A New Boy!

Well First of all I would like to let every one know that every thing went fine. We got back from the hospital Monday after noon. The doctors spend three days trying to induce her. some things worked to good (not good) some things worked the way they were supposed to, then the next step didn’t work at all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin).

So they went through all the hoops and decided that this would have to be done by Ciceronian Section or C Section, in hospital lingo “a section”.

Kristi has a rather strong dislike for needles and after all the blood work, Ives and morphine it was time for the Spinal, that turned into a Epidural.

So in the end after pity much nothing working to her advantage and numerous failed spinal pokes at 4:19pm Aiden Ethan Patterson was born weighing in at 4000grams on the dot, that’s 8lb 14oz and being 52cm or 20.5 inches long.

See attached links for some photos:

I’m glad to be home after almost a week at the hospital that we are starting to settle in.

I think I’m going to go sleep now :)

Lots of Changes

Ok, so i have a lot of “stuff” in the works. First of all my wife (Kristi) and i are expecting a baby boy in November so of course we are super happy about that, we have been preparing for the shuffle of the office to the basement and the basement clean up.

The other projects i have on the go would be a new site. i have the design made and will hopefully be making a new template from the ground up, i don’t have an estimate on how long that will take, I’m presently preoccupied with work and have a few things going on with some up and coming software from nForm.

My Addressbook has under gone a bunch of changes and some optimizing but still no e-mail support yet, sorry no time. i have also go to make individual user login for maintaining information.

And as if i didn’t have enough to do i have an idea I’m trying to put into prototype for testing. could be something really cool.

Web 2.0?

I was reading this article on how web 2.0 is “The Killer of Design” and the confusion that surrounds it. No one really knows what it is. If you search for it in Google you will get a few pages containing links to supposed Web 2.0 sites, but none of them seam to meet what i thought was Web 2.0 (colourfull, larger text, user friends, standards based).

With the increase of all these “user friendly” sites that offer easy creation of content were people can pick and chooses what they wish. creating works of “art” that can be something to be desired.

Bellow is an excerpt from the article.

We now have myriads of users actively publishing content on the internet; but when it’s so easy to do it and all the barriers have been removed, what will the user do with this absolute freedom, especially considering his general lack of whatever publishing skills were necessary before? Too much freedom can be dangerous and the user will eventually abuse it. Just take a look at MySpace or other similar sites to see what I’m talking about. The designer’s nightmare is upon us – users are given the power to choose layout, colors, fonts, and all the flashy gimmicks they want.

Maybe some day the whole web 2.0 thing will be explained and every one will be at peace until web 3.0 comes out and everything gets murky.

Wikipedia: web 2.0
badboy.ro: The Killer of Design