Mark Lentczner's JournalA motley collection of thoughtsDecorating the Tree- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Today we decorated the tree. Kyle was amazed and awed by John putting the lights on. He was so happy just to look at all the colors. Kyle and I unpacked the ornaments and he was fascinated with all of them. So fascinated, he didn't want to put them on the tree! Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2003/12/22#tree Lighting the Menorah- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Yesterday evening we went to our friends' house to light the menorah for Chanukah. This was the first time for both Kyle and John. When we lit the candles, Rachael (Kyle's 2 year old friend) was very excited and Kyle kept pointing out the colors of the candles. Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2003/12/24#menorah Setting the Dessert on Fire... Twice- (Found July 8, 2008 ) We had friends over for a ChristmasChanukah dinner: John made a wonderful baked ziti, and we had Roman carrots and salad. After eating too much, it was then time for dessert. I made a farina pie (my great aunt Anna's recipe) and a jam tart for the kids. Our friends brought an apple crisp and ice cream. The apple crisp was just done baking and it was suggested that we put it under the broiler to brown... Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2003/12/25#dessertfire Spirex Release- (Found July 8, 2008 ) John and I spent much of the winter holiday working on his screen saver Spirex. He improved it in a myriad of little ways and I ported it to Mac OS X. If mesmerizing swirly 2D and 3D images are your thing, then this screen saver is for you. Our two year old loves it! Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/01/14#Spirex_Release XML Misconceptions- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I'm involved in a standards project that has a small BNF syntax for representing its data in a simple textual form. Recently, it was suggested that we switch to an XML based format. I could not believe the storm that hit the project's mailing list. Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/01/22#XML_Misconceptions SPF + Postfix Stats Script- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Of interest to system administrators of Postfix based mail sites: If you're protecting your mail from spam using SPF, here's a script for generating statistics. If you're not, check out SPF. Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/01/30#SPFStats Extreme Cooking- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Subject: Extreme cooking I saw this subject in a mailing list and got all excited: Pair cooking Two cooks, one with the whisk and wooden spoon, the other with a tasting finger A set of food requirement stories to manage and guide the cooking And what would refactoring a meal mean Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/02/08#Extreme_Cooking Global Wow- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It is possible to get obscure products from far away places quickly and easily! Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/03/10#Global_Wow Mac OS X Custom Dates Gone Bad...- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Seems John Gruber over at Daring Fireball had a bizarre problem with his Energy Saver Prefs Panel that he traced to a custom date format setting. here is my own similar tale: Read the full entry...http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/05/07#Custom_Date We found the orange- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Kyle and I found a plastic orange from his play food set. It had been missing for some time. We were cleaning up some cardboard boxes and there it was! Kyle excitedly picked up and said "An orange! It is food!". He looked at it, then at me, and said "It's made of pretend."http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/2004/05/11#We_found_the_orange |