Really, truely, soon. Before it is no longer fresh in my memory and the normal doldrums of child care erases it from my mind. The basic gist – Stupendous!
First I have a few photos on Flickr and I’ll be adding more when I have some time to finish tagging them.
A number of other people have posted some as well StuFF mc’s, ax25, alexrepty, aallan and marius.pacha
Marius managed to get this photo of me in my absolute favourite shirt that I bought in Tesco a few years ago. Kicking myself that I never got a second one 
There are other posts I should be writing, like a write up of my thoughts on NSConference which I attended the other week, but for now just wanted to share that we are gearing up for moving house.
We should be getting the keys to the new house on Thursday this week (Friday is a public holiday) which means we can get in and have a look over to see if there is anything that needs to get urgently done before the move. The only thing we are thinking off atm is adding some lower handrails for the kiddies to use as the stairs are a little steep.
The move itself is happening 2 weeks tomorrow, May 12th, which seems so strange. Particularly when your used to the fact in the UK that you exchange and generally move on the same day; which often leads to the whole chain effect where one link going wrong screws the whole thing up.
It still seems so far away atm, as if its still a dream but as we get closer and finish up with the packing I’m sure it will start to feel more real.
BTW For those that want to look at some (albeit not great) photos of the new house that we took ages ago then here ya go. Hopefully some updated photo’s will appear once we get the keys and go over at the weekend.
Can’t think of a title, the curse of blogging I suppose coming up with a title that captures the post.
Anyway, a little moan (I will probably do loads of them, thats just me). The other week I discovered that Boom! Studios was releasing a bunch of movie related comics, Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, Toy Story and the Muppets.
I tried to order them via my comic shop her in Germany but they are only available in the US only. Not a huge problem apparently you can order them directly from Boom! Studios.
Well … lets see each issue is $2.99 each which is fine however a subscription for 4 issues of Cars is $20.99 (um my maths suggests that should be 11.96). Postage to Germany is a whopping $27.50 via the USPS.
WTF, $27.50? What are they shipping the damn things in? A special comic tube?
It improves slightly, if you add a 3 issue subscription of The Incredibles ($14.99 … again 3 * $2.99 < $14.99) and a single issue (issue 1 which isn’t part of the subscription because you can order one of 4 different covers) raises the postage to only $30.75
I want to support the publisher, I really do (parituclarly as I am enjoying their Farscape comics and I’m kinda curious about their Blood Bowl comic) but that is too rich for my blood.
*splutters* Just put a single issue of a comic in and they want $27.50 to post that!!?!?!!?!
I’ll save moaning about the fact they have to make these comics US only, I am guessing that is out of their hands and very much down to the licensor.
You might have wondered where I disappeared to for much of the last month (possibly / probably not), basically I spent much of January with various stinking colds.
Which boiled down to me then not doing a lot and not particularly feeling like blogging, though I did continue to on and off tweet on Twitter.
The plus side of all this illness is that I have dropped a lot of weight, basically I’m down to a lovely 73kg (a little up & a little down on that) — 11st 7 pounds in old money. Hopefully I can keep it off
Hopefully some new posts should be forthcoming, once I figure where to fit them into my time.
For once, thanks to the hard work of Steve “Scotty” Scott & Tim Isted, there is going to be a Mac developers conference in the UK.
Its open to anyone but aimed for UK & European developers that can’t really make the yearly (and rather expensive) WWDC trip. It’s a 2 day conference (3 if you want to attend a workshop) aimed at intermediate to advanced developers, with a number of “names” in the Mac development world doing presentations. For instance:
Bill Dudney (author of Core Animation and co-author of the upcoming iPhone SDK Development book) is do a workshop on “iPhone Development” and a talk on “Building Applications with Core Animation”
Marcus Zarra (author of the coming Core Data book from Pragmatic Programmers & also co-author of a coming Core Animation book), is doing a workshop on “Core Data” and a talked on “Spotlight and QuickLook vs. Core Data”
Mike Lee (founder of United Lemur, co-founder Tapulous, former intern of Wil Shipley at Delicious Monster) is doing a workshop on “User Interfaces” and a talk called “Pimp My App”.
Other speakers are Matt Gemmell, Graham Lee, Drew McCormack, Philippe Mougin, Andre Pang, Fraser Speirs and ???? (1 talk has yet to be announced).
To learn more about the conference, click on the banner below. If your into Mac development and in Europe / UK then come along and I hope to see you there.
