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Cygwin is one of the packages that seems to often break when I upgrade it. In their defense, it is a large collection of packages, so presumably hard to get everything right in all circumstances. I run Debian (testing) on my Linux systems, and I rarely have any issues during... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 23, 2009, 11:09 am
Category: Reviews

Recovery Rebate Calculator (AKA, Will the IRS Give Me Any More Money?)

The IRS hasn't published their calculator yet, and I have been reading about lots of people trying to figure out what to do with line 70 on their 1040 (ie. the famous RRC that is causing probably more time wasted than was worth the money that was sent out last year. So, I wrote a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 17, 2009, 1:41 pm
Category: Programming

Happy Birthday to Me

I figured I'd be getting some birthday money from someone, so I went ahead and spent it last week, by buying a handful of CDs from Sovereign Grace , which happens to be having a fairly big sale. It will go for the rest of February, so you should probably check it out. It seems to be... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 12, 2009, 12:10 am
Category: Jonathan, Reviews

House Work on Denny Road

I also have been doing some work on our new house. This morning we installed new downspouts on the west side of the house - (we previously had done some work on the east side). They aren't the prettiest pipes in the world, but the take the water from the two corners and pipe it over down... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:47 pm
Category: Reviews

House Work on Carroll Street

Heather and I spent several days over the last week at our old house, cleaning and fixing various things that our previous tenants broke. It is pretty annoying to have people totally not care about your property, and live in pretty disgusting conditions, presumably to get back at me for... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:38 pm
Category: Reviews

Fakeable Caller ID

We've gotten two calls in the last couple days from people claiming that we called them, and quite irate about it. What they didn't realize is that you can't really trust the caller-id values displayed on your phone - they are trivially forgeable by anyone, and I think relatively hard to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:32 pm
Category: Reviews

Stuff

1/23 - Faith's matching lower tooth came in. It looks like she's teething again, maybe some top teeth on their way. She, like Noah my other early teether, is interested in solid foods already. Jonathan bought her (with his own money) some little cereal pieces, the kind that dissolve... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 7, 2009, 8:51 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Quotes from Jonathan

While looking at a dollar coin, Jonathan said, "I think it has a picture of Obama or something", (really, it's Andrew Jackson). "Switzerland laughs and American laughs are the same; only the language is different. I made my silly face at people in Switzerland, and they laughed like a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 31, 2009, 1:43 pm
Category: Jonathan

$0.01 Credit Card Charge and Cancelling a Card Due to "Low Use"

Mydad had mentioned a news article story a month ago about some company charging a whole bunch of people $.01 each on their credit cards; presumably with the thought that no one would complain about a $.01 charge, and since they charged a million people or something, they made a bunch of... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 26, 2009, 3:55 pm
Category: Reviews

Switzerland: Back to the USA (12 Jan 2009)

Very early in the morning, we got up, had breakfast and said goodbye to Sarah (all the other Dutlers said goodbye the night before.) Janet and Stephan came to pick us up and we crammed all ourselves and stuff into the mini-minivan. They took us to the Basel airport where we spent quite... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 18, 2009, 10:22 am
Category: Reviews

Health Insurance Issues for the Self-Employed

I thought I had written about this before, but I can't find it, so maybe we just talked about it over email. We purchased health insurance through Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield when I first started working for myself. It was the same plan as we had when workingfor Dynavox, though... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 18, 2009, 9:35 am
Category: Reviews

Switzerland: The Last Day (11 Jan 2009)

We missed our intended tram for the morning, but the next one got us to church just barely in time. In fact, we met the Dutlers coming up the sidewalk. It was nice to visit Janet's church. This is, in fact, where she met Stephan. Jon told Jonathan he could go to Sunday School if he... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 18, 2009, 8:43 am
Category: General

Switzerland: Bern (10 Jan 2009)

In the morning we once again took an early tram to the train station. This time we boarded the train by ourselves and rode to Bern. As soon as we got off, we were greeted by Reto, “You must be the Daleys!” Reto is a programmer that Jon met through the LifeType project. He... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 5:57 pm
Category: General

Switzerland: Zurich (09 Jan 2009)

Once again we took an early tram to thetrain station, meeting Janet and Stephan there. Then we rode to Zurich and the first thing we did was walk to the historical museum. We saw ancient gold, medieval and more modern weapons, and costumes, elaborately panelled rooms, banners and medals from... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 3:58 pm
Category: General

Switzerland: Day of Rest and Laundry (08 Jan 2009)

I was in need of a break from sightseeing and catching trams and we were out of clean clothes. Jon started a wash as soon as we got up. I asked him about his eye and he said it felt fine. Praise God! We hung around, took naps, read, and checked on laundry. The washer takes two... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 10:18 am
Category: General