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Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

Lucas is two but some ground rules have been laid out already as to what I cannot buy him for Christmas this year:

A model Tie Fighter.
A model Millenium Falcon or indeed anything related to Star Wars.
Anything to do with Star Trek.
Anything to do with Stargate.
A new MacBook.
Anything to do with guns, weapons and the military [...]

Photo of Lucas in the garden yesterday. I asked him to smile but I think he overdid it a bit!

Lucas has inherited both my brother’s and my dinky toys. Click for bigger.

Almost a year ago I brought Lucas down to a voluntary play group that was set up here in Youghal called the Tweenies. Everything is self-funded and the club relies completely on donations. They meet on Tuesdays and Fridays over the regular school term and it is a fantastic resource especially if you have a toddler [...]

On the top is Lucas in July 2008 when he was 8 months old. Underneath that is a photo of Lucas taken approximately in the same position today, April 20th 2009.
A big change in 9 months! Click for bigger!

Seems to be a bit of a trend at the moment with people wanting to see what other peoples desks look like. So much so there is even a dedicated site and even Grandad has his for all to see. However I’m going to show what’s under my desk (bench) instead, click for bigger.

Like father [...]

My son doesn’t think so.