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Sam is One Year Old !
Sam has become one year old today.
Our family loves you and your spiritious enh-enh-ENH! when you want to grab something that is almost out of reach. You take obvious pleasure in our being with you, and I secretly enjoy the fact every morning that when I put you on the table of the day care mother to take of your coat your first priority is to get into my arms again !
Almost walking alone, but for now you still need to hang on to a finger from mom or dad. But soon, it’ll be soon. I hope so, cos my back is feeling it !
Happy Birthday Sam !
Sam is allergic to dustmites and slightly allergic to cow milk, we’ve discovered. Takes after his dad, hopefully not too much.
The only thing missing is a quite night’s sleep, but that’ll come too…
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The internet is for porn !
I never thought I would find something worthwile on YouTube, but
this is excellent if you are even slightly into musicals. And it is worksafe.
Very Funny.
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Akismet Count WordPress pluging
I’ve installed a plugin that shows how many spam that Akismet stops for me. It’s to the right, just below the weather icon.
Considering that it’s been installed not even a week, I think it’s impressive : almost 300 spam in a few days !
Of course, this is only a low-volume blog – not many people read this blog, there are some bloggers out here who receive incredible amounts of spam !
After a *very* long hiatus I’ve started running again – no telling how long I’ll keep this up, but it’s suprising how good you can feel again in the morning after a run, the sense of ‘well’ being when you wake up.
Sort of like your body is happy to be moving again, after all that slacking around. Plus I seem to be getting more energy out of my sheduled runnings… Instead of just running until I’m out of breath, I’m following a schedule I found on the internet.
I’m in week 3 now, following a schedule a bit similar to start2run : the first week run one minute, then walk one minute; do this 8 times. Week 2 you run two minutes, walk one minute, etcetera.
Since I didn’t run a lot last week, I am redoing week 2 again.
No weight loss yet, though. In fact, I am more hungry than usual !
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Spam Away – it won't get you anywhere
These last few days I’ve started receiving some serious spam directed to my blog – every hour or two, some 25 to 30 new spam comments.
They never get actually published on my blog, as I require all comments to be approved by me, but still. It was getting on my nerves, every time I had to wade through 25 new mails from my blog.
Akismet to the rescue. After signing up for free at WordPress.com and getting my api key via a slightly convoluted mail, I activated the akismet plugin, and it immediately set to work, classifying 19 new comments as spam.
No more notifications. No more mails. And it gets deleted after 15 days.
Spam away, you spammer. You’re not going to get anything published on this blog.
UPDATE : I actived Akismet Friday evening – 19 comments were spam. Today, Sunday, I already have 229 spomments ! 4 got to my moderation queue – excellent really !
I was looking for a way to access my Windows XP Home Machine, which I use less and less, from my Mac. As previously reported, a KVM solution made by Belkin looked very good to me.
But while I was browsing some bulletin boards on the topic, somebody mentioned UltraVNC, the remote viewable software solution. I had previously tried WinVNC (now called RealVNCand TightVNC) but their performance over my local netwerk (100 Mbit) was very slow.
UltraVNC, however, is completely different. Very slick and polished, and when you install the mirror video driver (without any problems whatsoever, except a reboot) performance really skyrockets – it’s like you are really sitting in front of your computer, the response speed is so good as to be almost the same as normal !
As long as you use the normal vnc login method, it’s compatible with other VNC clients so I can connect using Chicken of VNC or any other mac VNC client.
Next up to try : playing a game under it (Putt-Putt saves the zoo for the connaisseurs) that Tom adores. If that works, I don’t need to buy the Belkin KVM anymore… Heck, I’ll try and play CounterStrike, though I don’t hold up much hope for that though… 🙂
Update : playing a game like a childrens game is not really bareable, everything flickers. Playing a video actually works, but it is very choppy. So I guess I’ll need a KVM after all.
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Thirty-Eight
That’s how old I am as of today.
Phew. I couldn’t have imagined me at 38 when I was 28, let alone when I was 18. And lookee here.
Father, Husband, Project Manager, Gamer, Reader. All rolled into one big lump.
Can we stop the clock now ? Naaaaaa.
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Night Intervention at 3am
The zombie awakens and blinks his bloodshot eyes blearely. The small God has awoken once more from his restless slumber and is again casting his battle cry, forcing the zombie to come forth and do his bidding.
Shakely the zombie crawls from the deep pit he was lying in. He sways towards the small God to await his orders. After some tossing of his head, he issues his orders, to be obeyed and executed immediately. Our zombie descends haltingly into hell’s kitchen, where the bright fires hurt his eyes.
There he prepares the special potion of forgetfullness that the little God wants. With what he can still control of his face, our zombie mumbles arcane formulas and countings while preparing the formula. Finally it is ready, heated by the invisible fire.
The God drinks, and lapses again into not-being-there.
Zombie can rest again. For now.
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Sam is ill (again)
Sam had us a bit worried, this Saturday night. From Friday onwards Sam has had a low-grade fever, but I thought that he had some more teeth coming through, from which they do sometimes get a fever (I don’t care that the doctors say this is not true, I’ve seen it). This time, though, something more was brewing.
Saturday, he had a fever of 39,8°C that wouldn’t go down, no matter what we tried, using Unifen and Perdolan. So we went to the night-shift doctor (normally they come to visit you, but this one asked us to come, which suites us as it was faster than waiting). Still, I’m glad to have my trusty GPS bluetooth solution to find all those doctors and pharmacies.
The doctor diagnosed him as having a severe throat infection and a small right-ear infection, and immediately prescribed antibiotics that he had to start taking tonight. While I went out on another gps-chase to find a still-open pharmacy, Dolores gave Sam a cold bath (lots of screams from Sam there).
The antibiotics seem to be very effective though – he is getting visibly better, though still very tired.
So are we; feeling better that Sam came through this, but we’re also tired.