Dale Lane (dalelane)

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1. tired. got a suitably braindead film on DVD - 'Chaos' with Jason Statham and Wesley Snipes. ideal Friday night fodder :-)

   Friday, 29-Aug-08 18:55:34 UTC from web in context

2. amazed at Grace asking why "one" "starts with a 'w' sound like Wednesday" but looks like an "oh" sound. bless the little smartie-pants! :-)

   Friday, 29-Aug-08 18:35:21 UTC from web

3. good: think my web service client code is finally working. bad: test server is shutdown at 4pm, so will have to wait till tomorrow to test!

   Thursday, 28-Aug-08 16:04:57 UTC from web

4. just reminded by @amylane that Faith is 6 months old today. wow... already???

   Thursday, 28-Aug-08 13:16:16 UTC from web

5. really liking soapUI (open source app from soapui.org) for trying out my new web services definitions. very sweet little tool

   Thursday, 28-Aug-08 09:40:34 UTC from web

6. my phone is borked: joystick d-pad permanently stuck on the left. handy if you really want to scroll to the left. pain in the arse otherwise

   Thursday, 28-Aug-08 08:44:01 UTC from web

7. back home after visiting family for the Bank Holiday weekend. thinking about giving Python a try for a new CurrentCost app

   Monday, 25-Aug-08 19:49:37 UTC from web

8. fairly unproductive morning. baby kept us up all night, so feeling fairly braindead today

   Sunday, 24-Aug-08 13:12:56 UTC from web

9. gave Faith her first ever rusk. watching as she tries to work out what to do with it. very funny :-)

   Saturday, 23-Aug-08 15:35:13 UTC from web

10. frustrated with internal work stuff. when we pull together as a team it's amazing to see. other times it's like trying to push water uphill

    Friday, 22-Aug-08 13:38:07 UTC from web

11. meeting wife and kids for lunch - they're coming up to Hursley. one of those times when it's nice to have a kids playground on site :-)

    Friday, 22-Aug-08 10:54:03 UTC from web

12. a web services day today - fun with WebSphere Integration Developer

    Friday, 22-Aug-08 09:29:23 UTC from web

13. wishing OpenCellId had API to delete updates. early bug in my code screwed up this cell (blue dash=update, pin=est. loc) http://poprl.com/ME

    Friday, 22-Aug-08 09:11:24 UTC from web

14. uploading some videos of Grace singing to flickr - http://ping.fm/iVFP0 - they make me smile :-)

    Friday, 22-Aug-08 09:05:15 UTC from web

15. trying to think of something to talk about at BathCamp

    Thursday, 21-Aug-08 12:01:23 UTC from web

16. will be teaching non-techie users to use drupal tomorrow morning. searching for a decent wysiwyg module so I don't have to explain HTML

    Wednesday, 20-Aug-08 19:33:39 UTC from web

17. wondering if Kevin checks my diary first when scheduling the web2.0 sig meetings. *every* time it's at a time when I'm out of the office :-(

    Wednesday, 20-Aug-08 11:31:49 UTC from web

18. heading to kick off meeting for new project. project will be using my old friend, WebSphere Process Server. :-)

    Wednesday, 20-Aug-08 09:48:29 UTC from web

19. giving Bluehouse another try. it's actually quite cool - there are some neat tools in here

    Wednesday, 20-Aug-08 09:38:20 UTC from web

20. "fun" with Tax Credits forms. argh.

    Wednesday, 20-Aug-08 09:30:16 UTC from web