B-Day

I'm starting to think birthdays aren't necessarily a good thing anymore.

Office Pictures

Finally getting most of the home office situated. Only thing left are some pictures or something on the walls.

	The chair is the newest addition. Now Laura can read while I work (i.e. play) and/or my son can sit over there instead of crawling on me.
	The flat panel is definitely nice but I still want 2. I like the floating shelves and desk we got from IKEA.
	We took the closet doors off and put in Closet Maid shelves. I used to have all my electronic stuff stashed away in paper boxes. It's nice to now have them in clear boxes. I also like the orange wall.

The terror of being offline for a day

A few days ago I mentioned how I think I'm addicted to the being connected to the internet. I know I'm not alone but it's funny to see someone write about it.

Testing

I see Blogger now has a way to upload pictures from the Blogger interface - just checking it out.  I'm also checking out the timer on my new camera.  Of which I got $100 off by using AntiRebate.com

A little too late

Your image really takes a hit when you try and play catch up.  First Microsoft gets pounded by Google's search capabilities.  Then Google turns Microsoft's Hotmail into a laughing stock when they release GMail.  And now Mozilla's Firefox, in my opinion, destroys IE in every way.  In all areas Microsoft has tried to come back and add the extra features that they lack.  The latest one is adding the ability to aggregate rss feeds in IE.  Unless Microsoft starts getting seriously innovative then...well...it's a little too late.

Colors

My son knows his colors.  He can organize things into piles of the same color but trying to get him to say the appropriate color is like pulling teeth.

Me: Look, this is a blue truck.  What color is the truck?

Boy: yellow

Me: No, blue.

Boy: blue.

Me: What color is the truck?

Boy: brown

Me: No, the truck is blue.

Boy: blue

Me: What color is the truck?

Boy: yellow

....and on and on and on....

I'm an addict

I wonder what it would be like to go 24 hours without touching a computer; or if we want to be realistic - 1 hour.  Do I really need to be chained to this thing all the time?  Do I have that much to do?  Probably not.  I have a lot to do but most of the time I'm checking my e-mail accounts, the news (tech, local, global), my aggregated rss feeds, the mortgage rates, possible job opportunities, etc.  So, am I a web information junkie or a web developer keeping a finger on the pulse of the information technology industry?

Gmail + Aliases

A little known feature of Gmail allows the user to use an alias with their account.  I've always filtered things by the FROM email account but doing it this way will make it much easier to organize.  Link.

Added Blog Stats

I put some blog stats on this page.  This entry is just so I remember when I did it.  Want your own?  Go here.

So it begins

I should be going to bed around 10 but I always decide to just watch a "little" TV.  That usually ends up being a couple of hours watching something like The Blind Swordsman or playing poker through PokerRoom.com (of which I'm 17,000 out of 19,000 players - so I should give that up).  So after staying up till midnight on Saturday I begin Sunday morning at 6:30 with my wife screaming.  It's one thing to wake up quietly with the sound of rain and something entirely different to wake to a scream.  It turns out that the Boy has decided to pee in the potty.

Now, the rules of the potty training game begin with showering the child with loads of praise when he is successful - hence the earlier scream of which I now realize wasn't a bad, I'm in pain, scream but a good one.  Since Laura has done her part, I'm now expected to do mine and I drag myself up, go into the bathroom, say good job, and go back to bed.

So begins the ritual of constantly placing the child on the potty, asking if he has to go, and the constant praise for successes (which requires the parent to be "upbeat" - which is not my area of expertise).  This should be interesting.

Another reason why Google is cool

How many large, world wide, tech companies that you know of have open source projects?  Google has a bunch of projects on SourceForge that look very interesting.  code.google.com