Foul Writer’s World

Dan over at Flip Side Coin has just released his book. The book details the the year he and his wife spent out in Uganda as part of VSO service.

Dan is a Tech. Writer with amazing talent and from following his antics through his blog i’m sure that the book will be a great read. Can’t wait to get hold of my copy.

Well WordPress 2.7.1 didn’t last long for me. I’ve now upgraded to the latest release.

I’m really liking the automatic upgrade feature. Makes life so mush easier.

News from this week.

• Microsoft removes IE 8 from Windows 7 shipping in EU.
• EU still hungry for Microsoft cash and decide to go to court anyway
• The end of Twitter and the world was avoided this week, when twitpocalypse came to nothing except if your a Apple user.
• Live Search rebranded as Bing.com to take on Google
• Hopes of many are dashed in Iranian elections and cause widspread discontent
• MadCap release Flare v5. I’ll be doing a review of the changes once I’ve spent more time with it
• FIA / FOTA war of 2009 is intensifying as the FIA continually push car manufacturers further and further away from Formula 1 (The FIA should just get rid of Mad Max Mosley, it would solve so many problems)
• Is Twitter’s dominance at microblogging is under threat from Google?

Finally some movement on the documenting API stuff on a wiki. We have decided the approach, the process and how it is going to work. We have also narrowed down the possible wikis to:

• Confluence
• MindTouch Deki

Both offer good web based editing and have the optional extras we need. Now, I just need to come up with a format for the older content that everyone is happy with.

I’ve been thinking of something like this:

For example:

Anyone got any other suggestions?

I have 2 house cats or as I prefer to refer to them "rats". They are a ~3 year old male monster, who is big for his age and breed and a ~2.5 year old female who is so petite that she is almost half the others size. They go by the name Kiri for the male and Whiskey for the female.

Like most cats they spend approximately 20 hours of the day asleep. Hence the rather drowsy looking pictures above. With the remaining 8 hours of the day eating or fighting. Both have amazingly different personalities. Kiri, loves to be the center of attention, but is rather timid to try new things. Whiskey however, hates to be around people and only comes to people for comfort when she is tired and wants some love. Whiskey is certainly the more adventurous of the 2 and many times have we found her sneaking a peak in the neighbours apartment by putting her head through an open window.