January 2nd, 2006

Sunday, January 1sty, 2006, 9:53 am

So its now officially Jan 01 2006 here in America, another year gone.

I spent the new year at Mels Uncle and Aunties place with the rest of the family. There was the usual food eating, talking and game playing. We also skimmed over the 3rd lord of the rings movie, watching the good bits. Before long it was the countdown to new years and the traditional chin family balloon popping took place.

Melanie rang up just before new years and chatted to everyone, she was on the line when the balloons popped.

Im not usually one for new years resolutions. My goals and stuff change dynamically throughout the year. I guess i could make a list of stuff id like to do though.

hrmm, ok, off the top of my head.

* Get a real job
* Get a savings account that actually has savings in it
* Start my own bonsai from scratch
* Find more ways of showing Melanie how much i love her
* Start drawing again
* Work off some of the XXX burgers i ate over xmas
* Dance with Melanie more
* Laugh a lot

That will do i think.

I fly back to Cupertino this afternoon, have to pack my bag soon and make sure everything fits in

Leaving Mels family will be a bit of a downer, ive had a great time here, but then again ive got a project at Apple to do and high up mucky mucky people to impress

Happy New Year everyone!

Sunday, January 1sty, 2006, 9:39 am

WordPress 2.0 was released only recently. Ive read the changes and they sound big. Ive already downloaded it and will have to try updating soon. I was thinking the other day how many blogs running wordpress ive helped setup, at a rough count there is about 10.

This blog is kinda the test bed i guess. Ive got a back up of everything so ill probably install 2.0 on here and see how it goes before trying to move other blogs over.

I hope the new version has some better spam control thnough, i mean the version i run now is good, it stops comments from being published, but i still have to go in every few days and moderate 200+ comments, most of which are spam.

Oh well, i like playing with new stuff.