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Daley Visit
Grammy and Auntie E are in Pittsburgh for the weekend, and an early one year birthday for Jonathan. His accomplishments while they were here: Is tall enough to hit his head on the changing table Can go up the stairs without wanting someone behind him Said "hello" to everyone... (More)
Posted by jondaley on November 12, 2004, 9:22 pm
Category: Jonathan
Great Word
Last night, our four-year-old friend William was telling us about the state of their basement playroom. "You don't want to go downstairs, it's a disastrophe!" (More)
Posted by joyful on November 5, 2004, 12:52 pm
Category: General
Spam: In Perspective
A friend of ours was complaining about spam, and Heather agreed, and said she had been getting tons of spam lately. I questioned her on that, since I am in charge of the filters that filter our spam, and I think they do a pretty good job: maybe 15-20 spams got through in the last two years.... (More)
Posted by jondaley on November 4, 2004, 11:19 pm
Category: Programming, Internet
Google Features
I just discovered another nifty feature of the Google search engine. You can paste in UPS and USPS tracking numbers, and will automatically provide you a link to the appropriate site, so you can track your package. For those who are curious, the reason why I happened to see that is I just... (More)
Posted by jondaley on November 4, 2004, 11:12 pm
Category: Internet
Paperwhites and Peppers
Our paperwhites from last year are starting to show little green tips! Our hot pepper plants are starting to flower again. I wonder if there will be any fruit, since the plants are now indoors for the winter. (More)
Posted by joyful on October 27, 2004, 4:21 pm
Category: General
Dermatologist and Philosophical Rambling
I went to a dermatologist this morning to have a mole removed and a small skin lump checked out. My referring doctor said this dermatology practice is the best in Pittsburgh. However, I really am getting more and more disillusioned with medical practice as we know it. As soon as I walked in, I... (More)
Posted by joyful on October 21, 2004, 1:27 pm
Category: General, Reviews
Version Control Comparison
I have been evaluating different version control programs for my company for the last month or two. My current evaluation is that all of them are broken, although I hope to discover a good solution someday soon. Serena's Version Manager (PVCS) I have spent a lot of time with Version... (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 15, 2004, 2:42 pm
Category: Programming, Reviews
Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle is a conference speaker and has a monthly newsletter that I have been subscribed to for a couple years. He wrote an article called, A Boss's Guide to Software Process Improvement that I found myself agreeing with the majority of it. (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 6, 2004, 1:52 pm
Category: Internet, Reviews
Speakeasy
Speakeasy is my DSL provider. Snurgle.org also uses them, so that is how I heard about them. We have been using them for a year or so, and the ten times or so that I had to open a customer support ticket, it has gone quite well, and fairly fast response time (within a couple of days at the... (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 5, 2004, 8:29 am
Category: Internet, Reviews
Citibank
I signed up with Citibank/Mastercard my freshman year in college. I used to sign up for stuff on campus quite often, as they would give me various free things, t-shirts, radios, $100 gift certificates, etc. I also felt somewhat sorry for the vendors, as their income was $1 every time they got... (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 5, 2004, 8:25 am
Category: Reviews
Crack Babies?
Someone off-handedly mentioned on the midwives list that so-called "crack babies" are really mis-named. While crack is certainly not the thing to do, medical research says that it isn't any worse than alcohol or tobacco. There are a number of articles, like this one that can be found from... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 30, 2004, 1:34 am
Category: Internet
The Remnant: Seeking Fellowship in Plain Clothes
Review to come later... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 21, 2004, 6:11 am
Category: Reviews
First Word, for Real!!
Ok, so I wrote the previous post after this happened, but I had been meaning to write it before. Jonathan has always been fascinated with lights. Yesterday, I held him up to the light in our bedroom and gave him the cord and showed him how to pull it so the light would turn on and off. This... (More)
Posted by joyful on September 10, 2004, 5:05 pm
Category: Jonathan
Lead Poisoning
Jonathan had a routine blood test at his 9 month appointment, and they say he has a high lead content in his blood. They are re-running the test today, to make sure that they didn't mess it up the first time. The city will test your water, so we did that this morning. I think it takes a week... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 9, 2004, 8:00 am
Category: General, Jonathan
Adobe Acrobat Slow Loading
Ever notice how it now takes a year for Acrobat Reader to load up? You can speed it up about 20x or so, by moving the plugins you don't use out of the "startup" folder. If you put the files into the "optional" folder, I believe it will still be able to find them when you want to use them, and... (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 19, 2004, 10:22 pm
Category: Programming
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