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RIP: sun5
For years, the heart and soul of my home network was an old UltraSPARC 5 workstation. I beefed it up with 640MB RAM and a second IDE disk (80gb - at the time, it was significant), and it was the 'go-to' machine for almost any project. In fact, the only thing it didn't do for my household was routing and firewall to the internet ( Read more... ) -
A less than spectacular helpdesk experience
At work, we are instructed, clearly instructed, to use the 'IThelp' email address to ask for any help from our IT department. Having spent plenty of time on the receiving side of these kinds of emails, I understand how useful it is to have a ticket intake system be the recipient of such emails, instead of having your personal inbox fill up with ( Read more... ) -
It's a (proto-) Girl!
She's not yet a very girly girl, since she's still swimming in amniotic fluid for another 4 months whilst building the rest of herself, but the ultrasound today shows that Shayla's baby will be a girl ( Read more... ) -
The Next Generation
As if September wasn't already a busy month, we have news that it's going to get more crowded with another birthday.
Shayla is pregnant, healthy, and due on September 14th. That date's already filled with Marie's birthday, and it’s 3 days after my birthday, and 7 days after our wedding anniversary (25 years coming up -- gulp!).
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Dietary Restrictions
I've done really well avoiding dairy for most of the past few years. Now, I am also showing a sensitivity to potatoes. I figured it out with Marie's help a couple weeks back - I'd just been indulging on some delicious fries at Red Robin, and was simultaneously complaining about this persistent bloating ... a little bit of two and two together, some ( Read more... ) -
Hitting Send Too Soon
Seen on a mailing list (it has something like 350 members, of which about 40 are actively posting to it), when a writer wrote something very, very confusing, and it was pointed out shortly thereafter by another list member:
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Manifesting
Based on looking at life for a while ( Read more... ) -
Yet another phase in life
Shayla's set to graduate from Level II Drug Court on Sept 22nd ( Read more... )