Ewan's Musings

Will Rogers:

"You can't say civilisations don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Warez Do Make A Difference

It really annoys me when people say Warez doesn't harm anybody. Well, it does - because thanks to warez I can't play Lemmings on my Nokia 9210.

Some months ago, Symbianware released Astronix, which I really enjoyed. Okay part of me was upset that it wasn't a perfect clone of Asteroids - but being a classy version of Qix was enough for me.

What was exciting was the fact that they let everyone know that their next release would be the classic puzzle game Lemmings!

Unfortunatly it's never going to be released. Because within 24 hours of Astronix being released, it was cracked, warezed, and across all the dodgy web sites, forums and Yahoo Groups that have sprung up in the murky depths of Symbian OS. Sales for Astronix never materialised, and the loss of confidence in the games market meant that Symbianware have vowed never to release another game.

Thanks guyz :-(

Open For Browsing

After a few near misses (and somehow pulling down All About Symbian in the process), Ewan's Musings is here.

Not that I'm going to be fanatical in doing updates and stuff, but there you go. I'll put up tomorrow what's likely to be talked about here, and (more importantly) what won't be covered.

Eilidh's 27 Week Appointment at the Clinic

Eilidh's up to 13lb 15oz. Vikki's taken her to the clinic, and here's what happened.

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From Vikki
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After Eilidh's last weigh-in three weeks ago and the completely unhelpful health visitor who frightened me by saying how dangerously underweight Eilidh was, I plucked up the courage to go back today to have her weighed. I was feeling quite confident about it though, she's just had a huge growth spurt and her 3-6 month trousers are suddenly 2" too short! In three weeks she's gained a fantastic 15oz which takes her to 13lb 15oz and she's jumped a centile too, to between the 2nd and 9th. I saw the regular health visitor today, and she was delighted with how well Eilidh's doing.

We talked about her feeds, and for once she agreed with everything I'm doing and didn't tell me to change anything (although knowing health visitors, that maybe isn't a good thing!). I got vitamin drops for her, although the health visitor said she probably doesn't need them because I'm giving her such a variety of foods. We talked about giving her fish, because I was concerned she might be missing out on vital things because I'm not giving her wheat, dairy or meat yet. I'm going to try her on egg next week though.

So anyway, things are going really well. I've got the rest of the photos from Christmas moved onto the PC but they're not on her website yet. Hopefully I'll do that over the next few days.