Congratulations!

Congratulations to Michelle and Richard on the birth of their daughter Sarah Lucy. I had the privilege of holding her for a few minutes a couple of days after birth. I wish the family all the best for this exciting time of their lives. Also congratulations to Cheryl on qualifying for the Commonwealth Games. Great effort! I hope to be down there to watch her race. Organising time off, travel and accommodation is not an easy thing to do, but will be worth the effort.

On Tuesday i severely strained my neck whilst playing soccer. At the time i didn't think it was too bad, so kept playing without any real discomfort. However during the day it started to stiffen up, to the point where i couldn't hold my head up straight by dinner time! I was meant to be flying down to Melbourne this week, but instead i'm resting at home. I've been spending my time doing geeky things, like developing and presenting a new footy finals system. It took a lot of effort to get it to this stage, and i've submitted a proposal via email to the NRL and AFL. Now it's just a case of wait and see, and get back to my video editing which has been on hold while i was developing my idea.

Tera-bite me!

Last Saturday morning Kerri and i got up at some crazy hour to head out to Homebush for Cheryl's Australian Championship 20km Walk race. We did manage to get there early enough to see the second half of the race. :-) She didn't seem to go any faster despite my cheering. I'll have to put in a bit more effort next time. Unfortunately, we lost track of time after the race and ended up with a parking fine. See, we should never have got out of bed so early!

The VirtualWebby Digital Video Production House has finally got off the ground, with the purchase of two 600GB LaCie Big Disk Extreme's (External HDD with Triple Interface). One drive will be soley devoted to being a HDV-editing scratch-pad, and the other will operate as our mass storage device. Each drive is actually 2 300's running in Raid-0 with Firewire 800 connectivity, so it's only my 2GHz single-core CPU that's letting the team down. I don't know how i'm going to distribute any of the footage i produce. It'll either be highly-compressed Windows Media 9 Series video, or i'll have to wait until HD-DVD (or Blu-Ray) comes about. In the mean time i'll be exporting back to mini-DV tape to play back via the HDV camcorder on our tele.

Things have been very hectic at work - hopefully it will settle down now and allow me more time for other activities. I somehow managed to be elected captain for Alcatel's Corporate Games soccer team. I don't even remember being nominated! Outside of the corporate games i haven't played competitive soccer since i was 10. Though, how hard can it be to captain a soccer team? Just kick the ball Mario! :P