Watching Jack play
We are at a great play area in Neutral Bay. He loves climbing on all the gear here and is pretty confident for his age. We are trying to master the slide here but he would rather lie on it at the bottom than slide down it.
new toys – the iPad
Well it has been a while since I popped out a post here but the arrival of a new tech toy makes it worth a bit of a scribble. Adrienne managed to pick up a spunky new iPad for me while she was traveling in New York last week.
It is my second day with it in my hands and I am not quite sure how well it is going to perform for me. As a piece of technology it is simply beautiful. It is light and thin with a beautiful screen and fast performance. At the moment though it is hard to see that it is a ‘game changing’ as claimed by some of the commentators.
The fact that I am using it before the official launch in Australia has revealed just how much control Apple has over their devices. It only works as an Itunes accessory. I could not even turn it on without first synching it to my iTunes account. Once powered up and synched, I wanted to see what new apps I could find, except the app store doesn’t work in Australia yet. The official launch is not until the end of next week so it looks like i’ll have to wait until at least then before accessing the really interesting stuff. Similarly it seems that I will not be able to use the iBook service just yet either, or buy the Apple iWork applications either, so it’s current utility is rather limited.
One thing that is good, unexpectedly, is the typing on the full size virtual keyboard. I expected it to be quite difficult without the physical response of the keys, but it is actually very comfortable. The auto correct that it uses probably helps me a lot as well too, and the fact that my typing was pretty crap in the first place.
I will keep playing with it an try to generate more output with it than I have done previously with the more mundane PC keyboard.
Quick Post to Re-boot
It is the New Year again, and I still feel the need to write but have a crappy resolve to get the keyboard moving at my fingertips. I have been doing a bit more free writing where I just open up my ‘brainvalve’ and try and allow the fingers to keep up. I haven’t done a lot of follow up to see what the results of that undirected blather have been.
It is looking like a very busy year where my commitment to output is going to be tested. There is too much thinking and not enough output and with out put the thinking may as well not have happened.
So Happy 2010!
Teeth and development
Jack is just over 8 months old now and it is amazing to watch his development. He now has his third tooth appearing pm his top gum to compliment the pair on the bottom.
He is able to pull himself to a standing position, provided he can find something stable enough to drag himself up on. This has often been the leg of anyone standing still long enough to be used as support.
Being a dad
The last 5 months have been amazing and exhausting, rewarding and frustrating. For the last five months I have been a dad to my beautiful little man – Jack.
Tonight Jack is having a hard time getting some sleep. We have been pretty lucky lately with his sleep. He has learned to relax himself and sleep on his own in his own bed – most of the time anyway. Tonight however he is sick with a cold. This is making sleeping flat a difficult proposition since his throat seems to fill with goop, causing him to cough and wake himself up.
Right now he is draped across my lap, asleep with the tele filling the empty silence of the dark night. I am going to have to try and get him to sleep before I doze off myself.