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Between work and Claire, life has been too busy to blog lately. In the office, it’s crunch time again, which means weird hours and sometimes some weekend heroics; at home, we’ve had some rough going with the whole getting-Claire-to-sleep thing.
So we’re giving up on the “let the baby figure out when to be asleep [...]

Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor

Mood: amused

Monday was 28 days, tonight is 30 days; according to the calendar, that makes Claire a full calendar month old. My inner optimist tells me that every day where the three of us are all still here together is a victory, but my inner everyone else persistently beats the crud out of that optimist [...]

For those of you who haven’t heard, this is why I haven’t posted much in the last month.
Now that the visitors are all gone, and it’s just the 5 of us, I now am attempting to find a routine. Or really, find out if a routine is even possible.
It’s been an interesting month and [...]

So this link got tossed around our developer chat at work the other day, mostly to make fun of the idea and put down its author, but I find myself intrigued to the point that I can’t stop thinking about it. Why not have a set of personal unit tests?
Let’s be blunt; I pretty [...]

While I’m waiting for someone to fall asleep in the swing, I’m surfing away to get the latest trashy TV gossip since I rarely get to watch tv right now.
The season 4 project runway cast has been officially announced. For those of you who heard last season a classmate of mine from [...]

I missed the September ClePy meeting because I was too busy helping my wife fork a child process (there seems to be an awful lot of that going around the Python community lately, based on what I’ve seen on the Planet feeds–something in the water, perhaps?). But I hear that Brian Beck put together [...]

Huzzah! Our little munchkin is so eager for milk that she doesn’t care where she gets it. She’ll even accept a bottle from her dad! Yep, our first experiment with me feeding Claire from a bottle went smashingly, my little angel gulping away happily in my arms, with nary a complaint–except a [...]