Congrats to Tristan and Melinda for the birth of little (and oh-so-cute) Ebony, around 4:00 AM Thursday in the carpark of the hospital! I'm glad to know, despite that additional and unexpected excitement, that things went smoothly :)

In natively mundane news, the election is over and nothing changed. Now we'll finally have a reprieve from the nightly political mug-slinging that infected the news, at least until next year when the new majority senate starts rubber-stamping laws. I found the live vote count show unusually hypnotic - the mix of those shiny 3D bar graphs and pie charts with the !fireup political analysts must have resonated on some level with a prehistoric part of my brain. Then again, it might have been because I was in a bar at the time.

Tonight has seen a front move in and provide hours of constant rain. It's been so long since there's been any rain that the concept of water falling from the sky felt like an extraordinary anomaly of reality. According to statistical analysis it should continue for the next two days.

There's one good thing about elections for me: the number of political ads on TV increases, thus reducing the number of Telstra Mobile ads.

This Friday should see the birth of Tristan and Mel's second bouncing baby! \o/

The Ansari X-Prize was won on Monday, with SpaceShipOne easily making 100 km, though there wasn't a lot on the news about it. I watched it live via the web stream but the number of users trying to do the same was causing the server to drop out regularly. I'd still like to see Armadillo Aerospace hit the 100 km mark.

Another board design has been finished and printed and looks great. Today I'll deliver the next two designs that have been on the drawing board, including one of my favourites (Orion Gold). The site for Cardboards Kitesurfing is also now online, though there have been some server load issues where it's hosted. Hopefully the hosting service will sort that out in the next couple of days, as it's making the site sluggish to view when it shouldn't be.