Bill and I got engaged on June 18th!!! You can keep track of the details of the wedding at http://ourwedding.iwritethecode.com/. We’re eloping though, so don’t be insulted if you don’t get an invite to the ceremony. We’ll be partying in a few cities so everyone can meet, so check out the site every so often for dates!
I just saw this on LiveJournal and thought it was well worthy of being shared:
On Wanting the Best for Your Child
Every parent wants the best for their child. In my experience, however, parents typically believe they know what is best for their child, before they get to know their child.
For someone to help us, they must first know us. They must know what our preferences and desires are, what our beliefs and values are and what our dreams and fears are. Imposing their preferences, their beliefs, their fears, their values on us does not help us — it insults and offends us.
You can not get to know your children by ordering them around, judging, punishing, threatening and interrogating them. In other, words, by imposing yourself on them. When we are imposed upon, sooner or later, we reject this imposition. The more independent we are, according to unique genetic code, the more completely we reject such imposition, and chose instead to find our own way.
To find out who your children are, you must listen to them, lay all the options before them, expose them to the world’s abundant possibilities. Then stand back in awe and wonder, and marvel at the people they become.
My review of HoudahSpot as seen on MacZOT.com
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I’ve never been really happy with Spotlight. Sure it’s a very robust search tool, but the interface just wasn’t all that impressive to me. So when I saw HoudahSpot, I gave it a try. This is totally what Spotlight has been missing! I really like the interface for defining your search criteria. It’s very intuitive AND powerful. Then once you conduct a search, the result panes are great. There’s a browser, which lets you see all the other files in that folder, an Inspector, which gives you a TON of details about the file (for example: images will show you the dimensions, resolution, type, if its RGB, etc) as well as a Preview pane, which obviously, shows you a preview of the file(s) you’re looking at! This is really just the tip of the iceberg too. Check it out!!!
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NOTE: If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot
Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot
Somehow this blog tanked in the last few days. My other blog on this server was just fine luckily. While it was totally unusable, I took the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.3. Everything is running much smoother now, thank goodness.
I’m getting settled in here rather nicely. I’m ashamed to admit though that I’ve been too busy (and sleeping well on my own) to try Pzizz. It’s just a matter of time before I’ll need it though, so I’ll continue my review then!
Tugger is very happy at his new daycare. I have fun because they have webcams set up so I can watch him play!
My plants are all doing very well, you can check out my plant blog at http://flowerpot.iwritethecode.com.
Not much else going on, I really need to do better about writing over here, but now that I’ve finally got this install working well, it’ll be a lot easier. Before I was practically having to sacrifice a kitten just to post here.
