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First Day of School

See the full gallery on posterousNoah and Jack started school last Tuesday. It was a pretty big day, as it was Jack’s first day of Kindergarten. Noah, of course, is an old pro by now being in the third grade. She was excited to get back to her friends

Joseph Maxwell!

Born at 3:44 PM on August 30, 2007, Joseph Maxwell Anderson is here. We went in at around 10:30 AM. Sarah had been having irregular contractions all night and since she was at 4 cm. already they had us come in to be checked out. After about an

What a weekend!

We took the kids out to practice riding their bikes sans training wheels this weekend. Jack, who just turned five needs some work. He didn’t really seem to be in the zone, and was easily distracted. There were a few times where it seemed he might be balancing okay,

Setting up your Mac for Ruby on Rails

I was going to write up a post with instructions on setting up your Mac for Working with Ruby on Rails because the instructions that the main Ruby on Rails site linked to were kind of long in the tooth and they suggested a web server I didn’t care

Eye of The Tiger Baby!

I secretly grabbed a video of the kids playing the Wii with the iMac’s built in iSight camera that we have in the basement. Here’s a video of Jack going to down on the heavy bag in Wii Sports Boxing training mode. </embed>

Baby #3!

It’s official, Sarah has a bun in the oven! Not that we really doubted the pregnancy test, nausea, or massive fatigue she’s been experiencing. We went to an ultrasound today, so we got a picture of the little pea sized Anderson. The ultrasound put her due date at

Wii got it!

Santa called Toys R Us this morning right when they opened and they actually had some in stock! Those Reideer were pretty damn fast and Santa got the Wii for the Anderson family. Boy is he glad he won’t have to get up ass early to sit outside Best

Wii are getting nervous

Well, this morning Santa got his ass up at 3:30 am hoping to get his hands on a Nintendo Wii. No luck. Next try will be Sunday morning early it looks like. Best Buy is apparently going to have a bunch then. Santa had the opportunity to order a

Setting up your Mac for PHP web development.

I found myself again having to install necessary web development tools on my MacBook Pro so I thought this time I’d actually document the process. After following these instructions your machine should be pretty well equipped for PHP web development. I had instructions for Ruby on Rails in here,

Install ImageMagick on OS X

It’s a good idea to keep all the source code you download in the same place. I place all mine in /usr/local/src/ Open a terminal and create that directory: $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/src $ sudo chown root:admin /usr/local/src $ sudo chmod g+wrx /usr/local/

First snow!

Last night it started snowing. This morning we have a nice ground covering of the white stuff. It will probably be gone by this afternoon, but it’s still pretty cool to see.

Lazy me

I haven’t updated in over a month. Yikes. Well I guess nothing exciting has really happened. I finished my Ruby on Rails training. It ended being well worth the trip. Since then I have been coding a web app pretty much every day at work. Still lots to learn,

I’m a Big Nerd

I’m taking a Ruby on Rails class at the Big Nerd Ranch this week. Here’s a few pics I’ve snapped with my phone so far.

Blogger takes joy in bashing Mac, blogger doesn’t tell whole story.

What a shock. I read the following in which the blogger was happy to point out how easy it was for a hacker to gain control of a new MacBook through a flaw in the wireless network drivers. Of course, he neglected to point out that the demo was using

A flash flood, and our car is toast.

Or, I guess I should say our car is soggy bread. I had to run down to campus yesterday to pick up a laptop that was being worked on, but thought I’d stop and say hi to my old coworkers at the Primate Center first. Shortly after I got

Host change successful

It took far longer than it should have but I am finally switched over to my new host. I chose to switch from site5 to TextDrive. I was not all that happy with how site5 was dealing with Rails hosting so I decided to switch. I gotta tell ya, not

Changing hosts

I’m changing site hosts and if you can read this then the change has happened. That is all.

More on Google

I’ve been fully using Google for about two weeks now and am quite happy. Gmail is great. Google Calendar is great. I’m also using a Rails application called Tracks for my GTD stuff. When I am sitting in front of a computer it is the perfect solution. The

Taking Google for a spin

I’m not sure Apple has earned my $100 this year when it comes time for my .Mac account renewal. So I’ve been taking a more serious look at what Google has to offer. I took a quick look at Yahoo!, but their new beta web mail interface is

Moo

My friend Elaine has a cow in CowParade. She got a great location right outside the Overture Center. She’s got many more pictures on her web site. There’s also a great Flickr photoset here.

Last weekend was a real pain in my ass

Sarah’s sisters were in town over the weekend. They were going to be going wedding dress shopping for Sarah’s older sister Julie. That meant the fiancé, Brett, and I were on child care duty. My two kids, and Sarah’s other sister’s two kids. All in all

A Few More Photos

Jack had a “Spring Sing” at pre-school yesterday. It was very good. It’s strange how when you have children of your own groups of 3-5 year olds singing out of tune make you smile instead of wince. It’s so funny to see the kids march up there and

Kids playing

The kids were playing in the yard the other day and I snapped a couple pictures. I also am testing an image plugin.

Oh My Lord! Someone stop me!

I changed my site software again. I’ve been playing with Ruby for a little while so I decided to try out a Ruby on Rails based blog. Looks like I’ll have use Flickr for photos for the time being though. I guess I have my first idea for

Back to Wordpress

I’ve moved the web site back to WordPress. I liked Textpattern, but there was just too much not to like I guess. At first the templating system seemed great, but it kind of wore on me after a while. Archives and a gallery are in place right now. I’