Southampton play West Brom tonight. Southampton are 19th in the Premiership; West Brom are 20th, with two fewer points. If we lose, we go bottom. If we win, we’ll go above Crystal Palace, who are currently safe in 17th place, on goal-difference. To say this is the biggest match of the season is an understatement. FA Cup Quarter-final1 against Man. Utd? A trifle, in comparison. To think I gloated at my brother last year as his team - Leeds Utd. Read more...

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Marcus Bent. What can I say? Comedy name, son, but your last-minute equaliser for Everton against the clearly-superior-on-the-day Saints has robbed us of two desperately-needed points. The run-in to the end of the season isn’t great: 22 February: West Brom (A) 26 February: Arsenal (H) 05 March: Tottenham (H) 19 March: Middlesbrough (A) 02 April: Chelsea (H) 09 April Blackburn (A) 16 April: Aston Villa (H) 19 April: Bolton (A) 24 April: Portsmouth (A) 30 April: Norwich (H) 07 May: Crystal Palace (A) 14 May: Man Utd (H) You can write off the away games, probably, unless our form away from fortress St. Read more...

I’m pretty, ahem, dedicated to keeping our finances up to date and accounted for, and traditionally have used MS Money on Windows for this purpose. Say what you like about Microsoft (I’m not their biggest fan, to say the least) but Money is an app that works well and is pretty simple to use. I started with Money 98 in 1998, then upgraded to Money 2000 two years later. The thing is that we now use our iMac for 99. Read more...

20-week scan #4 Originally uploaded by t1mmyb. We had our 20-week scan last Thursday (20th January 2005). I took photos of the prints with the digital camera (we don’t have a scanner that works with our iMac), and here they are! All four scan photos are at Flickr

I’ve finally upgraded the hard drive in the iMac. Although I had an offer to use an external USB drive, in the end I backed it up to a Windows machine, using a mixture of disk images and ditto-created zip files. I followed the easy instructions at Macworld US and I was done inside 20 minutes (I think, as I wasn’t timing myself). The backing up and restoring of data is much more time-consuming than the actual hard drive swap. Read more...

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Apple Expo Banner, Paris Originally uploaded by t1mmyb We’ve never been to San Fransisco (maybe we will one day), but we did manage to go to Apple Expo Paris back in September.

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Kathy and I felt our unborn baby kicking last night. With a strong kick like that, I expect he/she will be either kicking footballs or doing kung-fu or something. The 20-week scan is on Thursday; it’s all becoming very, very real, very quickly! This afternoon we’re having a demonstration of all the available ‘real’ nappy options at Born, a relatively new baby equipment shop in Bath & Bristol. They’re not cheap, but everything’s organic etc. Read more...