Tue 4 Aug 2009
Posted by gremlin under Tech, Work
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Today is Bill day – the day I go through all the bills that need to be paid and pay them.
One of this months was a domain renewal “bill” from Domain Renewal Group for “riomhaire.org” for 28-85 Euro. It took a few seconds for me to realize that I DON’T HAVE ANY DOMAINS REGISTERED WITH this group. Interested I went to their website typed in the requested domain “riomhaire.org” and “its up for renewal” – in December 2009 a bit earlier than I would expect from a domain manager.
To cut a story short – it’s a scam, not illegal in that they will prob transfer your domain from whom its currently with to them when the domain expired, but unethical (from my perspective) business behavior never-the-less; I won’t mention that their rates are high and anyone sending a solicitation for business that looks like a bonifides bill deserves filing in the round bin (or rectangular shredder in this case).
Its easy to be confused, but if you have many domains and/or the one who manages your domains is not the one who receives the bill. But if you get a regular snail-mail from Domain Renewal Group just walk away. Also KNOW and record which company manages the DNS entries for your company.
Tue 4 Aug 2009
Posted by gremlin under Family, Life
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The post holiday blues have kicked in after arriving home from a 12 excellent days with the Family in Bavaria Germany. Will post more when i have gone through 982 email messages and uploaded my holiday snaps.
Fri 24 Jul 2009
Posted by gremlin under Children, Family, Fatherhood, Maeve, Travel
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We started our family Bavarian holiday by flying out on the Dublin on Wednesday morning at 07:20 and after a couple of hours flight we arrived in Munich. Hiring a VW car from Hertz took an hour and the next time we come we will not use hertz since all the other providers had no queues. We are based in beautiful Bavarian town of Murnau.
Today we visited Neuschwanstein Castle and the beautiful rococo church at wieskirche. The castle is beautiful with fabulous views but is smaller than I expected but the whole thing is a tourist trap. The church is in the middle of no-where, a UNESCO heritage site and absolutely draw dropping.
Maeve is having a great time. One new skill Maeve has learnt is to ‘chink her beaker’ in a toast when our we offer. Civilized is what our daughter has become.
Sun 12 Jul 2009
Posted by gremlin under Children, Family, Fatherhood, Maeve
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Fortunately Maeve has recovered from her virus and is back in the creche. Every day I notice new things about Maeve – like for example she can feed herself with spoon and fork. Her baby babble has increased a lot both in its range and its diversity; Maeve also tries to copy what you say. Maeve can also hold a pen in the right way for writing – as in how an adult would hold it and not like a crayon in her fist. Fine motor controls there daughter.
Maeve gave me her first “proper” kiss today – any by proper she pursed/puckered up her lips before kissing me good morning. Bernie explained that the creche had told her that Maeve was a part of a group of three girls (all who moved up to a bigger class together) were seen by the creche staff hugging each other and kissing – all very innocent and sweet for the smutty minded amongst you.
Today we spent visiting grandma, my sister and the Aoife the new born baby.
Tue 30 Jun 2009
Posted by gremlin under Children, Family, Fatherhood, Maeve
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Maeve has contracted some unspecified viral infection (according to the Doctor); Maeve is running a temperature and has started having a rash. Today we know where she contracted it from and that poor baby has had it for a week and still out of the creche; This means that Maeve will be out for the week – causing chaos in her working mom and dads professional lives.
Yesterday her mom worked from home, today I did it.
Maeves has been pretty good. Her temperature varies between hot and normal. When she is “hot” she is thirsty and drinks a lot of fluid then falls asleep for an hour or so. When her temperature decreases she is back to her boisterous self happy and laughing. But its still a lot of work.
This evening, Maeve definitely threw her first temper tantrum. It came about after we gave her some chocolate and as with children it becomes caked all over her face and hands; at this point Maeve went to my wife for some comfort and cuddles – and the lovely lady my wife is, she provided; Only to become covered in chocolate slime. My wife was naturally unhappy at this and put Maeve down. Maeve came over to me and I said “don’t come to be me with that chocolate face” – and which she wailed and howled in an obvious tantrum, in her mind rejected by both her parents; Maeve stomped off into into her toy room and we saw her throwing her toys across the room and upturned her table howling her little head off.
Took ages to calm her down.