Thursday, 15 January 2009

Weather Forecast

A friend from uni told me his theory about the Perth metropolitan weather forecast. According to him they would never forecast temperatures higher than 39C. It was just a theory I think because he never actually saw a forecast for more than 39C. But guess what the temperature forecast is for tomorrow ?! I so rubbed it in ;-)

Friday, 9 January 2009

Latest Project - Wedding Homepage

Ian had the idea of doing a wedding homepage. So instead of answering the same questions over and over again, we would put all the information about - Where & When, To & From, On the day, Accommodation,... on the web. Sounds simple but since I like challenges I installed TYPO3 on my web server and got a free template from the internet. It took me a couple of days to have everything up and running but now it is so simple and easy to add content, create forms, manage user accounts, have everything in 3 different languages ...

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Holiday Mood

I am still in holiday mood. Whereas holiday means organising a wedding and the house renovations. There are so many things to do - wedding invitations, guest and address lists, wedding homepage, organising trades people, getting quotes from plumbers, from electricians, from the cabinet guys who are going to make the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, ... There is no space left in my head for my PhD...

Monday, 5 January 2009

The Chaser

I was chasing water pipes today :-) Since we are going to cut and demolish walls we wanted to make sure that we wouldn't accidentally hit a pressured water pipe. So I did a lot of chasing. But it was good fun and I quite enjoyed the physical work - a nice change from sitting in an office the whole day. But after 3 days my wrists hurt and I was cured from wanting to do more chasing ;-)

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Busy, busy, busy

The New Year just started and we are already extremely busy with the renovation of our unit. After spending NYE down in Mandurah at a friend's place we drove straight back the day after to work on our unit. There are soo many things to do in preparation for the big renovations. Strictly speaking I wouldn't call it renovations any more. We are nearly doing a rebuilt - we are replacing all doors and windows, demolishing internal walls. They only thing that stays the same is the roof and most of the external walls. Can't wait until it is finished!