One of the best kids DVDs we have gotten is the Vegie Tales series. The kids love them and they are lots of fun. Gina bought a wooden Sports Utility Vehicle for Sebastian the other day and last weekend we painted it together. I tought him the basics of how to use the airbrush (he is nearly 3!) and he sorta got it first go – of course his favourite part was cleaning it since he gets to spray high pressure water at everything, but all the same, he did a great job on the vignette at the bottom of the bodywork. Had a great time doing it. I have been spending the last couple of nights doing the detail on it and coating it in clear lacquer to keep the paint job looking as good as it does now after he plays with it a bit. Just needs some chrome on the grille and another coat of lacquer and its good to go.
Aurora taught herself to walk during the weekend too – she was barely standing on Friday and by Sunday she was walking around the house and dancing. Its amazing – she clearly was able to do but just didn’t want to. Hey, if people would pick me up all the time I would hold off on walking too. Since she started later then Sebastian in the walking department, her center of gravity is much better – she has not fallen backwards once! I am sure her skull is happy about this – poor Sebastian had some doozies when he was learning to walk.
This weekend also FINALLY saw the end of our server woes with iTOK. We have gotten phase one of the cluster set up with the Fortigate firewall in place and the servers are now happier than ever. The Fortigate firewall is really a great buy! If you look at the features in comparison with something like Checkpoint – its about a tenth of the price and it really whoops its ass – easy to use yet deceptively powerful. I feel like I am only using 10% of what it can do since it protects our cluster and not our offices – it can do email filtering, web filtering and a whole lot more. I would recommend it for corporate offices more than server installations; however its good for both. Not much sleep on Friday night with all that going on.
Finally, this week is an official Module week. Starting with a legend: Reed – classic tunes from his group Fairlight. Some of these tunez have been in intros from groups such as Equinox et al, but he’s the man for smooth and funky 64K ditties! Check out his tune in this 64K Intro! SEXY animation, wonderful music and the usual mind bending 64K of compressed exe for what would have taken an SGI about a week to render 5 years ago. Gotta love it. Looking forward to the scene awards and presentations at BreakPoint2005. (Don’t forget to check out the BP05 invitro)…
