Confusability

Clodagh McEvoy

Our new daughter arrived on Saturday 7th June at 6.45pm.

Clodagh McEvoy weighed in at 9lbs 2 and a half oz's and mother and daughter are well.

Clodagh McEvoy (1 hour old)

She shares her birthday with Beau Brummell, Paul Gauguin, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Elizabeth Bowen, Jessica Tandy, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dean Martin, Nikki Giovanni, Paddy McAloon, Prince, Louise Erdrich

Baby Blaine Spoon Stunt Failure

Gaby "Baby Blaine" McEvoy has failed in his latest attempt to balance a spoon on the top of a yoghurt pot.

Twenty month old Gabriel had managed to lay the green plastic spoon on the top of the peach and mango "thick and creamy" yoghurt with the practised dexterity of a young Uri Geller.

All went well for the first twenty seconds before the self styled "high chair magician" gave into his animal urges and used his right index finger to pierce the foil with a rapier like movement that was too fast for the many onlookers to see properly.

After using the green spoon to eat the yoghurt in less than a minute, the youngster turned the pot upside down and slammed the tainted spoon onto the bottom of the now empty pot in an attempt to rescue the stunt attempt, but the attendant referees said that this deliberate eating of the props could not be overlooked and called a halt to the spectacle.

Baby Blaine responded by saying "it's been over a minute since I finished my tea of pasta and I needed to eat something sweet to satisfy my appetite".

Gabriel's previous stunts include hiding in a dark, liquid filled sac for nine months and sitting in a tepid bath for over seventeen minutes without peeing in it.

Happy New Year - Usability Caption Competition

Gabriel, Chris (and Heather) McEvoy wish you all a fantastic new year and Gabriel thought it might be a good idea to see if anyone can come up with a good caption for this photo of me and Gabriel (he's the cute 18 month old baby on the left).

There may even be a prize for the best usability related caption.

It was 40 years ago today

I was born on the 22nd November in 1965.

That makes me 40 today.

On November 22nd :

1922 - Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1963 - JFK was assasinated in Dallas.
1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2005 - The XBox 360 releases in North America. First of the next-gen consoles.

In 1965 :

24 Jan - Winston Churchill dies
9 Feb - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam
21 Feb - Malcolm X is assassinated
08 Jul - Ronald Biggs escapes from jail
14 Jul - US spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the red planet
11 Aug - Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California
8 Oct - The Post Office Tower opens in London
16 Nov - Disney launches Epcot Center
22 Dec - 70 mph speed limit imposed on British roads

Heather McEvoy

Heather just asked me why I had never posted her picture on my blog.

Well, here's Heather McEvoy is with our 11 month old son Gabriel.

And here is my current favourite picture of Gabriel McEvoy. (Heather doesn't like it!)

And here's a cute one as well.

Love For Cats

(Hoping that the professionals and experts never take over the web)

We are John-Joe and Luke McEvoy. We have created this website for our love of all animals and especially cats!
From Love For Cats

It's got a midi version of Rage Against The Machine, bubbles float up from the mouse pointer and I think it's fantastic. It's got more heart than Nathan Barley and all the spoof ad sites put together. It reminds me of a cross between Mahir's I Kiss You site and Fatmouse.

When I was their age I was programming in  BASIC on my ZX81, but now I write code that writes websites instead.

I hope that kids are encouraged to create their own web sites and become an integral part of the web community.

Note: John-Joe and Luke are my nephews and they created their site with no help or advice from me, although I hope that they embrace web standards and visit the CSS Zen Garden to get some inspiration for their next project.
PS: I was responsible for this attempt at political satire, which included my six month old son in his first online political act.

Pre-Speech Solidarity

Only two weeks old and Gabriel has already perfected the clenched fist salute.

Now I just need to get that local anarchist young pioneers group started.

Backward Compatibility?

A system is backward compatible if it is compatible with earlier versions of itself, or sometimes other earlier systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. That is, other systems or objects that interoperate with the old version of the system should continue to interoperate with the new version.

Happy Day of Birth

Name: Gabriel Francis McEvoy
Date of Birth: 17 September 2004
Time of Birth: 08:56 am
Weight at Birth: 8lbs
Place of Birth: Bristol UK

Baby, Mother (and Father) all doing well.

Maisie McEvoy @ Bristol

Maisie McEvoy exploring the hands on science centre in Bristol.

You can also see an Aardman Animation exhibition as well.