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Normally, when we have an update to a post, we just put it in the comments, but since I've entered us in the 30-Day Challenge , here's a separate post to link up. Now before any other "challengees" faint when they see my pictures, I'll remind you that we have guests coming... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 9, 2007, 8:14 am
Category: General

Life as an Immigrant

Jon asked me to post this essay written by our friend. Life as an Immigrant By Marc Brands From 1993 to 1996 I did an apprenticeship in Electronics Engineering at Siemens. In Switzerland apprenticeships are very common, students attend about 16 hours of classes... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 17, 2007, 3:59 pm
Category: General

Anti-spam tool for Web Forms

I got a couple spams through my Lime Daley contact form the last couple days, so I took another look at the script that I was using. I wrote it a year or two ago, and was my first attempt at writing an anti-spam tool that was designed to have a 0% false negative rate (ie. humans can't... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 4, 2007, 8:36 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

15 Months

Noah is 30lb 12 oz, 34 1/2" tall. He's getting over a cold, so the doctor could see fluid in both ears, but it's mild and Noah doesn't even care about it. If he slows down enough, his arms move in cross pattern with his walking, but usually he's speed walking or... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 3, 2007, 11:21 am
Category: Noah

Kill-A-Watt

Peter was nice enough to loan me a Kill-A-Watt for a couple weeks to investigate power usage around our home. I have thought about buying one before, but borrowing one is certainly better, though it is quite a bit of fun to test out devices to see how much power they use. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 25, 2007, 8:25 pm
Category: Reviews

Using tcpd_wrappers with pure-ftpd

pure-ftpd isn't designed to work with TCP wrappers, which is unfortunate, because then I can't simply add an ip address to /etc/hosts.deny to block the hackers when they guess passwords. But, since the hackers have tried to login to my servers thirty thousand times this month, and... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 19, 2007, 4:04 pm
Category: Programming

Spammers

I hadn't checked my log file in a while for my Lime Daley contact page , but happened to check it today. There have been 438 spams sent in the last two months, and 2 legitimate emails. The spam filter (I wrote it - which is probably why it works - that my site isn't big enough for... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 30, 2007, 10:57 pm
Category: Reviews

Calendar History

Someone at snurgle pointed this out to me. I understand that things like this can happen, but when I type "cal 9 1752", it seems strange to see this output: September 1752 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 28, 2007, 8:15 am
Category: General

Banned Comments?

For those of you who have gotten an "You entered an invalid URL" message when leaving a comment, no I didn't set out to ban you from commenting - it is that you didn't put an "http://" in front of your URL. Due to some security bugs, the input checking code was... (More)

Posted by jondaley on July 9, 2007, 4:54 pm
Category: Programming

Walk

I went on a fairly long walk tonight (take a look at the topological map too, there were some decent hills) - I am in Seattle with one of my customers who is having their annual retreat, and invited me to come along. We are staying at the Palisades Retreat Center , which is a lovely place to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 13, 2007, 1:30 am
Category: Reviews

Comparison Pictures

One is Jonathan at 9 months, one is Noah at (almost) 11 months. Can you tell who is who? There is at least one environmental clue in the pictures themselves, but don't look at the links until you've made your guess. (More)

Posted by joyful on June 9, 2007, 8:34 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Writing, Favorite Color, Familiar

Not to be outdone by his brother , Jonathan has some interesting things for a blog post today, too. Recently, he's been enjoying cutting out paper shapes that he draws or that I draw for him. This morning he asked me to draw the picture from the first page of Curious... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 23, 2007, 2:11 pm
Category: Jonathan

It's Worth Finding A Good Pediatric Dentist!

Last month, I took Jonathan for his first dental checkup and cleaning. He did a great job, asking lots of questions and generally having a good time. But they did discover two huge fillings. The regular dentist doesn't do fillings for kids, so she had us make an appointment... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 30, 2007, 11:40 am
Category: General, Jonathan

Noah: 9 Months

24 pounds, 9 ounces. 30 inches tall. He didn't cry a single whimper for his shot or any of the blood drawing for his hemoglobin and lead tests. What a brave, tough guy! He's added water (flicking his ear with his fingers - an unfortunate way to say it, but... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 26, 2007, 4:40 pm
Category: Noah

Global Warming

We got our gas bill for February - the highest we have gotten in a long time. Apparently, the average temperature was eleven degrees colder than last year, causing us to use two and a half time more gas than we did last February. We did leave our heat on more last month than usual, but... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 5, 2007, 3:41 pm
Category: Reviews