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Hamish, male
6 weeks old
 
 
 
  On Minti Since:
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My god-daughter Hannah
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I am a co-founder of Minti.... Happily married with a baby boy born 11 April 08, and a proud god-father of two boys and one girl who are spread around the world.

  • One godson: Archie, is in London.
  • One godson: Kieren is in my hometown of Perth, Australia and
  • my God-daughter: Hannah, is in Johannesburg South Africa (until recently was in Boston USA)

I come from a large modern family which includes 2 divorces, 4 half sisters, 2 full brothers and a step-sister. At one stage in my teens I had 13 different Grandparents and Great-grandparents who were alive (though not all sending Christmas presents ;) )

I try to balance work and play as much as possible in my life and decided to move back to Perth after 11 years in Europe because of the great weather and many lifestyle choices (beach, tennis, fishing, cafe's, etc) I was pretty surprised to discover how much exciting and cutting edge business is going on in our little (1.5m people) town :)

Many of my siblings were born whilst I was in my late teens so I had plenty of experience putting kids to sleep, changing nappies and so on...

I have worked in over 20 countries over the past 17 years with a focus on mergers and acquisitions in the telecoms field having been at companies such as PwC Consulting, Swisscom, Deutsche Telecom and Equant.


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30
Apr

Little Hamish update

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The family are all home and getting to know each other better.  Here is Hamish in one of his more inquisitive moods.

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Apr

This is Hamish

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Hamish was born on Friday night weighing 4.175kgs ( 9lbs 2oz ) after a very long day.

Mum (Mom) and bub are both well and so is this very proud Dad... much love to all of you at Minti

Day 1 Hospital

 

08
Apr

Minti Scheduled Downtime this Wednesday

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Hi Minti folks

There is going to be a major upgrade to Minti going live during the course of tomorrow.  This is likely to require the site to close down for 15 mins or so whilst the changes are brought from our development area onto the live site.  There will be a lot of new stuff to explore one it gets live and I wont spoil the fun too much by telling you all the details 

We are planning to make this update at around 11am Wednesday 9th April Perth time which is:

1pm in Sydney on 9th April

4am in London on 9th April

8pm in San Francisco on 8th April

So please be warned that Minti may shut down for a short time around about then 

A lot of time and effort has gone into the many improvements we are introducing and we really hope that all of our faithful members enjoy the improvements ! 

with best wishes Matt

PS The new baby boy who was due last Thursday is running a little late but we are hoping he will make a show this week

25
Mar

New Spell Checking in Firefox

Comment Published at 20:0420:045 comments5 comments24 Visits24 VisitsReport

If you use the free Firefox browser (download from here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ ) and happen to make a typo during your entry of blogs, comments, articles or anything else on Minti you will see a red underline appear below the text with the typo.

If you hold down your CTRL-key and at the same time Right-click on the typo word you will be shown spelling options to replace the mistake !    Spell checking in Minti now automatic for Firefox users - just remember to use CTRL-key if you want to right click for alternative spelling options !

Unfortunately this does not work with Microsoft Internet Explorer yet

All the best from Matt

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