Jasper's Soccer

Jasper has started playing Soccer every Sunday morning for about an hour and a half. It’s called “Seal Pony Soccer” and consists of a range of drills and then a 3 or 4 aside soccer match for about 20 – 30 minutes at the end. He was very keen to

Jasper's Soccer

Jasper has started playing Soccer every Sunday morning for about an hour and a half. It’s called “Seal Pony Soccer” and consists of a range of drills and then a 3 or 4 aside soccer match for about 20 – 30 minutes at the end. He was very keen to

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Jasper's Soccer

Jasper has started playing Soccer every Sunday morning for about an hour and a half. It’s called “Seal Pony Soccer” and consists of a range of drills and then a 3 or 4 aside soccer match for about 20 – 30 minutes at the end. He was very keen to

House painting

Just before Easter, Greg started painting our house for us. Here he is on Day three. From HomeStuff In just over 10 days he’s managed to achieve all this. He has one day left to go, so the whole outside will be repainted by tomorrow. From HomeStuff We’ve

House painting

Just before Easter, Greg started painting our house for us. Here he is on Day three. From HomeStuff In just over 10 days he’s managed to achieve all this. He has one day left to go, so the whole outside will be repainted by tomorrow. From HomeStuff We’ve

House painting

Just before Easter, Greg started painting our house for us. Here he is on Day three. From HomeStuff In just over 10 days he’s managed to achieve all this. He has one day left to go, so the whole outside will be repainted by tomorrow. From HomeStuff We’ve

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House painting

Just before Easter, Greg started painting our house for us. Here he is on Day three. From HomeStuff In just over 10 days he’s managed to achieve all this. He has one day left to go, so the whole outside will be repainted by tomorrow. From HomeStuff We’ve

Musings

Name your trend — Twitter trends in a friendly way

While mucking around with Twendly, it became quickly apparent that there are numerous different types of trends. Some come around with surprising regularity, others flash and then disappear, while some just hang around and won’t go away. For a bit of fun, I thought I’d try pick out

Musings

Working with Google Appengine and a basic Twitter Bot

By now, some of you who follow me on Twitter will probably know that I made a Twitter Bot called Twendly that tweets the current trends on an hourly basis. For various reasons, mostly because I thought it would be fun, I decided to do this using Googles AppEngine. AppEngine

Musings

Hidden signals in Social Software

The book, The Wisdom of the Crowds, by James Surowiecki talks about the aggregation of information in groups and how this can make better decisions than individuals within certain bounds. The ubiquitous nature of social software, the number of people using it and the degree to with which we become

More Monty

Monty continues to grow and do well. He got snake mite last week (possibly from the wood we put in which it turns out hadn’t been treated by the pet store) so has had a couple of treaments (more or less spraying his enclosure with a mite spray then

More Monty

Monty continues to grow and do well. He got snake mite last week (possibly from the wood we put in which it turns out hadn’t been treated by the pet store) so has had a couple of treaments (more or less spraying his enclosure with a mite spray then

More Monty

Monty continues to grow and do well. He got snake mite last week (possibly from the wood we put in which it turns out hadn’t been treated by the pet store) so has had a couple of treaments (more or less spraying his enclosure with a mite spray then

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More Monty

Monty continues to grow and do well. He got snake mite last week (possibly from the wood we put in which it turns out hadn’t been treated by the pet store) so has had a couple of treaments (more or less spraying his enclosure with a mite spray then

Camping in the Darebin Parklands

As many of you will know, Karina is the Vice-President of the Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) that works to improve the parklands that we overlook in our house. One of the things she is very passionate about has been having lots of activities to get kids involved and interested. For

Camping in the Darebin Parklands

As many of you will know, Karina is the Vice-President of the Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) that works to improve the parklands that we overlook in our house. One of the things she is very passionate about has been having lots of activities to get kids involved and interested. For

Camping in the Darebin Parklands

As many of you will know, Karina is the Vice-President of the Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) that works to improve the parklands that we overlook in our house. One of the things she is very passionate about has been having lots of activities to get kids involved and interested. For

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Camping in the Darebin Parklands

As many of you will know, Karina is the Vice-President of the Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) that works to improve the parklands that we overlook in our house. One of the things she is very passionate about has been having lots of activities to get kids involved and interested. For

Skirt Making

Karina got a new sewing machine for Christmas and the kids have been very excited about it after they were let loose for an afternoon with a spare piece of fabric. I think Ella tried every one of the 50 different stitches. Grandma saw this interest and so when we

Skirt Making

Karina got a new sewing machine for Christmas and the kids have been very excited about it after they were let loose for an afternoon with a spare piece of fabric. I think Ella tried every one of the 50 different stitches. Grandma saw this interest and so when we

Skirt Making

Karina got a new sewing machine for Christmas and the kids have been very excited about it after they were let loose for an afternoon with a spare piece of fabric. I think Ella tried every one of the 50 different stitches. Grandma saw this interest and so when we

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Skirt Making

Karina got a new sewing machine for Christmas and the kids have been very excited about it after they were let loose for an afternoon with a spare piece of fabric. I think Ella tried every one of the 50 different stitches. Grandma saw this interest and so when we

Restumping continues

The re-stumping continues quite quickly. As I type this (lunch break working from home) the Building Inspector is outside checking off the stump holes and the new concrete stumps which are now largely in place suspended from the bearers.It’s all kind of “backwards” from what I expected. Basically

Restumping continues

The re-stumping continues quite quickly. As I type this (lunch break working from home) the Building Inspector is outside checking off the stump holes and the new concrete stumps which are now largely in place suspended from the bearers.It’s all kind of “backwards” from what I expected. Basically

Restumping continues

The re-stumping continues quite quickly. As I type this (lunch break working from home) the Building Inspector is outside checking off the stump holes and the new concrete stumps which are now largely in place suspended from the bearers.It’s all kind of “backwards” from what I expected. Basically