Archive for September, 2004

One night, four leaks

September 21, 2004

We’ve had a busy night. Sarah’s diaper has leaked four times tonight! Fern and I are getting tired of changing outfits as well as dirty diapers. It comes with the territory, but still… enough is enough!

Major site redesign in the works

September 21, 2004

Things have been sparse around here becuase I’ve been working on a major site redesign. I hope to release the updates in about a week (maybe a little sooner if I get lucky). Thanks to the tremendous WordPress community, I’ve got some neat things in store. For a sneak peak visit BinaryBonsai to get an [...]

Lots of Quotes

September 17, 2004

Lots of fun and interesting Quotes can be found on this page. Look for some of these to appear on the site in the near future.

The Worst Interface Ever

September 17, 2004

Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini, a user interface guru formerly at Apple, describes The Worst Interface Ever. [via MacInTouch]

Back from Qatar

September 15, 2004

Fern’s bother returned this morning (4 AM I think) from his tour of duty in Qatar. We will see him tomorrow night along with Fern’s parents who are driving out. We’re glad that he is back; he will still be on active duty until January, but stationed near here at Dover AFB so we’ll get [...]

High-Tech Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs

September 15, 2004

The Associated Press reports that the High-Tech Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs .
The U.S. information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and this past April [2004], and the market for tech workers remains bleak, according to a new report.
Perhaps more surprising, just over half of those jobs — 206,300 — were lost after [...]

Stupid Mortgage Company

September 13, 2004

AAGGHHH! Last year we refinanced our house. We got a good rate and we were able to remove the mortgage insurance charge. One problem, their screwed up the escrow estimate. On top of that our property taxes went up. So we’ve been putting less into escrow than was needed and more needed to be taken [...]

Bombastic Bowling Birthday Bash

September 13, 2004

One of Ellie’s friends had a 4 year-old bowling birthday party on Saturday. Ellie really had a good time. It was fun to watch and help her bowl. They have rails that they raise so the kids can’t bowl a gutter ball, I don’t remember them having that for me. The adults also got to [...]

Using Windows Terminal Services to Run a Single Application

September 9, 2004

Using Windows Terminal Services to Run a Single Application is a set of Group Policies and Scripts to allow access to only 1 application. Similar (in a very limited sense) to Citrix’s published application feature.

How to give and receive criticism

September 9, 2004

A good article on how to give and receive criticism. via photomatt