Another birth, another generation

Just over two weeks to go before the new website I am managing the design and build for is due to go live.

Another birth in my life. It seems a litle like that. An eagerly awaited event in the life of those who have an interest, yet an event that is occurring at a frantic rateacross the Internet, thousands of times every day.

So a new website is born. It carries the hopes and dreams of many parents, uncles, aunties, brothers and sisters. It even carries children of its own, all with unlimited possibilities and expectation.

Expectation, that's it! How we have such expectations of the new baby, the new website the next generation.

This new baby happens to be the website of Australia's pre-eminent ICT research organisation. Expectations weigh heavily on all of us. I'll add the link when it's live. [now added]

Meanwhile, I'd better get back to managing the expectations and preparing for the birth!

Eight weeks and 'Booming'

Tomorrow, it's eight weeks since our personal baby boom occurred. How we have been blessed.

Kaelyn has an email address - in fact three - just to be sure, and she is of the generation who will expect that whatever facilities you can access in the Internet, you do. I don't want her to be left behind. She doesn't blog - yet - although I know this is popular among her generation's parents.

I elected not to be a stage dad blogger. She can do without the pressure of such expectation.

For now, she can be contacted via her mum and dad's photo website, and retain a cloak of anonymity for a while.

New Beginnings

So, as previously warned, this blogsite has taken an significant turn... It's no longer the ramblings of a late (read young) baby boomer living in the convergence of Gen X and Gen Y and now contributing to the yet to be named baby boomers of 2000 - 2010.

After a few challenges, Kaelyn came home from hospital and her mum is well on the way to recovery from what turned out to be pre-eclampsia. That really messes with you, but she is improving every day and kaelyn is blooming.

And so the generation spread of influence represented on this blogsite stetches to another level. One of the best things about living and loving and being multi-generational is that there are new beginnings every day... for one of us or another!

Hello and Farewell

On Christmas day, just after 5.00pm, my wife gave birth to our daughter, a precious gift.

Through the power of the internet, and the assistance of my nephew in Adelaide, my mum was able to see up to date pictures of our baby girl and rejoice.

Yesterday, December 30 around 10.30am , after a relatively short illness, my mum died, peacefully, comfortably and with the solid conviction of the promise of eternal life.

Hello and welcome Kaelyn. Farewell Mother.