Writ of Mainprize

My brother’s (Iain) and his wife’s (Laura) new baby girl was born on Monday at 2:21pm. My niece is Liana Mainprize (which looks suspiciously like a combination of Iain and Laura, but apparently it’s just a fluke!) Mom and baby are happy, healthy and tired.
I can’t wait to see them!

Olivia and I got some very encouraging news about Olivia’s PR application. I have been approved as “Sponsor” and Olivia’s application has been marked as “complete” – not quite approval, but the last step before it. Apparently we have to wait for the local office to contact us (how? letter? phone?) and then go through the final stage.
It took a very long time for this process (we submitted last May!), and the only feedback that you can get is the “wait times” listed on the government website. You feel kind …

I was working on writing a Windows based application for work that was using WTL and DockingWindows and I was getting the strangest bug. When I used Visual Studio 2005 Express and compiled in Debug Mode, everything worked fine, but in Release Mode, one of the docking windows which was an “Owner Drawn” ListViewCtrl would never draw. The docking window container would appear, but the background would never fill and the list would certainly never show. Strangely, it ran just fine if it was compiled in VS 2005 Professional.

I’ve finally upgraded my gallery site to “Gallery 2″ (I wish they had a better name… Gallery is so generic). I’ve used the Carbon theme which is fairly ubuiqitous among Gallery users, but it is certain a very clean, modern looking theme that makes it easy to view photos. I’ve also upgraded the link between my Movable Type blogs and Gallery by rewriting MTGalleryLink to support version 2. It’s been seriously hacked, and much of the functionality is gone. Oh well, at least …

With two Highland games completed this year, the newly re-formed Grade 3 version of the Toronto Police Pipe Band has earned a 3rd at Georgetown and a 1st at Sarnia. For me, this is momentous, it’s the first time I’ve played with a band that has gotten a first at a “Championship Supreme” games!
The medley is quite good, and hopefully I can get my hands on a video of the performance at Sarnia. I do have clips of the MSR at Georgetown. There’s a few photos too!