Weekend roundup

On Sunday morning Bronwyn was up the front with her guitar, leading the worship at our church, which went well. My contribution there is less musical... At the end of last year I took on the job of assisting with maintaining their web site. So far I've just tweaked the existing design and updated some information on the site. Last weekend also saw us move the site to new servers. Percolating in the background though is a complete site redesign, finally putting to productive use the skills I've learned producing this blog. In the meantime you can see the existing church site here.

We were joined for a late Sunday lunch with Brent and Megan, who we've recently got back in contact with after having known them a little in Palmerston North. They're about to move out of London, finding the better life in Harlow, West Essex. It was nice to show them a little of Wimbledon Common and to walk through the Village in an ultimately unfruitful search for hot chocolate. Inspiration hit as we headed back home where we were able to make our own with a new milk frother, just received from friend Sonja as a bonus Christmas present. Brent and Megan head off from London on Saturday but we'd like to think they have not seen the last of us... we hope to experience a little of the idyllic country life in a visit to them in Harlow. We may wait until they move from their initial accommodations though, an (admittedly large) caravan.

Meanwhile, on planet geek Panther is prowling the house, mostly up and running after Saturday's efforts. There are a few final things to iron out, like installing print drivers and the odd application. Invariably you only find these things when you need them immediately, like when Bronwyn wanted to print out a document for school last thing on Sunday night. We're getting there. In the meantime, iLife '04 arrived last night and has now been installed. The best improvement is to iPhoto, which we use to store and manage our digital photos. The new version is markedly faster. Nice.