I’ve been busy getting things moved over to Movable Type this week. The blog content has been imported and categorised but comments will have been lost (sorry). I’ll blog about the process for doing this later but in the meantime I’ll note that while I’ve looked at this under variety of Mac browsers and IE…

Saw this today and it made me feel sad. Sad for those who want to have children and can’t have them, and sad that someone makes money out of selling these substitutes. It may help some people but it gave me a creepy feeling too. ic Newcastle – Virtual babies aim to ease parenting pain

In trying to track down some art work by Kenn Brown I found this amazing piece of digital art work from found in New Scientist Magazine. It’s loaded as a FlashVR object so it takes a while but it’s awesome. Kenn Brown: DNA

A few things today. Had a nice cup of coffee and chat with Steve at Auckland University today and then hitched a ride with Rachel (thanks!) (and Steve) back out to West Auckland. Good to hear that Steve’s settling into Christchurch and that the Auckland course is going well. Disappointed that Rachel doesn’t have a…

I’ve had the library’s copy of Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun (2002) out for a week or so and have been reading it in the evenings. Colquhoun is a doctor who writes poetry and this collection is out of his medical experiences here in NZ. Like most poetry I struggle with it sometimes but on…

Philip came home this afternoon (after we were told he’d be in for another night). Parents are relieved and tired and siblings are happy to see Philip and their parents again. Thanks again for the support.

Still in at Starship with Philip (Kim stayed in the first night and me last night). Just slipped across the road to Uni to check my email. Hopefully he’ll be coming home tomorrow when he’s off the oxygen and is not wheezing. He’s getting better (enought to be grumpy with having to stay there) which…

Spent the day at Starship Children’s Hospital with my baby, Philip. Took him in to the doctor expecting to be told that I was overreacting, that it was viral and to give him paracetamol and let him rest. Instead she put him on oxygen and called an ambulance. He’ll be there for at least two…

Long weekend this weekend as it’s Auckland Anniversary. (Prodigal’s off to the beach with mutual friends: Prodigal Kiwi Blog: Whangamata & Midsummer Murders) So Monday is a holiday in the top half of the North Island and then it’s the first day of the new school year on Tuesday when three on my children head…

With a headline like this how could one resist blogging the link. I especially liked the reference to Michael Moore who writes librarians are “one terrorist group you don’t want to mess with”. (I guess my posting ends up in some CIA database now). New Zealand News – Technology – Shelley Howells: The secret life…