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We have found free wifi in Paris. We just had to pay ?11 for the drinks…

My Dad was visiting last week, and one of the things we did was to go to the new Titanic Building that opened last weekend. Here’s a photo I took of it a few weeks ago:

Basically this is the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which was built in Belfast, so the city is ramping up the hype as much as possible. “This is our year” (or so says the city advertising). So far my two favourite slogans for the Titanic are “She was fine when she left here” and “Built by an Irishman, sunk by an Englishman.” Classic.

Anyway, the Titanic building is actually very very good. Or at least the first third of it was, which was all I got to see before I received a call from Ella’s daycare saying that a tree had fallen down and knocked out the power to their building, and I needed to go get her before the heat all dissipated from the building and they were forced to go into Lord of the Flies mode. So if anybody wants to come visit me, that would be great, because I’d like an excuse to go back and see the rest.

Off topic, here’s a picture of Ella “sleeping” in a cupboard. Maybe somebody will arrive soon to take her away to Hogwarts!

I was listening to Jack FM Vancouver – I like the advertisements. They have funny accents!

Anyway, they were advertising Poutine from Burger King! Is this real? Has anyone tried it? Does it compare to that little French-Canadian cafe on, was it, 4th?

Crazy. Burger King in Australia are busy trying to improve their image with salads and what-not. Burger King in Canada is too busy trying to add French-Canadian dishes to their menu to worry about the health aspect!!

Ella had her first late night trip to the hospital last night, which is possibly even less fun than it sounds. Turned out to be croup, but wow did it come on suddenly. She went to bed with a slightly runny nose and a slightly raspy voice, and woke up almost unable to breathe. These are the moments as parents that we’ll always treasure: the blind panic, the ineffectual patting on the back, the whispered ‘everything is going to be okay’ like I’m some sorta doctor and know about these things, etc. What fun.

Anyway, they gave her steroids and she was fine. I’m hoping she’ll now grow up to be a professional baseball player.

Artist’s rendition of last night’s events:

They referred to her breathing as stridor, which totally sounds like the bad guy out of a He-Man episode. Also, reading that Wikipedia article, they could have given her nebulized cocaine, so maybe she could have grown up to be Charlie Sheen! That’s an opportunity lost in my book.

Honey, I signed the kid up for sports but I didn’t read the legalese really carefully.  It’s possible I sold him to somebody.  Sorry about that.

I work on a three tier software product that’s used internally in our company. I recently discovered that our client software was logging 30,000-50,000 errors in the database every day, which I thought was significant as we only have about 50-100 users. It means each user is logging between 300-1000 errors every day, and the collective response from our development team was ‘meh, whatever.’ Really? That’s it?

I will keep posting, I will keep posting, I will keep posting.

God this blogging thing is a pain.

In other news, my boss’s boss’s boss cancels the meeting with me. Scared of what I was going to say apparently.

one day I’d live in Oxford.