The McKenzie’s Blog…

Hello and happy holiday season to everyone.  I’ve started a Donation page on the Justgiving website for collecting donations for MAGPAS.  If you have a couple of spare bucks and would like to donate to this wonderful life saving charity, please CLICK HERE and help out in any way you can, it would be greatly appreciated!!  Thanks

Today at Ladybird Pre-School they had their Christmas Bizarre and Santa’s Grotto.  We entered the raffle as well and walked out with a pair of advent calendars for the kids.  So they’ll get to open those little doors each day until Christmas.

It was a good time there.  Emma, Lisa and Daddy went along with Yang, Oliver and Olivia.  Yuki stayed home to sleep as she was working today.  The kids all had a great time.  They made hats and decorated them with all sorts of bits and pieces that could be drawn on or glued on.  The kids also got to see Santa, sort of the main reason for going really.   They waiting in a very very short queue since we got there early, then sat with Santa and bent his ear for a few minutes no doubt giving a list longer then his arm of things they want.  Emma was actually quite quiet, she really want sure what to make of Santa… looked like she might actually cry but managed to get some courage and spoke to him haha.

(More pics on Flickr - CLICK HERE)

After we got home from this it was time to get dressed up in their party outfits for an evening at a birthday party for Ted, Emma’s classmate that turned 3.  Sorry, no pics from that

Yuki was off today to Champney’s Health Spa today (belated b-day present), Lisa was in school all day and Daddy had the day off and had to look after Emma.  Having done some running around in the morning we’d decided to go swimming.

Check out all the pics and videos taken at the pool today .. CLICK HERE

Today is Emma’s birthday and she’s 3.  Emma is taking cupcakes to school today to share with her friends.

We’ll have pictures later today once the kids get home from school, I’ll update this entry then.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

EMMA

Video of Emma getting her "cake" (Cup cakes)

You can see the rest of the pics in the gallery by clicking on any of the photos, it will take you to Our Flickr Gallery.

Well, that is to quote a line from 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons - English) by Nena.   The fireworks held at Cottenham Primary School this year were great.  The kids had a great time as well.  It sure was cold though, only 9C but with the wind and being mostly exposed to the wind in the school grounds it was quite chilling and everyone was well cold by the end of the show.

You can see all the pics and the videos from the night by CLICKING HERE.

Simple put PuTTY is the best SSH/Telnet client available.  However, the one feature it’s always lacked which I feel would make it out of this world is tabs.  If you could have just one windows but loads of tabs to different servers, like another very expensive product can do, it would be great.

Well, Googling today for some other SSH client that has tabbed windows I found a spiffy little application called WinTabber.  There is a free version or the CTR Edition which is only $5 to register.  From the looks of the site the free version doesn’t suppose Putty, but everything else.  Well, having played with the 10 day trial version for all of 20 seconds it’s pretty clear this is well worth the $5.  And just as soon as I find a way to actually register it I will.

Gone are the days of non-tabbed Putty sessions for me!!  You can also apparently tabify just about any other application too.  I’ve not even looked at that, but will check it out in time.  Putty is only thing I needed it for to start with.