stocksfamily.org The web site of Brenda, Campbell & Richard

Just making sure everyone knows... we're still alive and kicking! The reason this site has been quiet of late is we've all been posting on www.pls.net.au, which is set up for the extended family.

As part of a school project, Campbell was using my camera today to take some pictures of the bits and pieces she had been using to make a fire extinguisher. As I do, I loaded the Nikon raw files into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, converting to Adobe's digital negative format at the same time. Imagine my horror when I couldn't convert the images to jpeg.

Turns out it's all my own fault. I upgraded as soon as a new version was released.

I've just updated the content management software to the latest version of Drupal. Looks good so far, but please let me know if anything is broken!

I had to kill a few hours in terminal 4 at LAX today, so I went to the lounge to chill out. As American Airlines do, they reminded me on the way in to keep an eye on the monitors as they don't make boarding announcements in the lounge.

Two problems with this:

Over the last couple of days I'd noticed that my Treo 750 kept turning itself on. Switch it off, it comes back straight away. Idle timeout, it turns right back on. It was starting to drive me nuts.

Stumbled over the solution...

It's that time of year again. How quickly it rolls around. Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you! Hope it's a fun, and above all, safe one.

The nice folks over at DivX are getting into the spirit of Christmas by giving their DivX Pro bundle away for free (normally US$19.95). For a limited time you grab it from http://www.divx.com/dff/index.php. Instructions on the link. Download and enjoy!

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The yellow marker on the left is where I was off doing some product training in mid November. Yes, life is tough when you have to go to the south of France for training. The blue one shows where my boss and I decided to pop over to Italy for dinner.

Now, for more fun! The whole trip looks something like this:

A sad day for fans with the Triple M network announcing that they have axed Tony Martin's daily show, Get This.  Axing the show makes perfect sense.  I mean, ratings only double while it's on.  Go figure.  Go and download all the podcasts while you can.

Just found this:  http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveGetThis.  I doubt it will help, but hey, sign it anwyay!

The web site has been migrated to a new web server. I didn't have any warning that this was going to happen, so I'm now busy checking to make sure everything works as expected.