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Miranda Lucy Lilly McCormack was born at 20:29 (Sydney time) on Monday 30th June 2008 weighing 4.16kg (9lb 2.8oz).  Both Deborah and Miranda are doing remarkably well.  Photos are in the Gallery.

We are now pleased to be home after spending five nights in hospital - one having been induced and waiting for labour and then four further nights for recovery (this is standard for a natural birth at our hospital).  Deborah was in labour for five hours and despite the epidural only partially working, there were no problems with the delivery.

As requested, the obstetrician passed Miranda to me and I then placed her on Deborah’s chest before cutting the cord.  Miranda has lost a little more of her birth weight than we would like, so we need to keep an eye on her feeding until Deborah’s milk comes in fully.

It is great to be home and sleeping in our own bed, despite it only being for two hours at a time due to the feeding plan to increase Miranda’s weight.

Speaking of which - I need to have a nap now!  More news later.

I use Firefox as my browser of choice for all of the usual reasons - security, stability, extendibility …

I recently had a problem with one of my favourite add-ons after I deleted and recreated my profile.  Foxmarks is a great utility that allows you to synchronise your bookmarks across multiple Firefox installations (study, laptop, work etc).

I use Foxmarks to sync with my WebDAV server over HTTPS.  The problem was that when I deleted my profile and tried to set up Foxmarks, I was getting “Unknown Error 8179″ when I tried to sync.  Google wasn’t helping either (hence I thought that I should post something).

The error was caused because I was using self-signed SSL certificates and I had not yet told Firefox about my own Certificate Authority.  As soon as I downloaded my CA file and set it to trusted, everything worked again.

Hope this helps you.