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“I’m not dead”, as I believe these ‘more than a month of silence’ posts are expected to start; but a combination of demotivation, work, illness and life contrived to leave this site devoid of new content for far longer than normal.

So to make it up to both of my readers, here is a general round-up of [almost] everything I’ve got going on at the moment.

London

Last weekend the family travelled down to London to visit some old friends we knew BC (Before Children). Although the weather could have been better, it at least provided Alice with her first trip on the Underground, an experience she loved (“I’m going to hold on here… now I’m going to hold onto this pole… now I’m going to sit here… I almost fell over then!”) much to the amusement of our fellow travellers.

Braving the enormous crowds around the National Fashion Week marquees, we took the kids round the Natural History Museum (dinosaurs, grrr…) and then to a restaurant – there are some photos on Flickr as well.

Web 2.0 design

Amid the general gushing and marvelling at Veerle’s recent redesign, some of the comments in her launch post struck me as a bit odd. Remarks like “One of the few Web 2.0 designs that actually stands out from the rest” seem to want to reduce the Web 2.0 concept to a series of design decisions or whether a site has rounded corners or not; to me, 2.0 is community and open data, design doesn’t come into it.

Perhaps some people took Veerle’s tongue-in-cheek post title a little too seriously.

Writer

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing recently, wondering why I don’t care about films as much as I used to. That should change – more on that later, though.

Genuine Regex replicas

I’m building a little web app to help coders debug their regular expressions, when I can find the time in between ‘proper’ work. It will be my first project using the Prototype Javascript library to its full extent; perhaps I’ll have an invite-only beta phase as well for extra 2.0 points… ;)

Pox’d

Finally, this week we had our first proper childhood illness – Emily has chickenpox. She’s milking the whole experience though; sat on the sofa under her blanket, ordering mummy to fetch drinks and DVDs, all she needs now is a little bell to ring for attention. The other two are not showing signs of picking it up just yet, but I’m sure this is just the start of a catalogue of illness we’ll have to deal with and/or mop up over the next decade or two.

Aren’t kids great?

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