It strikes me, that when I Blog I do so about a large selection of geek subjects, but not a great deal about myself! So here, this time I will devote this whole Blog entry to me…

Now a happily hitched man, I can firmly say that married life is amazing! Since getting wed over 3 months ago, Claire and I have become even more in love, of course things have changed in both our lives as we adjust to living with each other, but changed for the better! It is quite extraordinary how we both adore to meet each others needs, this, I guess is the whole reason why marriage is such a good thing, because you are constantly thinking of the other person you naturally become closer. As time goes by we learn more and more about each other and our little habits, as Claire has already shared about in a previous Blog entry, many of our ‘features’ soon become cute, and I would imagine we would miss them if one of us stopped.

On the Job front, I am still working at NTL:Telewest and am very happy to be in such a great team. Although at times I do get a little square eyed from looking at the hundreds of tiny little boxes of Microsoft Excel, and sometimes things are a bit laborious, but the I think to myself “This is a company which I have always wanted to work for, and a job which gives me really great experience, and a position that uses my skills and interests”, I like my job!.

My family, I love them all lots! It is strange, having left home nearly 7 years ago, I increasingly feel that my relationship with my parents is growing and I am really proud of both of them. I no longer see my Dad a big ogre but now just take the Micky out of him, he weekly goes out on the hills with the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team, a group of people dedicated to reach out to those who are depressed and suicidal and bring them a bit of hope and love. I really love my Mum for her guidance, I credit a great deal of my domestic training to her, she is currently studying hard to improve her IT skills in order to further her career as a teacher and she is doing really well. As for my legendary brother, he is now living up in Scotland, he is working for YFC (Youth For Christ) and is doing amazing work with the sometimes rough and tumble youth of Inverness, he goes into schools and churches spreading the word of Jesus, along with some more hope and love.

My friends, well that is another story but in a nutshell I am a happy chappy, I have a beautiful wife, go to a great church, have a good job, great parents and amazing friends. Thank you guys!

“Your letter was only the start of it; One letter and now you’re a part of it; Now you’ve done it, Jim has fixed for it you, and you and you and you-ou-ou.” –Jim’ll Fix It Theme Tune

Following the recent mergers of various large companies, ATI and AMD; BT and Yahoo; Friends Reunited and ITV; Skype and Ebay; NTL, Telewest and Virgin Mobile; comes the merger between JLSNet and MSN Spaces! Yes it is true, honest! Sadly no money has exchanged hands and I am not totally sure Microsoft’s solicitors (read: lawyers) know about the affair. In actual fact what has happened is that the JLSNet website now pulls the RSS feed from my MSN Spaces weblog and outputs it in the news section of the site (including this entry!).

JLNset has also had its 5th facelift. Whilst keeping with the general look and feel of the previous design the new coding is 100% valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 and the main site templates are compliant with Section 508 and are WCAG double-A rating, for those of you less technical… it looks pretty!

I have a few more tweaks to make to the site (I always do!) and then I really must start thinking about updating and adding some more content, namely some more Cisco Configuration articles. I am also considering whether to put some of my family history research up on the site, as it would be a great way to share my findings and possibly meet new relations.

“Pour me somethin’ tall and strong; Make it a hurricane before I go insane; It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care; It’s 5 O’clock somewhere” –Alan Jackson Song Lyrics

Hello world! Yes the new Mrs S has been coerced into writing a blog entry. We have now been married for three months which has gone very fast. Married life is great fun, Jim is my best friend and it’s great to wake up with him each day (ahh!). We have learnt new things about each other since getting married such as how Jim regularly leaves his clothes in a special pile on the floor at night and Jim has learnt that I need at least an hour to get ready in the morning before we can go out. Jim’s latest hobby is growing a little patch of lawn in a seed tray which is our ‘garden’. Our small but beautifully formed flat doesn’t have any outside space. Jim is very precise in cutting his grass so that it is all the exact same length, after which he always sits back and admires it with pride (how sweet). We are on the first day of our holiday (Jim is still in bed - how shocking!). We are going to go to the new forest on Monday for a spot of camping, which I am really looking forward to as haven’t been camping in ages. I love the new forest as it reminds me of childhood holidays with my grandparents in their Volkswagen camper van. We always took bikes with us and had great fun cycling around the forest looking at the cute ponies and the big ant hills in Ashurst.

Little Esther Arthur Worsop is geting dedicated tomorrow, she was born on 2nd June 2006 at 8:25pm and is very beautiful with amazing eyes that are very alert - she is always looking at her surroundings. I wonder who she’ll grow up to be - it’s very exciting.

Well I think I’ll end my first blog there, I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Love Claire xxxx

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” –Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice