Nerhood Weblog

Yesterday we had our first ultrasound for Baby #2. The main things we learned were (1) that the baby is healthy and growing right on track, and (2) that it’s a girl!!!
We drove a whole hour south to Waldorf, MD in order for the ultrasound to be done using the new 3D/4D technology. Surprisingly, [...]

My folks here so I took today off from work. I had a dentist appointment this morning for a general cleaning. I was a couple months past due because I had bad colds the others times, so they did a fair amount of scraping. As usual I have good teeth, but I need to floss [...]

I got my first blog spam last night. For those not familiar with the term, blog spam is when someone posts spam on my blog using the comment feature. In a way I feel honored that someone thought my bog was worthy enough to spam, but it has caused me to implement some additional features [...]

If you’re ever in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, you can get the best burritos at Burritos En Fuego. They make extra large burritos (and other items) bursting with flavor. Each comes stuffed with black beans, spanish rice, cheese and salsa fresca. You can then add spinach, chicken, ground beef, carne asada (steak), or [...]

My mom has not had good luck with her feet over the last year. First she spilled boiling water on them and got burned pretty seriously. Now she broke her foot over the weekend. So you may be wondering what that has to do with clean bathrooms. My folks are coming to stay with us [...]

As I’ve been looking over my web stats, I noticed that a couple of people have come to my site by searching for Codex Derynianus. Because of this I am starting to think about possibly selling it. It is a really interesting book and it was a labor of love to get it published. I’ve [...]

I’ve been up late (past 12:30 AM) the last three nights. I can’t remember why I was up late on Tuesday, but on Wednesday I was up late because I watched one of my all time favorite movies, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. It is a campy movie from 80s. I haven’t seen it in [...]

Given the recent spat of new worms and viruses, we’ve made some changes to our virus policy at work. I’ve been scanning all emails using a combination of amavisd-new and ClamAV, but I was not taking any action. This was because we already had two levels of virus protection, and both of those offered the [...]

We hit a road block today. We had thought that we could direct all incoming SMTP email in through the exchange server. The problem we found today is that it does not pass HTML formated email correctly into GroupWise. So now I’m going back to the drawing board and trying to figure out virutal email [...]

It looks like Fern added some more pictures and re-arranged things on our Gallery page so go take a look if you are interested.

Well we got hit by the Bagle.B worm today at the office. Our virus software was not updated yet before a user opened an email with an executable and ran it. No matter how often we tell our users not to open attachments, they still do. The upside to all this, is that with our [...]

I know that I should have something deep or thoughtful about experiencing another birthday, but I don’t. We had a good day yesterday which included a nice long walk with Ellie outside. I got some new dress socks and shirts for Fern and Ellie. After Fern and I got Ellie to bed we watched Bandits. [...]

We had a wonderful morning. Ellie woke up and was playing in her room (somehow we had turned her monitor off). But when I went in to get her she was happy. We played in her room for about 15 minutes, then we went into our room and played on the big bed for over [...]

Fern has recently added new pictures to our picture gallery, from the Valentine party at her school and from a field trip to a wildlife center.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m working on updating our network monitoring system. I made significant progress today, I’ve migrated about 60% of the existing configurations over and have also started adding additional items to be monitored as well. I spent most of yesterday building a template in Excel that allows me to easily generate the [...]