Screaming Coder

Went to Rob and Viv’s combined birthday party on the weekend. It was a fancy dress do with a “Heroes and Villians” theme. I went as Steve Zissou from The Life Aquatic, which some mistook to be Papa Smurf. That’s a fair call. Since you could go as your own hero (and because the similarities were too convenient to pass up), Aimes went as the very beautiful Meg White. Rob also made a pretty convincing Bernard from Black Books.

A very funny thing happened today. I was tracing through my network traffic, debugging a WebDav application. I clicked on the first packet and opened up the stream. Since not much else was going on on my machine (network wise) typicaly the first packet would be the start of the WebDav conversation I was looking to debug. So imagine my surprise as this little number appeared:

<< Picture long lost in the move to the UK :( >>

I got this moments before messenger announced that elPoncho had sent it to me as an MSN message, so the whole experience was very random indeed.

Also, I never realy thought I’d plug The Cat Empire, but how good is The Wine Song?!!

Two good friends, elPoncho and Vivienna got married last Saturday in what was probably the best wedding I’ve been to where I didn’t actualy get married myself. The ceremony was in a charming little chappel at the college of St Francis. Everyone had a great time at the reception and it was excellent to catch up with some friends from out of town.

Being in charge of the music at the ceremony was scary. It’s a simple enough job, but the stakes are high. When I wasn’t pressing play/pause it was hard to take a photo cos my hands were shaking. I was so scared of stuffing anything up. It didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the ceremony though, and when it was all over I was happy to have helped in some way. I can’t remember what the aisle song was called, but the registry song was Muskrat Love (America) and they walked away to Love Cats (The Cure) . How cool is that?

As far as I know the whole day went very well and I hope (and suspect) that the happy couple had as much fun as everyone else.

Some of the better photos we took are up on my Flickr site.