Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

Julie

Even more pictures of Julie

I hadn't gotten around to cleaning off the camera when I posted the last big mess of pictures. I pulled them off and uploaded them to the Julie gallery too. I have some favorites in there that I thought I would highlight here:

Julie

Julie's new word

Julie has started saying "dadada" which of course sounds exactly like Daddy when you are a goofy parent who thinks that their kid is a genius. I know it isn't her saying "Daddy", but it is still pretty cool to hear her say it and…

JournalFriendsJulie

Picture Dump

I have been really lax in uploading various pictures that I have from different events. I finally got around to getting them uploaded thanks to the connection at work. It takes about 3 minutes a picture at home, but about 10 seconds at work. There…

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Parental worries

Well, I have been feeling alittle worrysome lately. I watched a house the other night that was about a father that was caring for his mentally challenged son. the son had been brain damaged following a bus accident and the father was now going to…

JournalJunk

Whisper during the Republican debate tonight

Did anyone else hear someone prompt Romney during the last segment? He was being ask if he would do for Social Security what Ronald Regan did in the 80's. You can clearly hear someone off camera whisper "Raise Taxes" and then after that Romney says,…

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What our soldiers are missing

I occationally receive messages from a former high school friend of mine that is currently serving in IRAQ. This last message, summing up 2007, really touched my heart. He said that of the 365 days of 2007, only 48 of them was spent with his…

JournalJulie

6 month Julie pictures

We went to have 6 month pictures taken at wes davis photography the wed before christmas. If you would like to see them, go to his website Wes Davis Photo and type in kitten for the password. If you do view them, please post about…

Julie

Just some video of Julie

I dug up the video camera yesterday and took some video of Julie. It isn't really obvious in the video, but she was trying to stand up by herself and was doing it really good before we started taking the video. Of course. The second…

GeekAsterisk/Trixbox

99.9% Uptime?

We have been moving parts of the district over to a central VoIP phone switch located in our office at the Board of Education. It does put a importance on our servers staying up since if they are down the phones out at the buildings…