11 lbs. 12 oz. and hungry

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He spits up everytime he gets near a car, so before he went to get his shot at the doctor, he got nothing to eat. Would you looks as cute, if you gained 3 lbs every month?


Lauren is out of school for the summer now. Second grade is approaching fast. What are you doing on your summer vacation?

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!" -- Isaiah 52:7

Transcoding video

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The spec lead for Java Server Faces, Ed Burns, over at Sun Microsystems has just released a bunch of fancy AJAX stuff and made some new screencasts that show how to pimp your web sites. He mentioned that he would like to transcode his .mov video files into .flv files ... well ... the way I did that recently for Ed was using ffmpegX on my wife's powerbook. I had been using ffmpeg on linux for a while, but ffmpegX is quite easy to install and use.

You might try giving it a whirl to make videos that you want to watch on your iPod, too.

5 years old ... calls me on my cell ...

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Kara has never asked for money before today ...

My sister has more dollars than me, so ... um ... can I have two - "one dollars", and a "five dollars" ... because we could go to SeaWorld and ... I could buy a little toy ... {snicker} ... {giggle}

but something tells me this won't be the last time.

Lord, forgive me for all of the rediculous things I bothered my folks about ... sigh ... what's the use?

Thank you, Lord, for our uncountable blessings.

After his bath today ...

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I will praise You, because ...


I am fearfully and wonderfully made ... Psalm 139:14

The Hospital ...

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We just got these pictures we took at the hospital developed.

Mad at his first bath ...


Learning to burp ...


Grandma B says she has an ugly hand, but we luv her hands!


The girls with David ...


Lauren peeks in ...


Two grandmas love their grandkids ...
Notice Kara is not in this one ...
Kara took this picture!


Flowers for mommy ...


He is risen indeed.

Getting the CRUD out of the way ...

Hale Pringle has created a tool, JGuiGen, for creating screens that allow folks to do what is commonly known as CRUD among developers. CRUD stands for Create, Review, Update, and Delete. These are common tasks that you want users to be able to do for any given object.

Most developers want to work on their own more interesting stuff like graphical analysis or statistics or business logic (yuck), and so JGuiGen provides them relief from having to worry about some more mundane tasks like "making multiuser saves just work" or "code to validating data entry" or "internationalization (i18n)".

So I put together a couple of screencasts for Hale's project. If you get some pauses durring playback you can try using my cable modem for upload ... surprising how for just one user, my sad little cable modem serves up a screencast more smoothly than sourceforge, but certainly if more than one of you hit it at the same time you know what to expect.

Enjoy.