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Bad Behavior has blocked 840 access attempts in the last 7 days.

I won't make this too detailed since Jon especially doesn't like this kind of stuff posted for everyone to read (and well, would you want your business customers - or worse, potential customers - reading about what your children are doing on the toilet?) But I just wanted it on the... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 10, 2008, 9:25 am
Category: Noah

Jonathan Quotes

4/10 - "That makes us laugh to the tip of our lungs!" 4/21 - Kind of like a spoonerism: "Daddy, do you want a bug wrap?" He meant "back rub." We all got a laugh out of that one. 4/25 - He woke up in a happy mood this morning, before the rest of us. He took off his diaper,... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 25, 2008, 7:44 pm
Category: Jonathan

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

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

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

One For All Universal Remote

One of my customers gave me an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, and so I bought a geeky toy for myself ( One for All URC 8910 Universal Remote Control ), and a book for Heather and I ( Teach Them Diligently: How To Use The Scriptures In Child Trainin g). I haven't opened the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 27, 2008, 12:05 am
Category: Reviews

Random Stuff

Just when I thought I was a geek, the bar is raised... I forgot to post this a while ago: Tim Hawkins and the "homeschool family". Prairie Home Sausage is kind of funny - and has a picture of a really neat merry-go-round. Lastly, being... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 7, 2008, 2:50 pm
Category: General

Christmas Present from Verizon

For some reason, Verizon thought it would be a good idea to reconfigure their network early morning Christmas Eve (or late the night before, I am not sure which). Unfortunately, they transferred me to a broken gateway, which has 3 minutes outages every fifteen minutes or so.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 26, 2007, 11:47 am
Category: Internet

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

Do Not Call Lists

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately. I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for our state and for the country. We are supposed to get $100 for each violation (where the caller pays $1000). But, I haven't ever gotten any money.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 10, 2007, 4:20 pm
Category: Reviews

I'm Sorry, Your Product is Obsolete

This is what the HP technical support person said to me when I called about our printer. Our faithful HP LaserJet 6L, which was manufactured 10.5 years ago, and given to us 6(7?) years ago. It printed Mom's boarding pass just fine, and then one day later, all three indicator lights... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 3, 2007, 3:50 pm
Category: General

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