Cinnamon

I've often wondered about the US obsession with cinnamon when I'm over there - in particular, my teeth ache just walking past a Cinnabon. It seems I'm not alone in thinking this.

A good day...

You know it's going to be a great day when you're woken up by your daughter shouting: "Daddy, I dropped the dolly in the toilet. It's floating...":-)

Slovenia in the world cup!

On Wednesday, the mighty Slovenia overturned a 2-1 deficit against the mighty Russia by winning 1-0 at Maribor and thereby qualifying for the 2010 World Cup!! Woo-hoo! It was a very exciting game: luckily Jure had told me which forums to read to find the "magic" URLs that were streaming SLO-2 on the internet, so I could watch the game.

Hopefully Slovenia won't meet England in the tournament proper:-)

Outlook goodies

I'm a big fan of Outlook; it's one of our best apps. I just came across this wonderful whitepaper entitled "Best practices for Microsoft Outlook 2007". I got a lot out of reading it, and have implemented some of the tips already. Maybe you'd find it interesting too; even if you don't run Outlook?!

Awesome

I was feeling a little low today for some reason. Some of the observations here cheered me:-) [For example, #864]

5 Megapixel office

I've just been lucky enough to get hold of a third screen for my office. So I now have 3600*1600= 5,760,000 pixels to fill! It looks like this:

It really is very nice, and as one would expect it takes a little getting used to. Unlike with two screens, I'm now able to have my main focus always in the central screen, and use the other two for more peripheral activities. As you can see above, the central screen has a big emacs buffer (with OCaml code in it!) and the side screens have command prompts and outlook, along with misc other things. You can also see in the bottom right of the right-most screen that I'm running the webcam app so I can see who's at my door *before* turning round. (what a geek!)

Real Jo Tunmer

I forgot a link to Jo's website in an earlier post. Oops! Here it is.

We love Jo's art, so check it out!

Little Boots

Our household is very keen on Little Boots. We love her album Hands. The girls do very impressive versions of Meddle and Earthquake - normally singing along to my phone whilst we're waiting for the bath to fill! So, we were very excited to hear a few months ago that she was going to be playing the Junction in Cambridge.

We went last week. I'm happy to say that she's even better live than recorded. It was a fantastic gig - she's enormously talented and her songs work very well in a live context. It was essentially a huge disco! Victoria also wore some kicking outfits!