I’m a bit torn at work. I’ve long described our shop as a JSF, Spring, and Hibernate shop, a designation with which I am perfectly happy. Last week, however, after pointing my boss to a blog entry by a someone I “know” (I quote that, because he’s someone I talk to on IRC ;), I …
Anybody that follows abortion laws even loosely will know by now that South Dakota has passed into a law a bill that will outlaw all abortions except those done to save the life of the mother. Christianity Today has a pretty good article describing many groups’ disappointment with the bill. Even President Bush differs with …
Tonight, we were getting Andrew ready for bed. Angela was working with Andrew who was more interested in doing something other than getting ready for bed. Knowing that it is effective to give a young child a choice between two or three options, she asked him, “Do you want Mother to help you, or do …
Today, I went to the orthodontist to have more stuff put in my mouth. He bonded my “upper 3 to 3” which means he put brackets on my upper teeth from canine to canine. He then took a “zip strip” and wound it in a figure eight pattern around/between the brackets on my front teeth. …
Here is a pretty sick story about a man who “became” a woman. He paid some doctor to remove certain items and …um… rewire some things (I’m guessing here. I really don’t care to know the nitty gritty details). He then filed some paperwork with the government to legally change his gender from male to …
Tonight, Angela and I took Andrew to his first movie in a theater. Unless I’m mistaken, it was also the first movie we’ve let him sit and watch start to finish uninterrupted (though Finding Nemo may have taken that honor). At any rate, it was a pretty big deal. We were a bit hesitant, as …
There’s a good chance that anyone who happens to read this knows that I’m getting braces. If not, let me get you caught up. My teeth have always been really crowded and crooked, and, over time, I’d gotten used to it. I just accepted it and moved on happily with life. Last fall, my dentist …
At work, I’m trying to learn how to use Acegi Security, a security framework for Java web applications. I was using this tutorial, which was written for version 0.8.3, whereas I had installed 1.0.0RC2. Here’s the process I went through to update the code to use the newest version of Acegi Security: start container watch …
Right now, we’re trying to potty train Andrew. I had him on the toilet and Angela went off to get his jammies. While she was gone, I cupped my hand at the side of my mouth, got all excited and whispered, “Can you go to the bathroom before Mother gets back?” Andrew cups his at …
Well, I think I have everything copied over from my old new blog to my new new blog, and hopefully I won’t have to do all of that again. I didn’t copy everything, as, honestly, some of that stuff is either no longer really relevant, or just doesn’t interest me much anymore (blogs concering the …