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Canadian Thanksgiving 2007
We headed out Friday morning, listening to The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian on the way.  At our first stop, for gas, Jon realized that he hadn't brought his wallet.  One of our stops was at our "usual" rest area, the one with the pedestrian walkways over the... (More)
Posted by joyful on October 12, 2007, 2:47 pm
Category: General
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
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
Always Assume the Best
Mom wrote recently about thinking the best , and Janet just got back in touch with a lost friend whose email was misbehaving.  Now it is my turn to be on the receiving end of a gracious friend thinking the best of me.Our friend Sanda, who grew up in Romania, is now staying in our house... (More)
Posted by joyful on September 19, 2007, 3:15 pm
Category: General
Speaking at IVCF
I was recently asked to speak at IVCF at CMU on the topic of Christian view of success and vocation.  I am supposed to talk for 15 minutes, which will probably go very fast, so I need to be more concise than I usually would be. Our topic for this Large Group is the Christian view of success... (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 14, 2007, 1:43 am
Category: Reviews
Debian Updates vs. Windows Updates
Everyone always says how user-friendly Windows is, and as I sit here waiting for my Windows computer to endlessly update itself, I am struck by how much harder it is to update my Windows laptop than all of my Linux (Debian) servers put together. On Debian: Type "aptitude",... (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 23, 2007, 6:53 am
Category: Reviews
"You must dial a 1 for this call to go through"
I have been having lots of fun (that's the bad kind of fun, not the good kind) configuring Asterisk for my new IT job.  It has been a pretty big pain getting it to work correctly with a couple different VOIP providers as well as the landlines. I had a good day today, figuring both how... (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 21, 2007, 5:25 pm
Category: Programming, Reviews
Snowballs in June
The Carnegie Science Center has a promotion that if you bring a snowball in on the first day of summer, they give you free admission.  Although this was the first year I'd heard of it, everyone else in Pittsburgh knew about it, too. We'd planned on getting there when it opened,... (More)
Posted by joyful on June 22, 2007, 7:38 am
Category: General
Noah's Regular Stuff
He is mostly using only one sign now, rather a "universal yes" - it's kind of like the real "yes" but kind of like a wave, and often done with both arms.  Do you want to get down? Yes.  Do you want milk? Yes.  Do you want more granola? Yes.  Etc. Did... (More)
Posted by joyful on June 14, 2007, 4:50 pm
Category: Noah
Writing, Favorite Color, Familiar
Not to be outdone by his brother , Jonathan has some interesting things for a blog post today, too.    Recently, he's been enjoying cutting out paper shapes that he draws or that I draw for him.  This morning he asked me to draw the picture from the first page of Curious... (More)
Posted by joyful on May 23, 2007, 2:11 pm
Category: Jonathan
Car Accident on Penn Avenue
I am up late working on some code, and all of a sudden there is a really loud noise, and I look out my window and watch a car turn kind of sideways and roll over.  As far as I can tell there wasn't a second car involved, but I don't know what could have happened to make him flip... (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 11, 2007, 12:18 am
Category: General
Chef Jonathan
While cooking our breakfast on Saturday, I saw that Heather had put the potatoes on the counter, meaning that we should eat them soon, and not forget about them in their normal storage place.  I asked Jonathan how we should cook the potatoes for dinner, and he said that we should make... (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 6, 2007, 8:48 pm
Category: Jonathan
It's Worth Finding A Good Pediatric Dentist!
Last month, I took Jonathan for his first dental checkup and cleaning.  He did a great job, asking lots of questions and generally having a good time.  But they did discover two huge fillings.  The regular dentist doesn't do fillings for kids, so she had us make an appointment... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 30, 2007, 11:40 am
Category: General, Jonathan
Climbing, Writing, Quotes
March 20 - Jonathan climbed over our chain link fence all by himself.   March 22 - He was pretending that his cereal was "vitamins" and counting them out to himself, "It's Saturday [eat one]...it's Monday [eat one]...it's Wednesday [eat one]...it's... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 10, 2007, 8:57 pm
Category: Jonathan
Noah: 9 Months
24 pounds, 9 ounces.  30 inches tall. He didn't cry a single whimper for his shot or any of the blood drawing for his hemoglobin and lead tests.  What a brave, tough guy!   He's added water (flicking his ear with his fingers - an unfortunate way to say it, but... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 26, 2007, 4:40 pm
Category: Noah
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