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MaFt

Rollercoaster

These last two days have been a rollercoaster of mixed emotions.

Yesterday morning we found out that a good friend of Mrs-MaFt and myself had died suddenly and very unexpectedly. She was only 31 and has left behind a husband and 3 young boys (11 weeks, 3 years and 5 years). We still can't really believe it but have to try and get on.

This morning was the total opposite as it was the extraction of Mini-Mrs-MaFt - a beautiful little girl weighing in at 6lb 8oz. Mini-MaFt loves her to bits (which is a good thing!). Pictures below - I'm tired and off to bed!

Fact For The Day

Dinosaurs and humans lived on Earth at the same time.

[please note that this post worked better when the images linked correctly... have a read of this to see them: http://www.creationists.org/mananddinos.html]

How else can you explain the images on these Inca burial stones from 500-1500AD?



Or this Aboriginal painting from Queensland



Or a Buddhist temple carving in Cambodia from around 1200AD:



If dinosaur bones were only din the last 200 or so years then how come there re some damn-good depictions of them knocking about from waaaaaaaaaaay before then? The simple answer: they lived only thousands of years ago as opposed to millions and at the same time as humans!

MaFt

Makka Pakka

Makka Pakka, Makka Pakka, Makka Pakka!

Eh?! What? You obviously haven't seen 'In The Night Garden' - created by the very same mentalists who did the Teletubbies.

Mini-MaFt likes it but hasn't quite grasped how to say 'Makka Pakka' yet, instead it comes out as 'Paki' which he shouts at the top of his voice... Living in Bradford, I'm now scared to take him out of the house!!!


Makka Pakka

MaFt

Due Date

Well, I feel like David Beckham at the moment. We have a date for the Caesaeaeaserereasn Section (lots of problems with Mini-MaFt's birth so we've been told Mrs-MaFt can have a CS again!) - it's really weird cos the consultant said to us "so, is the 26th April OK for you?" but I was expecting them to just give us a date! I can make it to the big football game after all!

So, Mini-Mrs-MaFt shall be extracted ('born' doesn't seem to describe the process effectively) a week on Thursday. We just need to decide on a name so I can get their domain name and website sorted a-la Mini-MaFt's site.

See ya

MaFt

Older, But Not Much Wiser

I am now 27... In fact I've been 27 since last Tuesday. I feel older, but I wish I was a bit wiser!

MaFt

Reboot

Nearly six years later I've finally got around to editing our wedding video. It's taken a while but it's now ready. Why's it taken so long? Well, originally Brother-T was going to edit his video along with another video tht was made of the wedding but he never had time to get it done - so we just had both recordings running back to back on VHS. Now I have the technology I've been able to rip the original tapes onto the computer and mix the two tapes together... six years later...


Last night, after checking all 1hr 32min 53secs of the video for the second time for any mistakes etc, I decided it was ready for exporting. It was about 11pm so took the decision to leave it all rendering over night as I knew it would take about 8 hours - I could do it quicker but that would involve spending money on a new processor, which would also need a new motherboard to sit in along with new RAM and a new case too... I can't be bothered spending all that just to speed up video rendering!

Anyway, I got up this morning to check it had done it alright and my 'start up windows' were showing. "Great", I thought, "my computer rebooted before it finished". After checking the system logs it turns out that at 3.22am my PC rebooted. The reason? Windows had installed an update and said it needed to reboot in order to complete the installation; it would do this automatically for me if I didn't press a key in the next 15 seconds. Well, Mr Windows XP, at 3.22am how the heck am I supposed to see that when I'm in bed fast asleep? Idiot!

What's the point in having the option ticked for only installing updates when I'm ready if it just goes ahead and does it anyway?! So now I've got to export it all again while I'm doing my work...

Annoyed? You bet!

MaFt