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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

This One's For Asher

It makes me think of Asher every time. 2009-01-28_05_faith_kick_leg_to_bounce.avi (More)

Posted by joyful on February 8, 2009, 6:45 pm
Category: Faith

$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: 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: Germany and France (07 Jan 2009)

We intended to get up early and go back to Richard's to finish vacuuming and do a wash (Wednesday - Mittwoch - being his assigned wash day.) However, we spent a while eating breakfast with our hosts. It turned out that Richard had come home late the night before so he had started a wash first... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 9:09 am
Category: General

Switzerland: Around Basel (06 Jan 2009)

The morning got off to a slow start, but we did more packing and I believe Mom and Dad came to Richard's so we could all go together to the heart of Basel. We were originally going to see some sights and then meet Janet and Stephan for lunch, but we ended up just getting there in time for... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 8:58 am
Category: General

Switzerland: Meetings and Rehearsals (01-02 Jan 2009)

Waking up at the above mentioned 2pm left us just enough time to get ready to go to the Renaissance Dance Rehearsal at 3:00. Janet wanted us to dance to medieval music at the wedding reception and thought it would be a good idea for us to practice ahead of time. About 20 of us were there,... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 14, 2009, 1:20 pm
Category: General

Eggs Presnor

This is the traditional Christmas breakfast in the Daley family. It is too good to only have once a year, and I often make it for potluck brunches. No one knows where the "Presnor" part comes from. The original recipe from Jon's mom has plain monterey jack cheese, but the pepper jack gives... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 22, 2008, 5:15 pm
Category: General

Helper Shell Scripts for Worklog

As I wrote earlier , I use worklog to keep track of my time. I use some other scripts to help manage worklog's output, and now that I made one of the scripts work even nicer today, I figured I should post them. I use get-time to see where I spent time on a particular day. It... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 8, 2008, 3:25 pm
Category: Programming

Trendfo.com

I have been working on an interesting project for a customer of mine - and as is with lots of his projects, end up seeing lots of internet headlines while working on the projects. This particular project involves tracking what things people are talking about and searching for. One source... (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 17, 2008, 11:39 pm
Category: Reviews

Software Development

I have been quite behind in my magazine reading, and this morning I caught up to August (2008 - at some points, it has been necessary to specify the year when saying how far behind I am). There is an interesting article in Dr. Dobbs, by Scott Ambler , regarding methods of estimating... (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 14, 2008, 9:46 am
Category: Programming, Reviews

Life With Three

...is going great, but has its challenges. I'm probably not the only one to brush someone's teeth with one hand while bouncing a crying baby with the other. But bedtime is pretty much the only time of high demand from all at once. Jonathan is great about waiting and about helping Faith... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 4, 2008, 6:29 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Carroll Street is Officially For Rent

We signed up for a new phone number for dealing with rental stuff, and bought the numbers to go on the sign today. Three hours later, we got our first call. Crazy. I haven't gotten around to getting it on Craig's List yet or anything. The guy is deciding between a house and a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 30, 2008, 5:57 pm
Category: General, Reviews