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Well it’s official, and the waiting game is now over. At 12:15:14 P.M. on April the 29th, 2005, Meara Aspen Mock entered this world, and is off to a good start. All 6lbs, 11 oz of her reaching a tall 19inch long (Creapy part: Same birth weight as Lena, and same height [...]

The waiting game continues as we’re almost one week after the last doctor’s appointment for Lena. At the moment we are in the same place we’ve been for quite some time… Lots of little contractions, but nothing to even suggest going to the hospital. We did have a little scare this last [...]

Just a couple short tips for users trying to make use of the MadWifi drivers for their Atheros chipset wifi adapter in Linux. The driver, as everyone may already know, is arranged quite differently than many other kernel modules for wifi adapters. Certain functionality has been separated in into submodules for inclusion or [...]

Well, for those gallery users out there, the next major revision of Gallery, before Gallery 2, has been released as of April 13th, 2005. Version 1.5 promises to add many new user requested features, such as icon for common tasks, improved spam control, improvements for migration to Gallery 2 and much much more! [...]

Our appointment with Lena’s doctor this Wednesday came with a little bit of an exciting suprise. Lena seems to already be 1.5cm dialated (3cm is required to be admitted to the hospital), and is having little mini-contractions every day. Of course who knows how long this will go on, but the doctor was [...]

Unfortunately if you were interested in seeing the PPLUG presentation for this month, it has already come and gone… BUT, as always I posted the presentation slides from my discussion about PHP:
PPLUG April 11th, 2005 : PHP – Expressions and Controls [pdf] [sxi]

Great article for all the non-techies out there who still use Internet Explorer from Eweek.com. The title “CSS IS Internet Explorer’s Weekest Link” is more appropriate as many of us who try to develop any sort of web page / web application are very used to the constant “css hacks” or fiddling we have [...]

As listed on Distrowatch.com, there is a funny little posting of an analogy of Operating Systems to Cars… [more]

As I write to you, I’m sitting… shivering in my household next to the space heater after one of the more interesting weekends in recent memory. Originally planned to be quite busy, only to result in something not quite what we imagined at all. Friday we went through the weekly ritual of Lamaze [...]