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And Anyone Can Install Debian Linux on a Desktop
It took some amount of work to get Linux up and running on my laptop , but I just got a new computer ($50 from Peter's workplace - let me or him know if you are interested, there might be some more left) and installed Linux in an hour two, including copying all the old data from the old... (More)
Posted by jondaley on April 14, 2008, 6:10 pm
Category: Reviews
First Midwife Appointment - 19 Weeks
Tuesday, we all went to the Midwife Center for our first appointment.  Nancy is the midwife with whom I had my last appointment during Isaac's pregnancy.  She said she was surprised to see us, but happy that we did choose the Center.  We had a good conversation about the various... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 9, 2008, 9:20 pm
Category: Pregnancy
Jon Felt A Kick!
Last night I had Jon put his hand on my belly while I was reading to everyone at bedtime.  I figured that was an easy way to wait patiently for a kick, since we'd have a story to listen to.  Sure enough, about five minutes later, he felt one! (More)
Posted by joyful on April 7, 2008, 11:47 am
Category: Pregnancy
Noah Likes Blenheim
Whenever Daddy opens a bottle of Blenheim ginger ale, Noah takes several sips, too. Tuesday (4/2) Noah thoroughly inspected the dishwasher handle.  You can tell he's in a family of engineers! He can say "mommy" now, though not consistently.  He also says... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 4, 2008, 9:59 am
Category: Noah
Happy April Fool's Day
It seems to be the idea this year to release the April Fool's day jokes early, perhaps to give them more credibility, or maybe simply to join with the Australians. I hadn't heard of the spaghetti tree joke before, but that is a pretty good one.  I showed Jonathan and Noah the... (More)
Posted by jondaley on April 1, 2008, 10:39 am
Category: Reviews
LifeType 1.2.7 released
After a slightly hectic day yesterday, when I noticed some strange behavior on one of my servers, we released a new version of LifeType .  While I am not impressed that the bug existed in the first place, I think it is pretty neat that a development fixed was released within 4 hours of... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 30, 2008, 8:38 pm
Category: Programming, Reviews
Easter Stargazing
We had Easter dinner at the Venables with four families (total.)  It was a fun time and we got home after it was fully dark.  As I was getting Noah out of the car I noticed that the sky was perfectly clear and the stars were shining as much as you can expect in a city.  I saw... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 23, 2008, 9:00 pm
Category: General, Jonathan
Note to Self
When a customer says that he has a smaller project than the one I just did, don't pay attention, and think about the quote, rather than simply estimating the time as less than the previous project. Yesterday, I did a project for a friend (one who let me have better access than average... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2008, 9:27 pm
Category: Programming
Where Does The Time Go? (the numbers are even correct this time...)
Shortly after I posted the first analysis of my time , I realized that my hours per day calculation were kind of off, since I was counting 7 day weeks, and I basically never work on Sundays.  As I am redoing the calculations, I see that I must have been doing something strange to try get... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 4, 2008, 11:58 am
Category: Reviews
Taxes
Whew... For some reason, taxes took longer than they have in other years.  Part of the time was spent trying to get out of a federal tax penalty for not calculating the estimated taxes correctly.  We spent 14.63 hours (courtesy of worklog ), mostly together working on them.  I... (More)
Posted by jondaley on February 7, 2008, 12:47 pm
Category: General
Where Does The Time Go?
Some people have asked where my time is spent, now that I am working from home.  I don't keep track of non-computer time, but I do keep track of when I am on my laptop, partially to see where I am spending my time, and partially for billing reasons. I found this handy software called... (More)
Posted by jondaley on January 28, 2008, 2:15 pm
Category: Reviews
Perl Debugging
Our photo album wouldn't publish on this last update, and it took quite a while to figure out what the problem was.Originally, the error had to do with the library Encode not being compiled correctly, and I had to run enc2xs on the Encode module.  I am not sure whose "fault"... (More)
Posted by jondaley on January 17, 2008, 3:16 pm
Category: Programming
VPNC / Resolvconf / Set search string
I found what I would call a bug in resolvconf today, though probably most people don't run a VPN server like I wanted to, so no one ever noticed before. The internal DNS server at one of my clients somehow loses its connection to folks connected via the VPN.  That is an unsolved... (More)
Posted by jondaley on January 14, 2008, 11:06 pm
Category: Programming
Noah Chipped A Tooth
I was washing my hands at the bathroom sink, and Noah came excitedly running up with a toy boat.  But in his excitement, he smashed his face into the corner of the sink.  He cried surprisingly little, considering that there was blood in his mouth.  But I didn't notice the chip... (More)
Posted by joyful on December 18, 2007, 5:40 pm
Category: Noah
Fun with Spam
I have been getting a bunch of spam through my contact form over the last couple of days, so I thought I would check out what they are trying to do.  The domain's contact information is protected by privacyprotect.org, so we can't know who they are, though I filled out a form showing... (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 13, 2007, 9:53 am
Category: Programming
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