http://peterandava.com Peter, Ava and Christina's home on the net Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We went to have some family photos taken a few weeks ago. Christina was very restless, but they managed to take some decent photos of the three of us. http://peterandava.com/2008/08/22/family-photos/ I've been looking into Skype as an alternative to using a traditional telephone. Call quality has been improving and from opinions I've read about call quality, it's somewhere between a cellphone and a landline. The Skype subscriptions page states that for US$5.99, you can get unlimited calls to landlines within your own ... http://peterandava.com/2008/05/15/investigating-skype/ How many times have you seen snow? The other day while deleting stuff from my desktop I came across a video that Nicola had taken of the snow when the family went to Underberg last year in 2007. Well that got me thinking that I hadn't seen it that much ... http://peterandava.com/2008/01/29/snow/ As of January 24th, 2008 we have been married for four years. The time really does fly. I remember meeting Ava back in 2002 and the year and half before we got married. Our weddings in ZA, Tainan and Taipei, what a busy year that was. And now four years down ... http://peterandava.com/2008/01/28/fourth-wedding-anniversary/ A colleague of mine is going to Durban to meet with a customer who is on Essex Terrace at: Suite 103, 1st Floor Kent House, 1 Neptune Rd, Essex Terrace Westville, KZN South Africa Their website is at http://www.i-kiosksolutions.co.za Can anyone suggest any good B&B's in the area, there will be three or so people for ... http://peterandava.com/2008/01/18/bb-in-westville/ I got a request from Rebecca, who found a comment that I had made about installing the Google Pinyin tool. She emailed me and asked me to show her how to change the google input method tool to Traditional Chinese. I'm chuffed someone asked so nicely. So here you go... For ... http://peterandava.com/2007/11/13/how-to-select-traditional-chinese-in-the-google-pinyin-tool/ This is via my friend Simon... On Saturday I drove to take my first look at Giba Gorge MTB Park near Marion Hill (along side the N3 Toll Plaza between Hillcrest and Pinetown). I was fortunate to enough to go out on my first exploration ride with non other than the owner, ... http://peterandava.com/2007/10/02/giba-gorge-mountain-biking-park/ Quick story... Ava went to the Chinese doctor, but on a weekday, so I couldn't help out with Christina. She went into the doctor's office, and the whole clinic was quite busy. While she was in the doctor's office, Christina started to walk around to explore. When she went to the closed ... http://peterandava.com/2007/06/27/babies-and-needles/ How are you doing? Starting on July 23rd, I will be doing Technical Writing instead of teaching. This involves writing technical documents for my new company iEi. I will know more about exactly what is involved when I start. This has been some time in the making and I have been quite unexcited ... http://peterandava.com/2007/06/25/im-changing-jobs/ It was my birthday on Tuesday (June 12th). Just getting older, and sharing that with all of you. http://peterandava.com/2007/06/12/peter-is-now-28/