Jean is coming on in leaps and bounds!
Uhoh - means I'm dropping this object or I'm back on my bottom when I should be standing etc...
Babeee - means anything that you cuddle especially teddy bears and cats.
Shooosh - means shoes, socks and trousers, presumably becuase they all go on or over her feet!
Door - seems to mean any componenet of a building so doors, windows, walls and floors!
Ubbish - is the latest and appeares to mean rubbish and is also code word for I dont want this peice of yummy any more mummy.
Her walking is really good! And the nursery commented on it and apparently she hadnt been walking there at all - now she objects if shes not walking! Also she now had ideas about where she wants to go. If you try and steer her in another direction she just sits down!
Here are some cute pictures!
Jean has also discovered the whole blowing nose thing! If you start blowing you nose she wrinkles hers up and huffs, she will also insist on having a piece of tissue that she holds somewhere in the region of her mouth and nose and huffs on it - general just ending up eating half of it! But the really sweet thing (ok I'm her adoring perant ok) is that she will try and blow your nose for you by holding the tissue to your face.
This is a photo of her trying to blow Minnis nose, she also subjects the kittens and many of her toys to the same treatment!
She also regually sits and pretend to be eating or possibly cooking, she even puts imaginary things in the bowls and attempts stiring and if your really lucky she tries to feed it too you. This is infantly more tasty and pleasant than when she sttempts to feed you her fishermans pie etc... Or when she tries to share her beef cassorole with Al!
She is feeding herself really well too although I did come in to find she was weebabixing the cats with squeals of joy as they proceeded to eat it off of each others backs!
Ok, having eliminated all VLANs from the equation, I still see iTunes connecting to daapd giving up a few tens of seconds into each song. So it looks like the latest release of iTunes doesn't like daapd for some reason.
However, SMB performance is still dreadful, with common "server disconnected" error messages.
I've confirmed it's not the LAN at fault (unless subtly so) by doing HTTP, SCP, and telnet-to-chargen and getting good rates.
Right now I'm trying an experiment with smbclient rather than the smbfs that comes with Mac OS X - and it seems to be running fine... so it looks like there's some problem between OS X's smbfs and the version of samba I have, which is just bizarre.
Perhaps I ought to set up Appletalk sharing - at least that way Sarah can access the household music collection, anyway...
Mum and Dad had to come up and see us as they currently have no vechile and we have two!
But obviously a long train journey when you are supposed to be elevating feet has made her condition worse 🙁
Then on top of that she has a lump in her breast - its quiet large - we are hoping its the cellulitis but she has doctors apointments and stuff this week 🙁 She is supposed to be seen as soon as possible but obviously being stuck here thats a bit awkard 🙁
At 11:02 this morning I saw Jean walk from the stairs to the setee!
This is the first definate walk either of us has seen though its lickely that she is walking at nursery.
Since then she walked from the kitchen to the front door as daddy was going to get a sack of coal from the little garage and she didnt want to be left behind! Unfortunatly this expadition was cut short by the fact it snowed last night and she had bare feet and mummy unlike daddy is strict about the whole cold feet thing!
BUT... Jean is walking!!!!1 Sarah bounces
Yesterday I configured Squid on my internal network; machines on the office LAN can use it if configured to use an HTTP proxy, while machines on the wifi LAN are forced to use it as a transparent proxy via port forwarding on the router (I'm slowly making the wifi LAN more and more like a cheap ISP's network - it's an open wifi, so I'm keen to force its users to be well-behaved).
The thing is, watching Squid's logs, I was horrified at just how few pages it felt it could cache. I'd always imagined, when developing Web apps, that anything fetched with GET could be cached for a while (and might even be prefetched). So when I actually dug a little deeper, I found that just about anything dynamically generated (including quite static pages that just use a bit of PHP to automatically include the same navigation in every page, with the currently selected option highlighted, for example) is, unless the script author has made special effort, generally not cacheable.
You can check the cacheability of pages with this useful cacheability testing tool.
Blog software is terrible at this, for example, despite generally having very cacheable pages
Rather than explain the rules in detail here, I'll link to somebody who already has. In particular, read the section on writing cache-aware scripts.
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Animals, Sarah, The Family | sarah | 
Thu 1st Feb 2007 1:01 pm | 
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