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Child-proof containers - Journal - Bec (Link)
16 May 2009, 2:23pm
We bought some children's vitamins recently, just to help the girls along a bit, keep them healthier and hopefully ward away some winter colds and flus. Beccy was up early this morning and she got her vitamin and Lizzie's out and they both took them. When Bern told me this I was a bit confused. I went and looked at the container, and sure enough, it has a child-proof lid.
I asked Beccy how she openend it and she said "I read the instructions on the lid, While Pushing Down Turn" and she showed me that while it took a while she was in fact able to get the bottle open. The scary thing is that I doubt she would have worked it out if it wasn't written there.

Google maps - Journal - Web (Link)
16 May 2009, 9:55am
Google maps rocks. I've blogged about it before on the company blog at: The Tech Doctor Blog . This morning I wanted to know how far it was from home to Arizona, USA, so I went to get directions and typed in Lilydale, VIC 3140, Australia and Tempe, Arizona 85281. There 3 modes of transport, Car, public transport and walk. I left it on car. I clicked on Get Directions and was delivered the following map:

Note the direction I've put the red box around noting a partial toll road... That was rather funny, so I decided to change the mode of transport to "by walking".

The first thing I noticed was a warning: "Walking directions are in beta.
Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths." Okay, that may be a fair warning, or is it just a bizzare sense of humour... Then I noticed how long the list of directions was.. Here are some highlights of the trip:

There is a total of 1331 directions all up. Well done to the google maps team for being so thorough.

Kids! - Journal - Family (Link)
05 February 2009, 5:26pm
Beccy didn't do as I asked at dinner, so I said she couldn't have a biscuit after dinner. Lizzy had don't the right thing so she could have one. I chose an extra-large biscuit and asked Lizzie if she would share it with Bec. She agreed so I split the biscuit into 60/40 pieces. Lizzie asked Bec which piece she wanted, but Bec wouldn't decide, so Lizzie chose the biggest piece, and handed it to Bec!

I'm not sure if Bec learned anything, but I learned to love love Lizzie's servant heart all the more.

Mental Overload - Journal - Work (Link)
05 February 2009, 10:26am
I know I've been burning life at both end lately, and for me, some symptoms of that are email box overflowing, and lots of tabs open in Firefox, consisting of half read articles and things I want to look at at some stage. 30-40 tabs can make me mentally groan, and the thought of all that I might lose if they were closed makes me tense.

Bern was using my computer the other day and she accidentally clicked close in Firefox and it popped up the following message:

Okay that's really too many. Time to stop everything and sort...

now that I've blogged it.

Cakes - Journal - Web (Link)
01 January 2009, 7:07pm
In my research on Wordpress plugins I came across this site: Pink Cake Box Wedding Cakes, by none other than Jesse Heap, designer of the PHPlist /Wordpress plugin that partly solved my earlier problem and led me to design my first Wordpress Widget.

They make some stunning looking cakes, even better than my dodgy but loving attempts. :)

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