[Abigail Emily Beadle](http://www.flickr.com/photos/t1mmyb/2154524254/) Originally uploaded by [t1mmyb](http://www.flickr.com/people/t1mmyb/) Slightly late posting this (I twittered, Flickrd and emailed on the day), but Abigail Emily Beadle was born at 9.25pm on December 30th, 2007, weighing 7lbs. Mother & baby are mighty fine :) Phoebe is delighted to have a little sister, and Kathy is delighted not to have had another Caesarean section and the -attendant- +associated+ six weeks’ recovery.

Sorry - I haven’t posted since Friday, and that was only to tell you the blog had moved house. In short: Bill Gates, KBE.stm. Killing British Enterprise, presumably. Southampton earned a well-fought point against Arsenal, though David Prutton has been given a ten-match ban for pushing the ref. Eek! Saints also beat Brentford in the FA Cup 5th-round replay, setting up a quarter-final against Man. Utd. That’s about it, really. See you again soon! Read more...

The blog now lives at www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/ as I was fed up of performing redirects from the PlusNet homepages server to the CGI one. The RSS feed still lives at feeds.feedburner.com/ItCouldBeWorse

Another quick rant. I’m working at home today, which means I’ve had to field two telemarketing calls already, and it’s only lunchtime. Both calls were from companies that I am already a customer of, but they both used a technique that I’d encountered in the past but only recently got wise to: the “Is That OK?” Rather than asking a question that’s unambiguous, like “would you like to take advantage of this offer? Read more...

Snow towards Roundhill Originally uploaded by t1mmyb.

Grrr. I thought we’d seen the last of these, but I had noticed the odd popup lately, in both Firefox and Safari. It seems that those dirty advertisers have found ways to get around the popup-blockers present in most modern browsers by default (and IE with XPSP2 or a third-party add-on). Veerle Pieters has a great quote from a web advertiser on her blog: By using a popup blocker, you are essentially stealing their work. Read more...

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...

Yes - I know that I only just started using Textpattern, but Wordpress 1.5’s feature list was too good to pass up.

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...