Catching up with weblog stuff. Trying out the baby-bjorn style baby carrier this morning, carrying Louis around with some success. It kept him entertained for a couple of hours while we tidied up and caught up with things around the house. Now while he is still quiet got time to catch up on some of the tech and mobile weblogs which I have been leaving to build up. Spotted an interesting program for fixing 'slow' and 'unresponsive' windows machines, Process Lasso from Bitsum. Useful when the computer seems to stop responding due to a process from getting out of control, it can be set to limits the proportion of processor time any one process or application can use, and also change the priorities of processes in a 'nice' way. Recommended by Boston PPC Pocket PC Thoughts mentions that Newsgator has changed to a free model for personal use. This might compete with my longstanding use of Bloglines (beta) as my RSS feed reader of choice as something I can use on Mac, PC and mobile. Some other software to try out on Windows Mobile: * Avot MV online video portal and player * Upgraded version of Pocket CM iphone-like contact and SMS browser. * Trivial but useful looking NoteToSelf from Web IS. This is a program which was previously called Voice Minder and a forum competition helped to rename. I think they missed a trick by not calling it 'Captains Log'. However, wouldn't that make a great voice shortcut for the program. It may also be interesting to take a look at the new web browsers for windows mobile which are on their way over the next few months. Opera 9.5 has announced but not been released to consumers yet. Netfront has released their new version too. There also a couple of projects for windows mobile browsers based on the Apple Safari core webkit. These are 'Iris' from Torch Mobile and 'WebKit for Windows Mobile' from Wake3, both in limited tesing stage and not made a first public release yet.

Kate and I have a new baby boy. Those of you following on twitter will already know that he was born 00:43 on Monday 14/1/07 weighing in at 4.1kg (9lb3). Sproglet and Kate are both well and came home on Wednesday night. Keeping on calling him Sproglet might look a bit odd on the school register, so we are naming him Louis Alexander Farrell.

We have found the camera, and today had some quiet time to get some photos uploaded: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digital_sean http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalkatie http://www.flickr.com/photos/analogueali Thanks for all the messages from everyone over the last few days, sorry that I have not replied to everyone directly.

Looks like we have a temporary reprieve.  Been in for a quick checkup at the Simpsons maternity unit.  Sproglet seems to be happy and might hold out for another 24-48 hours.

By the way we're both keeping friends and family up to date using twitter.  Which is usefully feeding updates to web, facebook and as text messages.

http://twitter.com/digitalsean
http://twitter.com/digitalkatie
http://twitter.com/sproglet

If you don't want to know the result , look away now.

Flock's social web browser is worth a look. They have just released v1.0.1, and the browser is looking really nice. It is based on firefox, but automatically detects and allows you to interact with news feeds, photo and media feeds from flickr, facebook and you tube.

Nice blog editor and web clipboard which works with wordpress, typepad, blogger and others. Hover over a photo, or right click on a web page and chose 'blog this'. Flock's people sidebar can show a combined list of recent messages from facebook, flickr, twitter and youtube. Clicking on the star in the toolbar allows you to bookmark sites, and also in one step to send the link to del.icio.us or magnolia. One tip - click the star once and check 'show this dialog when adding favorites'. That way you can right click on links, favorite them and optionally tag them and send them to your online service. oh - and since browser is based on Mozilla Firefox codebase, Flock is available for Mac, Windows and Linux

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, browser, flickr, facebook, mozilla

A lovely Curry Take-Away called Splendid in Leuchers came to my rescue tonight. 

I was left on a platform waiting for a train in St Andrews after a meeting had lasted way too long, and I found that the next train would get me home after 8pm.  Not good.  Kate suggested ordering out: was there a local take-away which would deliver to the platform?

Spendid certainly managed this, just under 15 minutes later a car drew up at the taxi rank and what appeared to be the chef popped out and handed me the very hot curry, in exchange for a very small amount of cash.