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There is now a year worth of DDOE, from birth to first birthday.

There are “new” pictures I just put up from Ethan's birth through the end of June (originally the DDOE started the end of June, so this meant going back and filling in some).

I have created a list of notable days on the DDOE path. Or you might just want to start with birth and work your way forward :-)

• First picture at home (w/ Jerry)
• First good family shot
• Group shot
• Former first DDOE picture (first captioned)
• First major "awww"
• First Caption Contest
• First picture that elicited a he's starting to look like a boy instead of just a baby!
• First tushie shot
• Favorite Ethan & Jerry shot
• First Flight
• Ethan meets more branches of the family tree
• Got Nose?
• Ethan sleeps in a crib
• Scout licking Ethan's head while he's nursing (Ethan, not Scout)
• Ethan meets the UltraSaucer
• The Famous Family shot
• Baby's first overalls
• Just dang cute
• Ethan meets snow
• Ethan's remote control obsession begins
• First Christmas
• Ethan gets baptized
• (baptism 2)
• (baptism 3)
• Ethan first yells at a ref
• Last picture with Jerry
• Ethan plays with his food
• Another "turning into a little boy" shot
• Clear Blue Eyes
• Ethan conquers stair
• Ethan meets the Aiellos
• Baby GQ
• Ethan @ Hooters (I would like to reiterate that it was his mother, not his father, who took him there, without his father's knowledge or consent!)
• Ethan eats Cheerios

Posted by TjL at 02:10 AM | Permalink

(An old man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his potato garden but it was very hard work as the ground was hard. His only son, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.)

Dear Son

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me.

Love Dad

(A few days later he received a letter from his son.)

Dear Dad,

For heaven's sake, dad, don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the BODIES.

Love, Your Son

(At 4am the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologised to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.)

Dear Dad,

Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.

Love, Your Son.

Posted by TjL at 04:14 PM | Permalink

Someone sent me this image and asked Can you see it?

I could, but I also thought it was so cool that I wanted to pass it along.

Posted by TjL at 11:54 PM | Permalink

Here is another reason why I will never use Passport for any valuable information, and another reason why you ought to fight Microsoft's attempts to further integrate it into Windows.

Privacy vs. Convenience: It's Up to You

Posted by TjL at 07:46 PM | Permalink

Two sets of pictures of the new house and 3 short videos are available at http://tntluoma.com/newhouse/

Posted by TjL at 08:41 PM | Permalink

One house (3 bedroom/2 bath, corner lot, zip: 32605): $112,000

One car (1997 Saturn SL, 5 speed): $4,200

One Palm Pilot IIIxe with 1) Two Serial Port HotSync Cradles, 2) one USB HotSync (Serial to USB Adaptor), 3) padded case with belt clip, and 4) Full Fold-Out Keyboard: $200

Posted by TjL at 09:01 PM | Permalink

The bad news is that I lost my cell phone somewhere between the Atlanta and Gainesville airports. It was in the shoulder strap of my Targus Laptop Backpack (one of the better purchases that I've made, by the way, especially with a Dell Inspiron 7500 which weighs nearly 9 pounds) which I checked plane-side in order to not have to squish it into the overhead bin.

The good news is that I never really liked that phone (Nokia 3360) in the first place, except for the size.

The even better news is that I replaced it with a Treo 300, which is a Palm Pilot and a cell phone all in one, and works with ACT! which I also use.

Sprint has a deal for unlimited wireless web, which of course I could not resist trying out.

It's pretty cool to be able to send and receive email on the unit itself, plus it has a built in keyboard, so no more trying to deal with Graffiti (yuck).

It does, however, make you hate spam all the more when you are downloading it over a slow connection.

It also makes you realize how poorly most websites do on a small device.

So far I have tried "Blazer" (the web browser that came with it) as well as Eudora.

Anyway, I'm starting Tim's Wireless Page for good resources that I find for wireless users

Posted by TjL at 08:58 PM | Permalink

Opera 7.11 was briefly on the FTP servers, although it was not officially released. Some folks found it and used it before it was pulled.

Here is one account of why you should wait until new releases are officially announced before you try them: Henk's '7.11 Pulled' [from opera.general].

Posted by TjL at 10:34 AM | Permalink

I'm not much of a history buff... mostly I've never been good with dates and names... but every now and again I find something really interesting and say to myself "I wish I knew more history because there's some really cool stuff"...

For example, I never knew this:

In the early 1900s, most mayonnaise (or mayo), came from Europe.

In fact, when the Titanic left Europe, it was caring several hundred tons of mayo!

The people in Mexico were relying on the "fact" that the mayo was coming.

But, when the Titanic sank, they were very sad.

In fact, they were so sad that they made a holiday to remember the very sad occasion.

The named it, Cinco de Mayo.


{{ That's not quite as bad as the joke someone told me yesterday....

Him: "Happy Star Wars day"
Me: "huh?"
Him: May the Fourth be with you

UGH}}

Posted by TjL at 11:06 AM | Permalink

Opera is working with IBM on a multimodal browser (Voice and Visual).

The voice part includes both voice recognition and text-to-speech. IBM has further information on their site

The language is XHTML+Voice which you can read more about in IBM's XHTML+Voice Profile 1.1

Posted by TjL at 08:29 AM | Permalink