jiveturtle

Well, all I can say is that my wife, my daughter and I have been sent on some crappy family political mission this weekend. We were forced to go to Hsin Chu with the father-in-law (also known as b*******-in-law), after months of no contact from him. Nice to keep people expectations high isn't it? There I was, Saturday morning, enjoying my precious lie-in when the mother-in-law (also known as b****-in-law) started banging on our room door, telling us to hurry up and get up and changed to go to Hsin Chu, its important for us and gave us a whole bunch of reasons. Reluctant to get out of bed already, I consulted my wife, and she said we should go and get it over with. Fine, I said, so we woke the little one up, got everything ready (which meant the bottle steriliser, clothes for Amelie, clothes for my wife and I, 9 bottles, toothbrush, toothpaste, shower gel, baby's pram, baby's bathing tub, big tin of baby milk, 2 umbrellas, bag of nappies, and some snacks for Amelie for the j

Well, you guessed again, the bloody server is down! But surprisingly its not the server at fault, its the bloody wireless router! I think the power adapter has burnt out, and at the same time frying up my router for breakfast. Currently looking for a new wireless adsl modem router, but for some strange reason, I can't find a place which sells them in Taipei! This is Taiwan for God sakes! Where everything is made! Maybe I just need to look harder. On another note, because the server is down, I have set up a re-direct service to this news/blog site whenever my main site goes down. Because of this, the URL to my Jiveturle site has changed to: - http://www.jiveturtle.blogsite.org Update your bookmarks if you need to (thats if anyone has bothered to bookmark the site!). Once the server is up and running again, the new URL link above will go back to the original jiveturtle site. Hope this doesn't confuse things. Oh, a note to Chris, Kalps and Bret (he's in Australia now), because