“What are you looking at?” asked the 3yr old (3 and a half, she would correct me).
“My website”, which I explained as a place where I write little stories.
“I want a website too”
So much like I did for myself for the first time in 1993, I opened up a textpad and we started writing. First she wanted to claim the page as her own, with saying her name and saying it is her site. Then she wanted to type something random, and adding the names of me and E, and uncle H. She typed all the letters of our names that I for the most part pointed out to her on the keyboard. As a last step she asked me to show the Elsa and Anna pictures (which I normally do with Google’s image search), so she could pick one for her page. After each step we loaded the file in the browser to look at it. And the final result living on my local webserver is:
@ton I love this!
@smokey over dinner she told my wife “oh by the way, I have my own website now” ๐
@ton ๐
This week I
Visited Brussels for the Science Fiction Economics Lab, which was a lot of fun
Did a sprint review on the energy poverty project, as well as a briefing on a circular economy workshop for next week, both for a province
For another province sketched out the role and process for an open data coordinator
Worked one day from home, while also visiting the dentist
Prepared a workshop for the National Archives with my colleague Frank
Spent Friday with the 3yr old as usual, making her first web page with her a.o.
Had a lovely long dinner with E, while the little one was having a sleepover with her nieces
Belsize 46, by David Howard, license CC BY
I usually get up an hour or more before E and Y do. When Y wakes up she assumes Iโm in my office, comes in and climbs on my lap. While Iโm typing she sometimes asks to edit her website together, or grabs a post-it and draws something. This one she attached to one of my screens as a gift yesterday morning.