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Author Archives: Thea Stainsby
Early Adopter or Follower?
I don’t especially regard myself as an early adopter but I hate to think of myself as a follower. I think I sit somewhere in the middle, take up new technology after others have proven it but before it is … Continue reading
Learning PHP
It is wild and windy outside, not a good day to be out and about, so I spent some of my day learning the basics of PHP. I created a test site, with a form to key in some information … Continue reading
Why am I here?
I have started a new life – living off the funds accumulated over a previous lifetime of work. It’s called retirement. This is an opportunity to do all the things I’ve been meaning to do in the other lifetimes, and … Continue reading
I am retired!
After 43 years in the computer industry (yes, I am an early adopter) and 7 years at Inmatrix-into-SunGard, today I retire.It will be hard not focussing on the next activities I need to undertake at work, and I am truely … Continue reading
35 into 25,000
Last week the little company I have worked for during the past 6 years was “acquired”. Vale Inmatrix, hello SunGard. Inmatrix was a small software developer specialising in Financial Analysis applications, currently with 35 people on board. It is going … Continue reading
Hayden is coming “home”
Wherever home is for Hayden… In my mind it will always be Australia, and wherever he is living now is temporary. Well he doesn’t plan to stay in THAT place forever, and if he keeps moving as planned, the only … Continue reading
Evan is home
This morning we picked Evan up from Melbourne airport. It was a long journey home from Mexico via LAX, but he travelled well. Sally was especially pleased to see him.To our delight he didn’t stop talking all day – brunch at … Continue reading
Summer nights and more eight legs
It is lovely to sit outside on a warm summer evening, and even better when we can watch the golden orbs spinning their amazing webs. Of course the webs are gone in the morning, gobbled up at dawn. I’d also … Continue reading
Blast from the past
One of my Christmas presents this year (actually the one to me from me) was a film scanner. So now I am digging up old slide photos. This is one I came across recently, when I was sorting out Dotty’s … Continue reading
eight legs…
We holidayed at Sorrento starting 24th December. That is the day I found a white tail (spider). Nasty little creatures that can make a sting. Came home today, with a heap of washing. It was in the laundry that I … Continue reading