Thirty five not out
I enjoyed my thirty-fifth birthday over the weekend with a visit to the Brit Oval to watch floodlit Twenty20 cricket.
It was excellent to see Thomas experience trains, the tube and Brazilian women(!) before watching the likes of Ramprakash, Trescothick and Younus Khan do their thing, but it was more than a little odd to realise this was my first live cricket game in around seven and a half years. We're going to have to do this again soon.
Time flies when you're having fun
I think the most painful breed of blog post starts, "I'm sorry I haven't updated this blog in so long...". For me, it has been way too long, but I'm not going to apologise for my disappearance; I'll let my I-refuse-to-sleep-when-you-do son do that when he learns to type.
I'll be back, one day. In the meantime, I went to Canada for a fortnight last month with work: here is a photo of a glacier in Greenland and icebergs in the Atlantic which I was lucky enough to see as we flew farther north to avoid the volcanic ash cloud. Nice.
The Good Go Young
RIP Bacon.
"We didn't realise you were a girl when we gave you that name."
2008 - 2010
You'll be sorely missed, not least by your tank mates, Toasted, Cheese and Sandwich.
Ten weeks of Thomas
Thomas turned ten weeks old earlier this week. Please can somebody kindly explain how the last seventy-odd days have simultaneously felt like ten weeks and ten minutes in duration?
I'm finding looking after a baby is great fun, but like sufferring from permanent jet lag. Luckily, as the weeks roll on, each new one does at least bring a new modicum of method to the lack of sleep madness. Funnily, when Daeng and I moved into our current flat neither of us were overly fond of it's long, thin design but that shape is a God-send now as it allows us to do shifts at seperate ends of the apartment. I'd have probably been fired by now if this hadn't been the case, especially during the first two months.
Earlier today I added some new photos of Thomas to the gallery.
"Twitter privacy madness" or "I'm losing my mind"
What a bizarre, bizarre day! Brushing over the huge problems presented to us by the unfortunate case of a simultaneous fire and flood (wtf?) which took chunks of the UK internet network out - subsequently making my employers unfairly look bad and send the call centre into meltdown, despite the problems being neither our fault or within our control - I'm more than a little confused by a little twitter "following" incident.
Mid-afternoon I noticed I had recieved a small handful of new twitter followers in the space of just a few minutes. This has happened a few times in recent weeks, usually an early clue that one's website is recieving a surge in traffic. Oddly though, this time I recognised one of the names.
The guy is a work colleague, but one I've never met, working in an office thousands of miles and half a dozen timezones away from where I'm sitting now. We'll call him "A". Unable to resist temptation, I sent "A" a quick mail to ask if he was following me because we work together, or because he'd visited my site, oblivious to our meatspace connection. The ridiculously coincidental nature of this episode wasn't passing me by!
"I had no idea you worked here. I followed you because you followed me first."
And then he went on to prove it, stating I'd followed him 90 minutes earlier in the day, at a time when I was firmly in a meeting, away from my (locked) PC and not playing with my iphone.
OK, so now I'm confused. I went racing round twitter's settings and no, there is nothing there about 'auto-following' people, nor is there anything like that in the facebook twitter app or twitterrific. So who is deciding who I follow on my behalf? Is it a bug? Does someone have my password? Or is there something more sinister going on? I'll be very happy to be shown that there is a nice, easy, non-invasive explanation for all this. Anyone? Please?
As for my new twitter followers, don't worry, those looking for Web 2.0 insight get very bored of tales of my son filling his nappy, my wife burning salads or how much I am enjoying Match of the Day, and will soon leave in favour of those who publish worthwhile content. But it's nice to know you're there.
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