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When things go bump in the night

7 May 2010 by Mike250, No Comments (119 views)
When things go bump in the night

Just a few days ago I woke unexpectedly in the middle of night when I heard commotion and fuss nearby. Barely coherent I was able to determine two things: that Jenifer was at our bedroom window yelling at something and that the time read 1:30am. My initial reaction was that Jenifer was having a bad [...]

Fun Tech Stuff for November

11 November 2008 by Mike250, 5 Comments (438 views)

I’m going to try and post some fun tech gadgets I’ve played with or am playing with recently and give a little write-up of each. Lately I’ve been a bit more obsessed than normal with trying to get all the stuff I like to look at on one page. This could be via iGoogle, MyYahoo! [...]

Google Maps Street View

7 August 2008 by Mike250, 1 Comment (554 views)

Has finally made it to my neck of the woods. I’ve played with it before; it was released in the USA in 2007 for only a handful of major cities. It was fun to “drive” around places I had never been before but I have to say it’s even more fun to “drive” around places [...]

The petrol price debate

30 May 2008 by Mike250, No Comments (252 views)

Time to get it right; just did the maths. Had a nice debate about fuel costs with one of the engineering guys Bryan, he’s driving to Austin Texas to live there (and working remotely like I do). Fuel price came up… Outside right now it is $4.11 a gallon We are paying $5.67 a gallon [...]

Number Three

29 August 2007 by Mike250, 10 Comments (499 views)

We’ve been planning to have a third child, Jenifer researched quite heavily what it takes to have a girl since we have two boys. I won’t go into the details because we don’t even know that it worked and it’s a bit TMI I reckon. Jenifer took some pregnancy tests that returned favourable results but [...]