ukrainian-phrases

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

RandomURL: Tips for Travelling in the South. How not to get your ass kicked in the south. I grew up in Southeastern Virginia, which most Southerners will still begrudgingly accept as Southern, and this list of tips is both accurate and hysterical.

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Thief Of Time, a light fantasy-sci-fi in the vein of Douglas Adams' H2G2 series or Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom series, and really enjoying it. If that's your bag, do check out Pratchett's Discworld books. (3.5 out of 5 whatevers).

(This post is copied from this one on the support forums, I want to make sure my |WordPress| code has a home on this site.)

|Jodi| and I are celebrating 6 years of marriage today! On August 15, 1998, Jodi and I walked down the aisle in Episcopal Church of the Messiah and into that primary place in each others lives. We've had some hard times, but these 6 years have been wonderful.

Some our our good friends and family have asked how they can help out in our adoption adventure. As a service to them I've created a How To Help page and linked to it from the adorable adoption graphic in the right sidebar of this page. Ok, now everyone go look at the cute graphic...

Jodi: I get to speak these long coveted words:

So, Jodi and I got our first couple of packets of paperwork last night, and started filling out forms and such. This is a process that is going to involve wading through magnificent stacks of paperwork, but the reward will be worth it!

|Bill Brown|: Die Spammers! >If you are a comment spammer (or his bot representative), I wish only the most unspeakable evil on you. You are a blight on the Internet and whatever function you serve is disgusting, ignoble, and repugnant.

This coming Sunday, Jodi and I will celebrate our 6th anniversary. It's been 6 awesome years with a woman I loved and appreciated, and have grown to respect and cherish. For most of those 6 years, Jodi and I have been trying to conceive, or TTC as it's called in the circles we find ourselves in.

There's a Better Image Rotator over at A List Apart. Better, that is, than this one I posted about earlier.

Steven from Panic complains about how complicated it got to redesign his MovableType weblog. Several of us chimed in to promote |WordPress| -- no wonder the community is growing so quickly. :-D

I've been getting a lot of "referers" lately from an unnamed website, so I went in search of ways to block, or at least annoy, them. I found this article from Ed Costello on Blocking Referer Spam. I've implemented a variation on one of his techniques, targetted at this particular spammer. Now to see if it helps.

Just found a nifty image rotator in this A List Apart article: Random Image Rotation.

Sometime the hardest decisions.... aren't.

An IT guy at Jodi's company just told her that Mac networks were "insecurable". (pause for riotous laughter.) It's like she IM'd me:

Inspired by |Dunstan Orchard|'s entry on how he's presenting times in his blog posts, I've added a similar feature to monkinetic, helped along by the lovely |WordPress| plugin that phu developed.

|Dave Shea| gave his CSS Crib Sheet a permanent home. It's a great resource for things to keep in mind when building standards-compliant websites.

Steve wrote to point out that the main function in Link Linker rm_link, was conflicting with the wp-amazon plugin. I've fixed the problem and uploaded a new version.