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30 Day Organizational Challenge Finish Line

Here is my original post to enter the contest, here is my update . Our computer room/guest room is now functional and neat. There are still two actively-being-worked-on server computers on the card table in the room. We had hoped to have them both in their finished... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 30, 2007, 11:27 am
Category: General

November in a Nutshell

This month has been full, busy, and blog-sparse. Because we're actually living life instead of blogging about it! But here goes: Noah is experimenting more with sounds. He copies a lot. Still not much consistently, but here are some things we've heard him say:... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 27, 2007, 7:00 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Isaac, Noah

Challenge Update

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

30 Day Organizational Challenge

My friends Bonnie and Liz participated in the last Challenge, and quite intimidated me by doing so. But I put OrgJunkie's blog in my reader (one of only three strangers' blogs I read) and have slowly been gaining confidence. The real enouragement I give myself is to note what... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 2, 2007, 4:26 pm
Category: General

Good Things

I have been tagged by Liz . I usually skip participating in such things, but I like this topic. It is always good to remember blessings and give thanks. 1. Jon is working from home - this is so good for our family. The flexibility of his home hours are good for me and... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 31, 2007, 4:52 pm
Category: General, Jonathan

Miscellany

Jonathan loves to create meals and side dishes. On 10/2, he made a vegetable salad that we have recreated several times. Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, onions, with one lemon's worth of juice as a dressing. Simple and delicious. 10/12 - I was in the basement... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 27, 2007, 7:20 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah

Second Day Home

I forgot to post yesterday that I am now officially working from home full-time. Woohoo! Now I just need to catch up on all of the work that I have been postponing until now. (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 19, 2007, 11:05 am
Category: Reviews

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

X-Ray Vision?

So - where can I buy one of these ? (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 16, 2007, 10:33 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

Fairly Mindless Entertainment

This game would be better if it were random, but still kind of fun. I think 17 seconds was my high score on my desktop, and I just it again before posting on my laptop, and I only got to 11 seconds. Perhaps I am just more tired, or else it might be showing the difference between a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 11, 2007, 7:34 pm
Category: Internet

Nifty Video

A bunch of people made a neat video of a lot of kids using augmentative communication devices. My guess is that most of the devices are made by DynaVox , the company where I currently (for a little while longer) work. It is neat to see our technology making a difference in... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 10, 2007, 8:50 am
Category: Reviews

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

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

Organizing for your Brain Type

Here is a brief review of Organizing for your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone . This is a neat book that gives some explanation about why some people have trouble keeping things organized and why some have trouble understanding those others. She puts people in four different groups,... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 22, 2007, 1:20 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