Jean's highchair has non-removable straps which had abviously started their live as white but where a darkish brown instead. I had tried to clean them with just a wipe down but this failed, I put ace one them - this removed maybe 2 % of the staining. Then I moved on to carpet cleaners and then things like vanish oxi which I mixed into a paste applied and left for ages. Then to the shower for a thouror rinsing (we didnt want any nasty chemicals on Jean). This last one removed about 50% of the brown colouring but the straps still looked discoloured.
It had taken months to get this far as I have to weight until Fridays when Jeans in nursery and I have nothing else todo. To my dispair the straps still looked festy even though I know they probably weren't - we decided to give up.
Then the highchair got left outside after the party and it rained and rained and rained - when we bought it in again to our suprise the straps were gleaming white! There is still some brown staining around the seams and stitching but thats it! Of course as soon as Jean eats a bannana they will revert I'm sure 🙂
The thing is this is a bit scary cos I ran loads of water over the straps in the shower and it didnt remove the stain so surely its not just the movement of the water on the straps? Ok so rain water is a lot finer than the shower so maybe it pemeated the material better? But still it would suggest to me that some thing in the rain was acting as a cleaning or bleaching agent - I am left wondering about acid rain - carbonic acid, sulphuric acid? Hmmmmm.....
For a project, I'm having to write some Java code to talk to a Domino server.
Finding any references on how to do this is a BIG pain, so for posterity, here is what I've found.
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In the UK right now, just about every electronic component, PCB, or whatnot is being labelled RoHS Compliant.
In particular, this means that Maplin, the only local place I can just drive to to pick up electronic components and tools, is now only selling lead-free solder.
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The kittens have been being stupidly cute again - we tend to chuck them out of the bedroom at night as they pounce on you as anyone who's stayed here knows! Well we turfed one last night and thought the other was down stairs - however I proceeded to have a strange dream that the baby had crawled out of her cot and into our bed for a snuggle.
In a half dream state at some point in the night I reached out to stroke her hair and lo! A warm furry bundle was snuggled up next to me 🙂 So then being the heartless person I am I got Al to turf it out of the bedroom.
The other thing they keep doing is sitting on the window sill and watching the birds on the bird table - in fact there was just a huge thunk as Hydrogen tried to catch one though a closed window! Minni has also been caught watching the birds her tail flicking backwards and forwards - a stupid kitten thought this was a toy this morning and pounced and then was shocked and upset when minni chased her out of the house 🙂 We love having cats!
It's always struck me as odd that IP routes a packet to a transport-level protocol such as UDP, ICMP, or TCP and then lets that protocol handle routing it to an application process.
Since an application is likely to require a few different types of service for different parts of its operations, shouldn't the specification of the target application be more important than the transport mechanism?
Wouldn't it make sense to be able to send a UDP request to 'port 80' just as easily as you can send a TCP request, rather than requiring the web server to bind separate UDP and TCP listener sockets?
These chains of thought led me to design the MERCURY protocol.
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Domestic | sarah | 
Thu 7th Sep 2006 11:57 am | 
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