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Frankie, Week 1

Friday, 26th October, 2007

Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. What a week, this is where we’re at:

Born 18th October 2007, 1252hrs, 7lbs 9oz. Waters broke 3 days previously and induction was required to chivvy things along. Jaundiced, so had a couple of days light therapy. All fine and raring to get home but then the little chump’s temperature starting dancing around the 38-39°c mark which was quite a bore. This has subsequently settled but has now dropped to 34-35°c. Yesterday she developed a little rash but this seems to have disappeared as of a few hours ago. The little monkey is on both antibiotics and anti-virals. The neo-natal unit at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital just off the top of Tottenham Court Road had her in an incubator for a couple of days but Kate and her have now been given a private room. Kate’s as great as ever, were both just frustrated not being able to get home.

I will no doubt blog a lot and take an inordinate amount of phot of our offspring. Coo. You know that despite my nails exterior I’ve always really been as soft as a marshmallow; wrapped around her little finger I’m not unlikely to be. Supposedly all new parents say this, but, and I’m being totally objective here, this little bundle of joy that we have produced is the most perfect, cute, lovely being ever. Fact.

A select bunch of the week’s photos:

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Photos on Site Sorted At Last

Saturday, 13th October, 2007

At long last, I’ve sorted out phot on the site after a large gap with nothing up. I’ve hunted high and low to find some blog imaging software that I’m happy with. These are the ways I could have gone but dismissed them. In order of the next most likely to be used:

Gallery2 through WPG2: Was looking great until I saw how heavy and slow it was. Also, as he name suggests, it’s embedded, so it’s just doesn’t slip in neatly to the blog, themes were overiding my css, content pages distorted my theme, far from perfect.
YAPB: I just didn’t get it. It looked nice on a couple of examples I found out there but somehow the UI wasn’t intuitive enough to grab me into using it.
Adobe CS2/ Dreamweaver: Been there done that, not fit for this purpose. I need everything proper-automated and integrated within the blog. These 2 are too generic in their themed designs, I want the ability to easily make changes where needs be, and again has to blog software related.
Coppermine: A mess, no thanks.
Flickr / Picasa: wanted to keep it personal and ‘in-house’.

So from now on there should be regular photo updates. Am off out, camera in hand…

Filed under: Geek, Photos