The public musings of a collaboration lifeguard
Archive for January, 2006
Tania @ 5 weeks
02207 days
by Simon Scullion
in Personal
As promised, I’d mention how she measured up.
She had her checkup on Jan 10th if I remember correctly, and in good health. She weighed in at 4.11 kg and measured 55.5cm. So nearly 1.2kg and 6cm in 5 weeks!
Apparently she’s going to be tall and have blue eyes, like her Dad!
Skype 2.0
02209 days
by Simon Scullion
in Internet
I have just upgraded to and made my first call.
This is not a product review, but the sound quality on both ends was excellent, and a 22 minute call from Spain to the UK cost me less than €0.40! Nice!
I know Skype has its critics, regarding proprietry standards and the like, but it just works. Well! More than can be said for a lot of software that costs a hell of a lot more (mentioning no names!).
Tania Scullion Caballero
02210 days
by Simon Scullion
in Personal
We’re a bit late in getting the details to you, but here are Tania’s key data:
- Born: December 6th 2005
- Weight: 3.05 kg (just under 7lb I think)
- Measured: 49.5 cm
That was quite a while ago now, will dig out the report from her checkup at 5 weeks.
Back online…!! Finally!
02214 days
by Simon Scullion
in House
Its been a long time, but finally this week, I managed to sort out my internet access.
Between three engineers who finally turned up, a dodgy installation and Simon being a clown, I was able to connect once again.
Here in Spain we suffer from the old BT problem of a monopoly situation, it is only Telefonica who can get you a phone line at home. It takes them 48hrs max to sign up and install a line for a new customer, but a simple transfer to a new address in the same village takes them 3 months! Anyway, in the end they ran out of excuses and the engineers turned up to get things done, and I ended up with a phone line and ADSL.
Which I went and broke.
I stuffed this all back in the wall and put the lid on, thinking all was hunky dory. Only to try connecting 2 days later and nothing would work. 3 hours of testing led me back to the box only to find two of the cables hanging out!
Anyway, on to more interesting things, seems like ages ago already, but on the 6th of December 2005, we became parents……!! More tomorrow.