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Thanks to the Neon Guild I was just exposed to an exceptional article on computer (and network) security. The article is well-written, easy to read, and an important reminder to anyone that administers a network. Author Marcus Ranum is recognized as the inventor of the proxy firewall, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product, and it’s quite pleasant to come across a technologist who is readable in print. I’m going to add this link to My Wiki as well, as it is doubtless something I’ll need to re-read every few months.

Sorry about another test, but I set up a mailing list for the baby announcements, and I wanted to be sure that posts from my phone will go both to the blog and the mailing list. The mailing list can be found at http://www.chaoslimited.com/mailman/listinfo/birth – Moderator (my) approval is required for subscrption so that I can limit the email to people I know–even if the same info will appear on the blog mere minutes later.

Thanks to this poll plugin for wordpress I’ve created a baby name poll so that you can help us choose a girl’s name. The poll will be up in the “internal links” section of Choicy White boy. Check it out, pick a favorite and let us know. (Don’t worry, I’ll know what it is you voted for and use that one, regardless of what the rest of the poll says 😉 )

(with apologies to dave matthews) Carolyn said I shouldn’t do it. But I did. I got “choicywhiteboy.com”. I don’t think there’s going to be a rush on the domain. It only has meaning for me. But this way blog title and address can sync up — you only have to remember one! For that matter, I took the next logical step and got the AIM ID “choicywhiteboy”. I wonder if I’m going to get as tired of this name as I did of A Life More Ordinary.

OK, it’s lantern light, not candle light, but the idea’s pretty similar. And I’ve been doing a lot of it lately. Maybe a couple of weeks after I penned The bk Life, bk asked me if I’d computed on the back porch again. At the time I had not. But the weather has been too beautiful here to stay in the basement. I’ve got a mouse, and I’m more-or-less used to the screen size.

babycapehart/aae.jpgThis is a simple test of a plugin I just got for wordpress to hook up wordpress to gallery. If it works, there’ll be an ultrasound picture above this. If it doesn’t, then I’ll be editing it until it does work. But not until after dinner. 😉 Well, it appears that I got it working. But I’m still not sure I’m satisfied. I think I want an intermediate size for in-blog pictures.

There are a couple of things I’m tempted to do/start with this blog. The first is to make it my home page. I don’t think there’s any content on the home page that’s not (or couldn’t be) on this page. And why come to a mostly dead home page when the life is going on underneith? I’m also tempted to start a section (or at least a category) called “Other people’s stories.

We reached the end of Farscapetoday. It was a fun show. I liked it and recommend it, but somehow, it never grabbed me the way I expected it to. Maybe my expectations were set too high. Maybe I’ve been jaded by the predictable pattern of hero gets into trouble through no fault of his/her own. Hero gets out of trouble through use of skill/smarts/wit/humanity/whatever, all in the course of an hour.

I meant to post this on the second instead of almost a week later. So, I’m going to back-date this one. Maybe you’ll see it, maybe not. Anyway, Gary Larson’s The Far Side is probably my second-favorite comic strip ever (behind Bill Waterson’sCalvin and Hobbes). During my junior year of college, I was an RA, and already pretty well acknowledged as a gamer much more than a studier. When this particular strip came out (10/15/90 apparently), some people thought it might resonate with me.

Carolyn and I had a perinatal day today. We had a fetal ultrasound with biophysical profile. We had an OB/GYN appointment. We had a quote “non-stress“ test. Carolyn peed in a cup. (OK, to be fair, she has to pee in a cup every time we go to the OB/GYN [at their request, not her whim], but still, it was a long-ish day of poking and prodding.) All of this (well most of this) because she’s “measuring small.