Yes I’m feeling slightly self-indulgent today but hey it’s my birthday and amongst other things my beautiful wife bought me a Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboard and a Samsung NC10 in black.

Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboard

This is one of the nicest keyboards I’ve ever used although it doesn’t work quite perfectly under Ubuntu. I’ll blog as soon as I work out all the configuration required to work under Ubuntu.

Samsung NC10

This 10″ netbook is nothing short of brilliant. Currently it is running XP but I’ll soon be replacing that with Ubuntu (Intrepid or Jaunty). There are a couple of issues with this netbook under Ubuntu but I’m sure I’ll get them sorted. I’ll post more in detail when I’ve completed the upgrade.

Just in case I don’t say it enough “I love you Sonia”

And so ends the worst 12 days of my life…

On Jan 15th our baby daughter Sophie (9 days old) was admitted into hospital with suspected Meningitis! Every parents worst nightmare. It turns out she had a group A streptococcus infection (Bacteraemia); just as serious as Meningitis, in fact the same bacteria which causes Meningitis, but quite treatable.

Today we were told that the blood cultures taken on Jan 21st are clean, she no longer has the group A streptococcus bacteria in her blood.

Sonia and I can’t praise the Doctors and Nurses at the Alexandria Hospital, Redditch enough for all the wonderful care they gave Sophie during the worst 12 days of our lives.

Today my 2nd daughter was born weighing 8lb 7oz. Welcome to the world Sophie, lots of love Mum, Dad and your big sister Holly. xxx

I use my Nokia N95 to do a lot of web browsing  on the go but I get reallly ticked off by sites which don’t support mobile web browsers. Most sites could easily support Mobile Web Browsers through server-side detection and a bit of CSS. Sites like OSNews.com and Lifehacker.com both detect my Nokia and display in a Mobile friendly format (240×320) however other sites I visit regularly (Linux.com, Planet Ubuntu, Planet Ubuntu UK, Ubuntu Weblogs and any WordPress blog) all assume you’re using a regular web-browser and display oversized on my Nokia. Unfortunately having said that I’m guilty of non-mobile firendlieness here on AlanDoyle.com BUT I am working on modifying my theme to detect and support mobile web-browsers. End Rant.

Update: I’ve now updated the site to be mobile friendly.

This is just a quick hello to all the readers of Planet Ubuntu UK as I’ve just noticed that I’ve been added to the feed when one of my posts about FreeNX popped up yesterday.

I’m in the process of getting myself more involved in the Community after being on the sidelines for the past 3 years. The spirit of Community within Ubuntu is amazing and now that I’m running Ubuntu as my only OS I’m really starting to appreciate all the hard work the guys and girls at Canonical and the Ubuntu Community at large have put in to Ubuntu, it’s a passion I can relate to.

So well yes, hello again Ubuntu UK people. It’s nice to be here and I hope I can contribute to this awesome Community.