Archive for March, 2008

Political odds and ends

March 31, 2008

On Obama’s Pastor. I watched him shout “God damn America, that’s in the Bible” over and over again on a lot of different shows, but I don’t think I saw anyone explain what he was talking about; the focus of all the coverage was on how severely this would damage Obama. Well, I found [...]

We’re pregnant!

March 20, 2008

Well, that was fast
We’re very happy, even if none of you seem to be the least bit surprised!
This is all still very early so we won’t know if it’s a boy or a girl anytime soon. A very preliminary guess would put the due date around Thanksgiving.
Andrew suggested that if we have [...]

Aiksaurus-GTK on Win32

March 17, 2008

Now I’ve seen it all. Some particularly misguided soul got the GTK version of Aiksaurus working on Cygwin.

More countertops!

March 14, 2008

They finished the counters today — new pictures up on Album 10.

Virtual desktops on windows

March 12, 2008

This VirtuaWin program seems to be a pretty reasonable virtual-desktop manager for Windows.  This should be quite helpful.

Countertops imminent!

March 9, 2008

I’m so excited! The countertops are coming tomorrow. Space to set things down! A fix to the microwave’s precarious wobble! Room for the toaster! If all goes well, I’ll post some pictures of them tomorrow night.
Update.  I put some pictures up on Album 10.  There was a problem with the [...]

Paying extra, or just early?

March 6, 2008

Wells Fargo took a novel approach to handling our mortgage payment.

Caucus: thumbs down

March 5, 2008

I’m ready to officially rule that the Texas democrats shouldn’t be allowed to hold caucuses.

The Primary The Caucus
Early voting at my convenience [...]