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Month: March 2007

Jenna Again

Posted on March 27, 2007November 1, 2021

Nature calls to Jenna frequently in the middle of the night. The other night she got up used the facilities and then went back to bed. If the kids so much as cough Callie wakes up so of course she was awake for this event. After Jenna had gone back to her room she came…

All the Dinosaurs are Killed

Posted on March 27, 2007November 1, 2021

The other night I am trying to get Jenna to go to bed which is not easy to do. I almost get here there when she sits up and says, “Dad I want to tell you something.” I say, “OK”. She says, “all the t-rexs are killed.” Then she says, “a meteor came and killed…

At the Mountain West Ruby Conference

Posted on March 17, 2007November 1, 2021

We are at the Ruby Conference this weekend. The Ruby community is active, talented and friendly. I mean that. Often, because of religious zeal open source communities act very closed to individuals outside their group. The Ruby world isn’t like that. Everyone wants to help. Everyone is friendly. The talks have been good, but like…

Code Review of Ozmozr by Jamis Buck and Marcel Molina

Posted on March 17, 2007November 1, 2021

The review is actually less painful than I would have thought. They are looking at parts of the code and giving specific feedback on code blocks. Here’s a quick summary: ‘and’ and ‘or’ are different than ‘||’ and ‘&&’. The second returns boolean values. The first returns strings. Avoid using ‘and’ and ‘or’. When dealing…

Twins

Posted on March 7, 2007November 1, 2021

For years people have asked us a question that drives my wife crazy, “are they twins?” This is of course the question that people use as a conversation starter. Having kids that look alike is like having the perfect coffee table conversation piece only better – they travel with you. Total strangers will talk to…

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