Hazel can roll onto her back all by herself, and can prop herself up on her own arms, so she doesn’t mind being on her front. Great to see her growing up, step by step.
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Hazel rocks. She’s growing up, becoming more interested in the world around her. She’s talking, in her own language. She loves particular songs that we sing at certain times. She’s happy and delightful, a spring of unending joy, so long as you don’t remember the parts where she cries inconsolably for hours on end. One “big d” smile 😀 usually fixes that.
TV’s not good for the young, but I’d love it if we could watch Fraggle Rock together. (ABC2 @ 6pm if you’ve missed that as well.)
Dickson is on a knife edge. At time of writing, 50.01% to the sitting Liberal member. Twelve votes in it with 84% counted. Wow.
Some of the happier news is that my area, Mt Nebo, is about the leftiest place on Earth. We’re by far the leftiest place in the electorate, anyway: 77.68% voted left on a two-party-preferred basis. Next best is around 60% in Bray Park and Strathpine. If you’re really curious, load up this .csv file into a spreadsheet and sort the votes; it shows the 2pp votes by polling place for the whole country.
Sad thing? Over 1600 informal votes, which would have easily swung the result one way or the other. Everyone out there in Dickson who said their vote didn’t make any difference just missed a trick.
Inspired by this page, exploring alternative readable mini-calendars, I’ve produced one. I was surprised that nobody had submitted anything inspired by a rotating perpetual calendar — so I had to make one. The central white part spins around a pin at the centre. There are space savings if they’re needed, but this is 105x105mm.
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Antony Green has cautiously given Labor the election. Channel 9 has given Labor the election with an exclamation mark. It hasn’t been claimed yet, but our champagne is open, flowing, and tasting great.
Quick! Snap up this bargain property in Sydney’s Kirribilli.
Vote. If you’re going to vote like me.
I’d been looking forward to the release of Valve’s The Orange Box for Xbox 360 since, as a long time Mac guy, I’ve never played Half Life 2. Sacrilege, I know, and I do like a good story-based shooter. Had a quick go. Great so far.
A few weeks ago, this review singled out Portal for praise, and Yahtzee doesn’t give praise lightly. So I rented it last night with a view to purchase, and played Portal from start to finish. It’s the best fun I’ve had with a game in ages: clever, rewarding, different, challenging and very, very funny. To know more would ruin the fun, so grab a copy and play it. Rent it just for Portal (360, PC) if you’re not into first person shooters. You won’t shoot anyone and you don’t have any bullets; it’s a first person puzzle.
Portal is not long, but it’s brilliant.
How did I not know about Cut & Paste?
Edit: Well, watching the webcast now and it’s very disheartening to see obviously sub-par entries win over much more accomplished work. Repeatedly. Gah.