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|Jodi| just posted a great summary of current events and call to prayer for all of our believing friends and family. Fighting On Our Knees is a look into the arbitrary workings of the Ukrainian bureaucracy, and the seeming randomness affecting our adoption process. Please join us in prayer!

Ok, friends and neighbors, physical and virtual! |Jodi| and I have decided that it's high time we hold another Arizona Blogger get-together here at our abode in good ol' Gilbert. Back on '02, we hosted a similar event, the AZ/NY Blogger BBQ (guests arriving, Taboo!!, Mark's notes, Marks' pictures) .

Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:

Jodi's iPod shuffle went bork the other day - we had connected it successfully to both her TiBook and my PowerBook and updated her music, but then after a few days it refused to be recognized by either machine. No lights, it didn't show up on the desktop or in iTunes, and System Profiler didn't see it on the USB bus. Wah. Just ot be sure I took some time and ran through the instructions on this Apple Discussions post, to no avail.

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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:

>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.

This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and #When:8:25:44AM">Dave too.)

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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:

>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.

This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and Dave too.)

I had the fortune of participating in a Tech Chat this weekend with Kreg Stepp, David Newberger, and Robert Kloosterhuis. The Tech Chat is a podcast roundtable discussion created, hosted, and usually moderated by Kevin Devin. Thanks to Kevin and the guys for the opportunity to hang out!

If you're looking for the page on how you can donate to our adoption fund, it's been moved to adoption/how-to-help/.

I just upgraded to Wordpress 1.5 - please be patient until I get the look and feel back.

I'm trying to get the php accelerator MMCache running on a Mac running Mac OS X 10.3.7, and it's failing. I've followed the install instructions on Jacken's weblog, and tried the install process described in this Appletalk Australia article.

Via Journal of Election Madness: Yushchenko's Inauguration

I'm on the horn on Skype (a voice-over-ip softphone) with Robert Kloosterhuis from the Netherlands. Robert is one of the participants in Kevin Devin's Tech Chat podcast, which I listen to religiously, so it's cool to get to know him a bit better.

>Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.

A couple of us are going to Edward Tufte's one-day course at the end of this month - I am seriously excited about this. Part of the swag is three of Tufte's books. W00t! :-D

I have 40 Gmail invites to give out. Send me an email at steveivy@gmail.com with a couple of lines saying why you want a Gmail account. Now with POP tastiness!

This snippet from Le Sabot Post-Moderne explained for me why many people in Russia, Ukraine, and other post-soviet states continue to support, even elect, strongman (read near-dictatorial) leaders like Putin and Yanukovych:

A random idea I had the other day: create a distributed client system like SETI, where the processing time is being donated to third world or developing countries where processing power is hard to get. I don't know what the data sets would be, nor how it would all be setup, but it's an idea.

Le Sabot Post-Moderne - Yanukovych -- Left, Right or Nowhere?:

Hello out there! Sorry for the lack of updates lately - a deadline at work is fast approaching, and I've been putting me energies there, as well as our adoption. But, so as to not leave all you folks in interweb-land in the dark, some highlights:

As |Jodi| says in her own wonderful way: