What a shocker it was, thankfully I didn't go to the game.

Any Docker fans here?

Here is what they need to do...

1. Drop Tarrant - he is playing as if he couldn't care less.
2. Drop Campell - we have had him on our list for years and he has only played a handful of games. He can not play football, he played rugby as a youngster and has no idea of what he is doing.
3. Get Sandilands to thump the ball forward 20 metres at every bounce down. At the very least we gain 20 mtrs, and we may even score a goal out of a few of them.
4. Put a cracker up the bumb of a number of players... people that come to mind are Peake, Gilmore, Mundy, Johnson, and Schammer.
5. Start to handball 10-15 mtrs away from congestion, these 1 mtr handballs to people in the same trouble as you are are absolutely pointless.
6. Run forwards at all cost.
7. Attack attack attack.
8. Oh, did i mention to tell farmer to stop giving away free kicks and 50 mtr penalties?

Very Frustrated indeed!!!!

Great discussion going on over here about Celebrities on Minti

Here are some photos of Earth Hour.

I turned out our lights... did you?

Here is a satellite photo of 8PM everywhere around the world last year. Not sure how they did this exactly, but it was obviously done by satellite...

Cause for concern...

Great to see this year...

A photo that this person argues is inaccurate...

City of Perth... well done!

Thankfully she is allowed home tomorrow, because she is really sick and tired of being confined to a hospital and also worn out from all the visitors.

She will feel much better at home.

yippee

NickyJade got Minti reviewed in the "That's Life" magazine a few weeks ago and it helped boost the membership on Minti.

Thanks NickJade !

OK - i just found this Minti group Take 5 and That's Life Mag

This group is getting a bunch of traffic.

Can someone please tell me what its about and why it is so popular?

Thanks much

Rachel and Joshua 45 mins after birth.

Joshua's birth weight

OMG I have 2 sons...

Here is a quick video of Joshua only hrs old.

Codi is in the back ground barking like a puppy dog at the end ;)

If you are looking for pics of Joshua's 1st day alive go here.

I am stunned how similar they look, even though born 3.5 yrs apart.

Here is Codi 1 day old v's Joshua 1 day.

Joshua looks like he has more hair, but no eye brows, but they both seem to have the same nose and mouth (although you can't see Joshua's in this photo).

They look like twins to me ;)

== edited this post 27th mar 08 - flipped joshua's photo ==

Rachel was induced this morning and less than 2 hrs later out "popped" baby Joshua Ambrose Cook. Well not really "popped", there were a few major concerns with his heart beat and oxygen levels, and a bunch more people rushed in, but the baby was delivered swiftly..... Joshua finally started crying after what seemed liked the longest minute of my life so far (and then I finally stopped crying), and now baby and mom/mum are doing just fine!

And here are the photos...

1 more sleep, then we will welcome Joshua into the world

Here is a Google search that shows how many articles have been indexed into Google.

This is great news as we really are helping people that have never heard of Minti before. They don't need to come to Minti and run a search, they just have to type it into google and hopefully a relevant article will appear for them.

Yep - Easter and resourcing has meant the new big features are slightly delayed.

Found out today that our family increases by 1 next Wed morning!

Joshua will be born after 39 weeks. Fingers crossed...

this issue has been fixed now

sorry about the inconvenience.

Codi and I went for a walk today and checked out the Art being displayed on Cottesloe beach at the moment. We also checked out the waves and surfers near by.

Did you know Minti's Kristen prints and sells amazing t-shirts for all you moms and babies out there!

Here are some cool ones i found below.

Go here to see them all.

... are coming soon.

Hopefully just 7 days...

- edited 12th mar 08 -

Hey,

We missed Minti's 2nd Birthday :s

I believe we launched 8th March 2006.

If you are not seeing the latest Minti editor toolbar (go here to see an image of what it should look like)... then all you need to do is go to the following URL (http://www.minti.com/fckeditor/fckconfig.js) and press refresh on your browser.

Once you have done this, the next time you see a Minti editor toolbar, it will be the latest version

Well - I am baby sitting Codi as he suddenly got sick at Pre-Kindy and Rach picked him up.

He has a temp of 103.1 F (39.5 C). Poor little thing is very hot listless. Watching TV with me watching him closely.

Rach is off to see if baby Joshua is going to be induced or not.

Your "watch list" should be much quicker now

We upgraded it the other day...

Sorry about losing the "insert image" icon the other day.

Just to let you know... it is back!

Have you noticed the new voting system?

You can also now add YouTube videos to your articles.

See my latest article on swaddling.

I believe that the Auto Duplicate Article check was upgraded yesterday, so it is not so sensitive.

Sorry for the hassles recently.

Please let me know if you notice any improvement, or if it still seems sensitive.

Video of babies kicking inside their mommies tummies...

By the way - Currently I am seeing this with baby Joshua. Only 2-4 weeks to go!

I am shocked to see that this "parenting tips" video has received 691,792 views!

I watched it, and just can't understand why it's so popular

Here is a video of how to use Minti...

apparently the embed button is working for all browsers now. i have been told that this is a caching issue. all you need to do is a hard refresh of a minti blog page. This will force the browser to load the latest version of all images etc on the webpage you are viewing and will also load the latest toolbars for the FCK editor.

To do a hard refresh on a PC, hold down the shift button and click the browser refresh button.

For macs, press the following keys together... command + shift + r

By the way - the insert image icon is now missing and will be added back again tomorrow ;)

Trying to land in strong winds the other day, fortunately it pulled up at the last moment...

I should have explained how to embed a YouTube video into a blog post or comment.

Here goes, follow these steps...

And then your done.

Note: This "may" only be working in IE at the moment.

Izzy was first to find the new little YouTube feature.

You can now embed YouTube videos into your blog posts and comments

It is definitely working in IE for me... not sure about Firefox though?

Here is one of my favourite YouTube videos...

People have asked us why did we return from the US back to Perth?

The fish and chips by the river and ocean off course! ;)

Codi and I regularly walk this path, and the scenery is so amazing that I finally decided to take some photos and upload them into Minti for you all to enjoy...

Codi running ahead of me...

Looking at the river...

The view...

Was surprised to see another baby focused website featured on TechCrunch the other day. There was no reference to Minti in the article, and also no mention of Minti yet in the comments.

TechCrunch (Michael Arrington) was not overjoyed to write about Parenting/Baby related sites back then. Minti was the first reviewed 2 years ago (March 2006), but since then he has reviewed many, and each time he does so he attracts a lot of comments as well as page views.

In the original review of Minti he mentioned..

There are good reasons not to mention Minti and push traffic to it - it’s actually not doing anything feature wise that’s new and it’s another walled garden of content.