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Bad Behavior has blocked 1049 access attempts in the last 7 days.

I just updated Usermin, and so wanted to make sure that my custom modules didn't break. And in the process, poked around through my webalizer module, which shows the things that people type into search engines to end up at our blog as well as the number of hits for certain pages. ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 19, 2008, 12:45 pm
Category: Reviews

VMWare 1.0.5 Server patch for 2.6.25 kernel

I had the privilege of installing VMWare 1.0.5 on a brand new 2.6.25 kernel. I downloaded the 2.6.XX patch for vmware 1.0.4 , applied the one change from asm to linux in vcpuset.h. That had worked for me before when using 1.0.5 on a 2.6.24 kernel, but today I downloaded a 2.6.25... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 18, 2008, 12:28 am
Category: Programming

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

Jonathan Likes to Sing

Jonathan is very often singing or humming now as he works or plays. He knows the first and last verses of Amazing Grace and parts of the middle verses. He likes the "What's in the Honeypot" song from his piano lesson CD, as well as the version of "This Old Man"... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 4, 2008, 10:20 am
Category: Jonathan

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

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

Feedjit Statistics

Copying the rest of you cool bloggers, I installed feedjit a while back. I originally thought it wasn't going to be very useful, since I assumed that all of the international hits were the many search engines that like crawl the blog all day long, or worse, spammers trying to post... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 28, 2008, 3:17 pm
Category: Reviews

Debian Installed Relatively Painlessly on my Sony Laptop

I am sure this will excite many of our normal readers, but I have finally (after four years) switched my laptop to Linux. Now that I am using it everyday, it is much nicer to be in this environment, instead of having putty windows all over the place. Perhaps if I had a better... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 28, 2008, 11:56 am
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

Quickening

Last week I felt the baby moving. This is always a fun thing for a mom, to feel that physical connection to the baby. However, this quickening has brought with it an element of surprise. I do tend to feel my babies early, but that still brings me to at least 14 weeks... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 18, 2008, 3:46 pm
Category: Pregnancy

Fun for the Morning

I woke up this morning to find Taiwan's Yahoo server rejecting emails that were supposedly sent using my server. I originally figured it was the regular old spammer trick of using invalid return addresses until I noticed that it was one of my servers who was reporting the failure, rather... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 18, 2008, 11:55 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

Parcel ID parser

I don't know if it is only relevant to Allegheny County or if it is more universal, but a friend asked me to write a parcel id (parcel/block/lot) parser to help him out in his real estate searches. It was kind of a fun project (3 hours) and it was neat to see how well it worked out in... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2008, 10:13 pm
Category: Programming

Phun Computer Programming for Jonathan

I found a nifty application (watch the youtube video for an idea of how it works) for playing around, and Jonathan and spent at least a couple hours today playing with it. It simulates gravity, friction, inertia and things like that. Jonathan enjoyed it and asked about it when we... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 8, 2008, 8:33 pm
Category: Reviews