GlennLogTurning technology from mumbo-jumbo into rich tasty gumboNight 3 of the Fleishman and Fleishman Merger- June 16, 2008 So...Lynn and I decided Rex was old enough to not freaking sleep in our room any more at night. Don't get us wrong: He needed to be nearer to us during his months of ear infections. But we'd hit a stride with him. He was getting himself well back to sleep on the rare occasions that he was waking up. Ear infections seem to be past with ear tubes and better weather. He's sleeping til about 6.15 am, which is late morning in babyworld. We'd tried to merge the boys in Ben's room (now redubbed Ben..http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/008360.html Elihu Supersizes- June 8, 2008 My alma mater, Yale, tired of turning away qualified applicants, is boosting storage space, er, dormitories, um, residential colleges! They're building 2 more for a total of 14. Yale's colleges, each of which houses about 400 to 500 students, date back mostly to the 1930s, with the last two built in the 1960s. Old Campus houses about 80% of freshmen, in historic buildings, renovated every once in a while to put in central heating or insulation. The new colleges will be ready by 2013, and...http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/008349.html Walking, Yes, Indeed, I'm Talking- June 7, 2008 Rex walks! Several steps at a time now. Pretty confident about it. Rex talks! Down, shoes, jay (as in blue jay), and a host of b words, sometimes indistinguishable: banana, book, ball, block, Ben, bottle, and so on. When Rex doesn't know what something's called, he points at it and says, "Bah!"http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/008347.html Latest Economist Article- June 7, 2008 I wrote a short, but I think interesting article about IPv6, the next-generation Internet address scheme, and why it's both critical but not urgent to transition to it. We're watching a very slow-moving accident as a train approaches a bunch of cars parked on a road, and everyone is mosying slowly to their cars, jangling their keys, to drive them off the tracks. IPv6 replaces the current IPv4 addressing systems--numbers like 192.168.1.2--with a much larger set of possible numbers. 4 billion..http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/008346.html Get Your Ferry On- June 2, 2008 Ben and I took a very brief trip to Port Townsend to visit the 'rents and my aunt and uncle on Thursday and Friday. This was kind of a dry run, since we have traveled about 5% as much as most of our friends with one or two kids. Ben has gone to Connecticut by plane three times (Lynn's parents), and I think to Eugene by car three times (my folks). Rex has never slept away from home, unbelievably. But we're planning a modest trip in the fall to Maine, and we're thinking about traveling a bit..http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/008334.html |