Thomas Silkjær | Graphic design & photography

As promised, I have tried to take a few photos of some of the things we did this weekend:

Check flickr to see more.

The last 5 weeks I have been on my last school period. Studying graphic design in denmark, you have to complete a "Journeyman's test"/final exam, which we spend the last two weeks with. I passed it - so now I am done with school!

After two weeks of work, I "defended" my products, the examiners apparently liked my work: got an A (12) and a silver medal (highest possible) and an examiner offered me a job in Odense (staying where I'm currently employed though - I like my job).

We have also almost decided a name for our baby girl - Thilde. We are still really looking forward to august! This weekend we spend some time making the apartment ready for her arrival - changing table, new desk (bar desk-ish) etc. Hopefully I'll be able to upload a few photos later tonight.

As I wrote earlier we had a 3D/4D ultrasound appointment a couple of weeks ago - it didn't quite go as planned, since our little baby girl didn't want to show her face.

We were given a new time for an ultrasound yesterday, which happily went much better. I have uploaded a few photos to Flickr, here's a couple of them:

As time closes in on August, it help us getting things done and all the necessary (and the more unnecessary) shopping done. In other words, we went shopping this weekend.

The two major things being the pram and the bed - pictures:

The pram is a Odder Cecilia Classic - you can read more about it (in danish) here.

The Leander bed is a really beautiful bed, giving us many opportunities. This is what Leander says about the bed:

The Leander Bed combines user-friendliness with a considered design; beautiful, simple and functional. Uniquely, the bed grows with the child, matching his or her change in needs as they progress from a baby to toddler and then older child. One purchase gives you 4 items of furniture in a single package.

For a complete list of things, you can visit my wife's blogpost on the subject (a not so fantastic translation Google ...).

Today I migrated my blog to a new server - it has been the plan for quite a while, since I bought a new VPS from a european hosting center.

Until now, my sites have run on a Media Temple (dv) server, but one of my most visited sites is danish, wiinyt.dk, and the ping times to servers located in USA just isn't optimal. Instead I found a hosting center in Germany, yourshelter.net, and ping times are now 20-30ms instead of Media Temples 190-200ms.

So if the site loads faster for people in EU than others, this is why.