Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Look at my Booby

Thought I'd catch you offguard with that one. I recently installed a database system on my webspace that can store bookmarks, contacts, todo's, memo's...etc. I was always frustrated when chatting with friends that I never had 'that link' that showed 'that cool thing'. Whether I was at home or at work, it was always at the wrong location. Plus there were times when I'd found a link to a download at work that I wanted to try at home, so I'd email it, then forget about it, then think about it 2 months later, and be completely unable to retrieve that email.

So I came across this little PHP setup someone had created called 'Booby', which not only allows you to store bookmarks, but all those other things too, PLUS you can have multiple users on it, AND you can share your data if you like. If you want to sign up for a free account on my site, go here...
www.techietim.com/booby

Okay, some heavy stuff now. My youngest son, Reuben (10 months old) was diagnosed with Hemiplegia yesterday. It's something that is going to affect him for the rest of his life and it's going to be difficult for him to develop physically on the left hand side of his body. He could end up with a limp.

But we're a God fearing family, and Reuben is a miracle child to boot. We were trying for a child for a few months when my wife was diagnosed with polysistic ovaries. This meant it was difficult for her to control her weight, and that she would have difficulties conceiving. A month or so later, there was a period in our church where the Holy spirit was healing people. Naomi (my gorgeous other half) didn't want to go up for prayer, and said she'd go only if God asked her to. Low and Behold, a moment later, a word of knowledge for healing came up for "women with problems with their ovaries". Well, now she had no choice, God had spoken directly into the situation. She went up for healing, and then a few weeks later we were celebrating a bun in the oven.

The miracle didn't stop there. With our firstborn, Naomi had an emergency C-section, and so there was an extremely high chance of that happening again with Reuben. Needless to say, Naomi didn't want that. True to form, Reuben came on the expected day, with a natural birth.

God's working in Reubens life, and this Hemiplegia, despite being 'incurable' is not gonna get in the way!

Saturday, May 01, 2004

Okay, okay, it's been far too long since I posted anything, and to be honest there's been plenty to post about.

Firstly, I thought my 5 yr old Mac had died on me, so I went out and bought a new eMac. Then I found my Mac was working!!! THEN, 1 week after buying the eMac, Apple upgraded the model so it was 25% faster, and £100 cheaper!!!

We've also had a new car - well I say new, it's second hand - (nicknamed 'Thunderbird 2') it's ugly on the outside, but fantastic inside. Plus we've had a new sofa too. My old Bike was nicked, so that's been replaced with a new one, and someone gave me their old phone (which brand new would be worth £470). So I'm feeling brand-spanking-new-happy.

My oldest son (3 and 3 quarter years old) has started to learn how to flirt. It's funny watching him, but we don't know where he gets it from... seriously!

My youngest son is defective. Just kidding, I love him to bits, but his left arm is always tight and tense, and he doesn't use it much at all. So we've got some exercises to do with him to help. It's all fun and games in the Knight clan I tell ye!