Last month Sherry received an email from the editor of triple j’s jmag (in Australia) asking if she’d be able to write an article for the magazine. She agreed, and to a very tight schedule put together a list of “Things You Didn’t Know About Flight of the Conchords”.

The magazine is now out and her article gets a full two pages. Go pick up a copy now.

You can also follow her on twitter.

Don’t forget to check out What the Folk! for Flight of the Conchord news too.

On Friday we took Galen to get his hair cut. It had grown a little bit too long.

Sitting on my lap, he was fine to start with.

But soon became unimpressed.

It was all worth it though. We think the result is pretty adorable.

And so ends another year.

2008 was one of the hardest, but also most rewarding, years of my life.

Some of my favourite moments:

• Helping catch Galen as he was born in the sitting room or our home
• Seeing mum and Nick again
• Every moment with Galen
• Scoring my first 100 in cricket
• Writing and releasing another software application for a business and seeing a significant positive impact to that business
• Our trip to Belfast to see a certain group perform

Some of my least favourite moments:

• Spending a Saturday night saving our property from a flood
• Losing a cricket match when the other team needed 32 runs from the last 8 balls
• The “summer”
• Some of those nappies

There were a lot more positives than negatives.

As expected, Galen has turned our lives upside down. In 2009 I hope that I can restore a little bit of balance to my life.

It’s 11:15pm and I’m at my desk, in our cottage, slowly getting things ready so that we can move back home.

Carpets and lino were laid on Thursday and it looks great downstairs. We now have carpet in the hall, in the bathroom, and underlay under it all. Mmm, comfort.

Sherry’s computer got fried in the flood, so with the insurance money plus a bit extra I bought her a 20″ iMac which I’m now in the process of setting up. Part of this involves copying over all her data. Said data is on a number of partitions spanning three drives.

To get the data over I am doing the following:

• Plug HDD in to borrowed computer
• Enable Internet sharing over the iMac’s ethernet port
• Plug a spare router in to the iMac, and then to the borrowed computer
• Boot computer with a Gentoo Minimal Live CD
• Start sshd server
• Find the right partition(s) on the drive and mount them
• On the iMac, connect to the machine via SFTP
• Drag files over to the iMac
• Repeat for each drive

It’s hard to describe just how much I’m looking forward to going Mac –> Mac in the future.

It’s nearly five weeks now since we moved out of our home.

Thankfully, they’re nearly at the point where they can put carpet and lino back in which means we should be home by the end of next week, just in time for Christmas.

Our gorgeous little man was 7 months old yesterday. It seems like only yesterday that I caught and then welcomed him into the world.