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  • What’s it like working for yourself?

    I’ve spent 2 solid hours on the phone today.

  • What’s marriage about?

    Marriage is just plain fun! I fearlove my wife! She makes me laugh.

  • Can’t see the code for all the debugging

    So I’m pulling my hair out and pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my code isn’t working. In the process I resolve a fairly significant logic flaw (which is a good thing) but still it doesn’t seem to work and nothing is changing in the results when I finally remember that I put maxrows="10" on the <cfoutput> for troubleshooting.

    Long and short that means I couldn’t figure out why anything past the 10th record was not updating and the reason was because I told the code not to update anything past the 10th record.

    Thank you for joining me for that moment of Geek Zen.

  • Now I am an IT manager!

    Sometimes I don’t think. When I setup our home network, I did what most people probably do and set up DHCP which means the router dynamically gives a computer connecting to our network an IP address. This is nice that if someone with a laptop visits or I am working on someone’s computer that all we do is plug it into the network and the machine works on the Internet. Well, for a network of 7 computers that never move, DHCP is a bit of overkill.

    Sometimes I like to look at the router logs and see what the kids are looking at on the Internet. Conceptually, their IP addresses could change and I never really know whose traffic I am observing. DHCP simply makes that difficult.

    Sometimes I want to yank the Internet from one or more children. With DHCP the easiest thing to do was to walk to the router and pull the cable.

    That has all changed! I wised up and set static IP addresses for all the machines. The ending ip number simply corresponds to the year of birth for the primary user of the computer. Now the logs make sense. Now in a couple of seconds I can deny the appropriate computer access to the Internet. Now I’m thinking.

  • August Challenge – Early Bird

    I am happy that I was able to pull myself from bed at 4am. The silence is soothing. The crackling of a tree branch breaking and falling to the ground is pronounced in a way that would be lessened or missed during the day.

    Can you meet The August Challenge?

  • August Challenge – All in the numbers

    I am happy today is 8/7/6. I just find that amusing.

    I am happy my children are caught up on their shots. Evan 6 shots. Amy 4 shots. Sarah 1 shot. They aren’t so happy about that. Sarah took it worst; her pain was all in the anticipation.

    Can you meet The August Challenge?

  • Age of Innocence

    They say children see 9 dolphins in this picture. What do you see?

    Incase anyone missed the reference, I’ll post it below. Click more to see the details.

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  • Parents reviewing video games

    KidGamers is fresh on the scene to give parents an opportunity to understand the video games their children want to play.

    KidGamers.org is a video game review site for parents and by parents. While there are plenty of video game sites out there, few of them cater to parents who wish to help their kids find fun and challenging video games.

    As we all know, the ESRB’s rating system is a blunt instrument. It tells you the basics of what is “bad” about a game, but nothing about what is good for a game from a child’s perspective.

    Their reviews, with attention on pre-teen and younger, will focus on skills needed to play the game, accuracy of the ESRB rating, what did the children think, and did the parents enjoy the game.

  • Big holes!

    So I was reading about the biggest hole in Russia

    The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.
    …
    The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now.

    and learned about Bingham Canyon Copper mine via the post comments. The facts about the mine are fascinating. And the pictures are impressive. I wonder if this is what the West Virginia mountains will look like in 100 years. (see also)

  • Good time to be alive for numbers junkies

    Woohoo! If you use date formatting of MM/DD/YY today is 8 7 6! Ugh! I should have posted this at 5:43.21 a.m.

  • Google Map Flight Simulator

    Use your arrow keys to control the plane on this fun flight simulator based on Google Maps.

    Thanks to Single-Dads for the link!

  • Oh the dreams we dream

    Last night I dreamed that Doug Heffernan and I were trying to break an old style iMac by throwing it up in the air and letting it land on the floor. Carrie gave us the whole smug "you’re going to regret this" attitude and toward the end Doug and I look at the concrete porch then at each other and rush off to actually break the screen. The location was an altered version of the show’s house set and the style of the dream including the lighting was just like the show.

    In other dreams, I was helping Miss Julie Patchoulie out around her house and we were talking about the branches I had cleared in a previous dream and how they were still around because I had put them down across the property line and despire the large spanse of grass the oriental neighbor was now irrated with Julie. We skipped the sticks and went to an old shed to tear out a wall. Upon beginning to pull off the duct tape that held the concrete block up, numerous spiders with bizarre markings rushed out.

    The fun beginning dream of the evening involved a guy who had built a long wooden pier into the side of a cliff high above the ocean. At the end of the several miles of pier was a bar. He began his day by standing on the egde of the pier and jumping high in the air doing a forward flip and landing back on the very edge of the pier. Then he would repeat with a backflip. A reporter was interviewing him as he did his morning flips. At the top of the cliff was a house. From the house, you could go through some woods to the street but once in the street it was evident that the woods was really a small grove of trees and a path led around the outside of the trees from the street to the house. The house was Julie’s and we started her dream.

  • Evan joins the August Challenge

    Ever since Barry inspired me on Fresh Food, Fresh Blog, I have wanted a reason to use the 1 pixel out audio plugin.

    [audio:http://blog.siliconholler.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/evanlaughs.mp3]
  • August Challenge – Tommy’s Horse Show

    Eek! I blew the August Challenge already! Was I not happy on Friday or Saturday?

    Today I am happy that Tommy did so well at the horse show.

    Can you meet The August Challenge?

    Yesterday I was happy to be watching Tommy ride solo at the horse show. Friday I was happy that I was able to spend time with my family.