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It's A Girl!

Baby Sophia entered the world at 3.59am on Sunday January 22nd, a petite 6lb 9oz and angelic beyond the comprehension of either of her parents.

The little darling is happy, healthy and outrageously cute. Her hobbies include pooing, sleeping, sucking her fingers (each in succession, to determine which is the most tasty) and just sitting back observing her crazy parents while they flutter about trying to figure out what to do (luckily the staff at Mercy Women's Hospital have been unbelievably helpful and supportive).

Mum is doing amazingly well considering the toll that a natural delivery takes on a woman's body. All of us are due to come home tomorrow (I've just popped back to have a shower, grab a few items and placate the demands of relatives for photos, photos and more photos).

A blow-by-blow commentary, all the statistics plus more photos to come soon. These snaps should suffice until then.

Update: The little wriggle pot has written her own version of the events of the day. Kim's is still to come, in its own inimitable style and detail.

Tags: baby, aquarius, birth, cuteness, cutie pie, wriggle pot

Logo Theft, Domain Theft and Booty Theft

This made me chuckle. MSN Spaces, Microsoft's foray into the blogging world, not only uses a logo that very closely resembles a popular Linux distribution (the operating system that poses the greatest threat to their monopoly of the desktop PC market), but an easily-confused domain for the popular blogging service takes the unwary visitor to a site containing (considerably explicit) adult content.

The logo inspiration was first spotted last year. Compare the MSN Spaces logo below with that of Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution that prides itself in taking the once notoriously complicated operating system and packaging it as "Linux for human beings".

Additionally, the domain Microsoft have chosen for the MSN Spaces service, spaces.msn.com, is not the most intuitive. Sometimes when companies launch an online service, they purchase related domain names in order to prevent people from capitalising on mistyped URLs. I guess Microsoft missed out on the msn.spaces.com domain (warning: contains material that even I consider offensive, and I have a higher tolerance level than most people). Is that what you call karma?

I've deemed the site too offensive to link to; you'll have to copy and paste it yourself if you want to explore.

Oh, and would you like a butt-plug with that?

Tags: Microsoft, MSN Spaces, Ubuntu, Linux, logo

It's Curtains for my Interior Decorating Career

I live in an age of convenience, and as a result I expect everything I buy to be pretty much plug-and-play. This includes all the little things that you have to buy to take a house and turn it into a home.

Take curtains, for instance.

Here's what annoys me about curtains. You have to:

1) Iron them. What the hell? I haven't ironed a shirt since my last job interview, and before then I hadn't ironed one since my previous job interview a couple of years ago. There are fabrics (I think it's called GloWeave) that don't require ironing, they are naturally wrinkle-free. That's the way it should be. To iron a shirt is a hassle. A curtain is, like, 20 times the surface area of a shirt. It's big, and I don't wanna iron it. The haberdashery industry needs to take a leaf out of men's fashion.

2) Pleat them. I mean honestly! I expect to be able to take them out of the packet and hang them up, but noooooo. You have to work out all these measurements, and then pull some strings at the top and tie them at the right place, and then space the pleats out and, ugh, it's just all too much work. I understand that this is to take into account different size windows and stuff, but that's what different sized curtains are for! When I buy a shirt I don't want to have to adjust the sleeves or the collar or take up the bottom to be the right length -- I just want to buy the right size in the first place!

And don't even start me on fixing the curtain rod to the wall.

Tags: curtains, plug-and-play, handyman, haberdashery, shirts

Holiday Distraction

Hello everyone. My name is Matthew and I'm addicted to Jawbreaker. See if you can beat my high score of 1572.

Tags: jawbreaker, JavaScript, game