still got time...

While poor Mrs McMuffin is already suffering from a lack of sleep and any time for herself, I have been finding the whole parent thing relatively easy. I get woken up a couple of times every night, but I can soon get back off to sleep. Babycake has decided that he cannot bear to be parted from her breasts. Apparently this is quite normal behaviour and goes on for a couple of weeks while he trains her to produce enough milk to meet his needs.

Having a baby hardly seems to have interfered with my routine at all. I get up at about the same time and play on the computer for a while. I go out shopping for a couple of hours every afternoon. I have decided that Mrs McMuffin will go shopping at the weekend for a couple of hours and I will keep the boy at home, and suffer any consequences for that.

Well, enough of all this baby stuff, this has been a good week for technology. I got myself a lovely Lacie external DVD writer. The Superdrive that is fitted into the Mac is now three years old and only burns at 1X speed, which was driving my a little bit mad. The new machine burns single layer discs at 16X speed and dual layer discs at 8X speed. A disc that used to take 50 minutes can now be burned in just under 4 minutes. The best bit is that it only cost £79. Wonderful.

I have also got us the new IPEVO phone, the first Skype phone for Macs. It is very cool looking and seems to work brilliantly. The only problem that I can see is that taking my telephonic technology into the future appears to involve a step backwards into the past. I now have a wired phone again. Surely it can't be that hard to make a bluetooth version of the phone?

Finally, I have found a really cool app. It's called CoverFlow. It does fantastic things with your iTunes cover art. You have to see it to believe it. You can download it from here.