wall for her to reach safely) That night we had the 30th birthday party of a friend Larry (Laraine) and the theme was 70’s A great time was had with some truly atrocious clothing and pretty scary music during the night!

We got home about 00:30 and as Max hadn’t had a feed all night we got him up to feed him and got to bed about 02:00. 07:00 and it was up again to feed the little monster and then out for brunch at a new cafe that has opened up just down the road. Kai in the Bay was a huge disappointment with coffee very mediocre and the food overpriced for the small portions offered. It’s a shame really as the location is great and it’s within easy walking distance 🙁 Oh well, you live and learn……

After postponing last week, Deb and I got together on Tuesday morning for a coffee. She’s a lovely lady and conversation covered all sorts of topics from pMachine to blogging to life in Wellington to babies, birth and bottle feeding. A nice time and hopefully it’ll happen again at some stage.

On the Max front the big news is that he’s started to pull himself up onto his knees when he’s in his cot!  Leave him sitting there and he’ll be up and smiling over the rail in no time

Job wise I had a second, face-to-face interview today with a large international company – yay! Unfortunately I think I could have done a lot better – boo!  I’ll hopefully get some feedback in the next day or two……….

I use it mainly for my own amusement but thought that I would let you know that I have increased the number of lines used in the quote of the the day section on the left by about 300% I thought they were repeating a bit too often

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Well another 104 emails generated by the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus in my inbox overnight 🙁 The funny thing is they only start coming in about 19:00 local time so that must be when PC’s get turned on either in the US or UK.

It is now officially the fastest spreading virus ever! so that makes me feel a bit better The one good thing about the ones received last night is that they all had the payload stripped so instead of having 104 emails @ 72KB each I had 104 emails @ 1KB each – much better!

Also I’m off to meet Deb in town for a coffee today My first fellow blogger that I’ll get to meet face to face!

You know that sound that old people make when they are sucking and slurping on their false teeth?

That’s exactly the sound that Max has started to make as he experiments with his teeth lol!

What is it with me and the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus!  I see that it was only discovered on the 18th and last night I received over 100 emails with it attached!! At 74KB per attachment I’m glad I’m not on dial-up

Watch out people and update your virus definitions! 

If you are looking at this using IE6 then you’ll be able to read it (probably) If you are using Mozilla or Opera that you might be able to kind of see this text somewhere on the screen……….

All I’m using is CSS and want a (I thought) fairly easy layout.

A 700px wide header, centered and 700px wide image in it.  Just below that a 700px wide container centered with 20px padding. Inside that a white box with 2 columns in it – a 150px wide menu on the LHS and the rest for content.

I can get it to work with just a tiny test CSS file (in IE) see this picture – using this CSS

Can I get it to work in anything other than IE or once I put my blog data in – can I f*ck!!

Any ideas?????

Update 11:30pm: OK – I’ve changed the way I do stuff and it works under IE6 and Opera 7 (at least on my PC) Still doesn’t work under Mozilla as supposedly it’s the only browser that nests divs “properly” For all you Mozilla users out there I’ll look at it tomorrow……….