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I am absolutely amazed by the compassion and dedication my wife has.
For the last 4 months (not to mention the 41 weeks before that) my beautiful wife has spent every single day caring for our baby girl. You probably don't fully understand with that means without some qualifications, so let me elaborate.
Our daughter is breast […]

So I bought a laptop.
My employer — heretofore known as the Great White Devil (as coined by Joel Watson of HijinksEnsue) or GWD for short — was giving me some after my request for a RAM upgrade to the impossibly small 512kb that I have now due to the new Encrypted status of my laptop […]

A few weeks ago I laid out a plan to help me better vary the kind of photograph I was putting out there. It certainly wasn't simple or easy, but I felt like I could do it.
Last week doesn't count thanks to the fact that I was out of town and without the technical means […]

I'm not misinformed enough to proclaim, "nothing changed, it just broke all by itself". But, I don't have any other explanation. My Wireless Card has suddenly stopped working in Linux.
I'm almost certain I didn't have a kernel upgrade or software install in between the last time it worked and now because I remember upgrading all […]

I've been using Skype off and on here and there, but, thanks to it's Linux support, I've decided to make it my primary vehicle for Audio/Video Chatting, especially when away from home.
Skype Me: jimreverend

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I know I say something similar about once a month, but, I cannot believe Celeste is going to be 4 months old next week. I'm sure that I was standing in that hospital nursery just yesterday afternoon thinkings, "There she is! That beautiful, kicking, crying baby is 100% yours to love and care for […]

By Friday our weekend plans are usually booked solid, and this weekend is no exception.
Here are our plans. You're welcome to join us for almost all of it, so get in touch with me if you're interested. We're always looking for tag-alongs and reasons to deviate from our schedule. Yeah, we're like that.
Friday:
Evening: Going away […]

I'm not sure if this is specific to the Ubuntu Live based installs, or if this would apply to any Ubuntu installation. However, attempting to install sun-java6-jre (or sun-java5-jre) has left me with a continuous string of errors until I did this…
ln -s / /cow
It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this […]

Despite the ever decreasing amounts of free time I have these days (it was bad even before the baby) I feel compelled to force myself to continue to create and explore. I think a forced schedule is the best way to accomplish this. While it doesn't produce outstanding results every day, forcing myself to produce […]

I've been up for a little less than 2 hours now — somewhere between 4 and 5am is a typical wake up time for me. I have a 7am meeting that I'm taking from home. I have to leave no later than 9:30am to catch my flight to Hershey, PA. I get back around midnight […]