Cognitive Advancements

I hate sounding like the stereotypical dopey parent, oohing and aahing at their child’s every insipid developmental achievement.
But I gotta say, this was pretty cool
This morning, like every morning, we came downstairs to Ani’s nursery soon after waking. And this morning, like most mornings, we were greeted with the joyful sight of our [...]

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Only good things come from the salmon

My best friend in the whole wide world (he currently shares this title with one other, and there’s not much either of them can do about it) just sheepishly admitted to me he “has his own blog”:http://www.fromthesalmon.com. Coincidentally, he started it on the same day as mine, but strangely enough, he saw fit to actually [...]

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Giving Maven the boot

There are few technology decisions I’ve made during my current tenure at Jobster that I regret as much as using Maven for our build system.
We started out with a pretty simple but workable ant script. However, I came across Maven and was intrigued by its promises: standard targets derived from a project descriptor and sparse [...]

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Mommy and Ani

Mommy and Ani

Originally uploaded by shaug.

Cheryl’s mom came to visit this past week, and brought her new christmas camera with her. The camera was in hand more often than it wasn’t. She got some great shots, and I’ve used her prodigious output as an excuse [...]

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posting by email

I’ve learned the hard way that if I’m going to post to my blog over
email using Outlook, I have to be in plain-text mode. The resulting post
looks like crap otherwise.
But, other than that, I think I have everything set up for this to work
automagically. This will hopefully make long bus rides with my
blackberry more rewarding…

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Fantastico!

Incredible. I just upgraded to WordPress 1.5 with the click of a link.
My hosting company (HostMatters) makes available through my site’s control panel a tool called Fantastico!. Googling around, it seems like this is a common feature offered by many web host services; if yours doesn’t provide it, I highly recommend finding one that does.
For [...]

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