Aug 22
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) WWW
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!
Aug 21
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Site News
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……….
Aug 20
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
That’s it – we are going to have to get Max a baby toothbrush! So far we have been cleaning his teeth with baby toothpaste and a small muslin. This has been fine so far and he really likes to suck the cloth afterwards and rinse any leftover t’paste off his teeth. The problem is he seems to really like the taste of the toothpaste and has started chomping down on my finger and it bloody hurts! The wee man has jaws like a croc and teeth like a shark 🙁
He also had his first commercially prepared baby food yesterday. He’s had things like egg custard and baby rice but this was his first “meal” – Watties Pumpkin, Potato and Beef. Vic’s been really good so far and has made all his meals but, frankly, was running out of ideas
I think that for a while Max will have 2 homemade meals and maybe one prepared one per day. At least we can give him a good range of tastes and textures.
Aug 19
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
Well it’s Monday (again!) and the highlight of the weekend had to be the All Blacks taking the Bledisloe cup back off the Aussies. Good on ya boys!
? Whilst looking at other 26things sites I came across Deb’s blog – Slipstream. She’s lives in Wellington and has a fantastically amusing, easy going, words-roll-out-of-your-brain-and-onto-the-screen style of writing that I can only dream about. Check it out.
? If the only carbs or protein you’ve had for three days is a solitary potato don’t, I repeat don’t, go for a run up a big f*cking hill. You will feel as though somebody has come along and given you two strings of wet spaghetti for legs only minutes after leaving home. Just trust me on this, OK
? Damn! I am eating a carrot and typing and I’ve just bitten my inside of my lip….. and I’m bleeding…..ouch!
? Max is becoming more “mobile” by the day. He’s not actually crawling or anything but he’s going from sitting to lying to rolling over with the greatest of ease. I really don’t want to be in this shithole of a flat when he becomes truly mobile. Gotta get me a job and toot-sweet dammit. I had a phone interview the other day which seemed to go OK and the guy said that he’d like to meet me in person……..we’ll see what happens.
That’s about it for now. The last two entries have been bullet points I know but that’s how life feels at the moment – kind of staccato’ish.
Oh and I think I’ve stopped bleeding 
Aug 16
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
? Another POTD at digitalphotocontest.com today – YAY! An extremely set up shot as you can see but a bit of fun none the less
? Hells Pizza’s totally rock! They’ve just (today!) opened up a branch about 200 yards down the road. We had the mordor pizza and some mini samosas and everything was damn yummy!
? Max can now play peek-a-boo with us with him controlling whatever he wants to cover his face – so cute
We also have a feeling that teeth 5 and 6 are on their way through……….
? The Blaster worm seems to be getting around. Some of my blogging friends have been cursed with it and I spent 3 hours on Wednesday night disinfecting my mother’s PC which was also infected. I’m also nipping up to Vic’s mum’s tomorrow to make sure that she’s all up to date. A tricky worm indeed!
Aug 13
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Photography
My 26 things site now actually has 26 things on it at last
That’s that project over with………
Aug 13
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News
OK, it’s hot in the UK at the moment. In fact it’s record breaking hot. 37.9C (100.2F) in London and a UK high of 38.1C (100.6F) in Gravesend, Kent.
I thought this was hot (and it really is) until I read this post from Tom. Tom lives in Phoenix, Arizona and the Walmart sign in town read 118F – That’s 47.7C for crying out loud! How on earth people can be expected to function in this sort of heat is beyond me!
We’re heading for a high of 11C (52F) today with rain and chilly Antarctic southerlies – nice 🙁
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Aug 11
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News
It’s lovely day here in Wellington so we thought we would go for a walk down along the waterfront. The ice cream, espresso and caramel nut sellers were out in force and I couldn’t resist doing this
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