Written on February 28, 2006 at 8:01 PM by Ron.
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Never give an imaginary cookie to a 14 Month Old. I am speaking from recently gained experience.
Among the numerous other toys that our spoiled older child has accumulated of the few years of his life is a set of “play” McDonald’s food. Among them are RJ’s and Tony’s favorites, cookies, fries and chicken nuggets. They frequently get grilled on the toy grill, and have been “eaten” too many times to count. However, this time was different. Tony is finally at an age where he comprehends much of what we say. Like any child that age he comes running when he hears the word cookie.
We were in the basement, the boys playroom, like we are most evenings, when RJ began playing with his “food.” He said, “Goof boys share, so I am going to share.”
He proceeded to give everyone a piece of this imaginary cookie. When it was Tony’s turn, Tony delightfully reached for some nonexistent cookie. Upon the realization that there was no cookie, Tony lost all composure. I am firmly convinced passers assumed that something heinous was transpiring in our house. Tony let out a burst of blood curdling screams that could have roused someone in a coma. Yes, it was that loud.
Like I said: Never give an imaginary cookie to a 14 Month Old.
Written on February 23, 2006 at 6:37 AM by Ron.
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Google has launched a free page hosting service. The editing page and a published page are pictured above. I would have posted the link to the page, but I used my personal address, and the subdomain name is your gmail user name.
This looks more promising than a lot of the free web space places that I have signed up for before, and editing the HTML(link) is easy. There is an option to upload files, up to 100M of storage, for your web pages.
Written on February 21, 2006 at 6:30 PM by Ron.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
There is a really good write up and a great discussion going on over at Say Anything. The basic premise of the post is that overemphasizing no law respecting an establishment of religion by the ACLU and like-minded groups, they are suppressing the free exercise thereof.
I have long felt this way, but never put it so succinctly. Go check it out.
Written on February 19, 2006 at 7:58 PM by Ron.
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It is a wonderful thing to see the world through the yes of a child. I am amazed every time RJ comes up with something that we have not taught him, and even more amazed what derivatives he comes up with on the things we did teach him.
According to RJ, the four magic words are:
- Please.
- Thank you.
- You’re welcome.
- Abracadabra.
Yes, I know that these are not all “words,” but rather are phrases, but RJ is three, so I will give him some leeway.
RJ’s latest revelation is that he has a brain, but it is little. I do not know where he comes up with this stuff, but Beth and I were rolling on the floor laughing.
Not that I think too highly of FrontPage (anymore), I am disappointed to see it drop from Microsoft’s roster.
Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year.
Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s, and it soon outdistanced Adobe’s PageMill and other popular low-cost what-you-see-is-what-you-get Web-creation tools.
FrontPage was the software that I used to build my first web site. That was over a decade ago. It was a simple site for a college project. My undergraduate degree is in music education, if that tells you anything about my complete ignorance at the time. I saved that site for nearly four years before it finally saw the world wide web. I went out and bought FrontPage the day before I registered my first web site, just to update and upload the site I had began four years earlier.
I continued to use FrontPage for probably the next six or seven months. Then I got persuaded, mostly because of the lack of any other option, to update my company web site. Of course FrontPage was not available, and I was introduced to DreamWeaver. It was with the introduction of DreamWeaver that I actually started looking at code instead of using a WYSIWYG editor. It was a crash course for me, and to this day I can definitely say that I have learned just enough to be dangerous.
With that little knowledge of code I switched to using Notepad++ as my editor of choice. It is small, quick and supports syntax highlighting, which I am lost without. It also integrates nicely into Firefox via use of the run menu. That, in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar and other great extensions, is my complete toolkit.
The other day I was asked to update a not as yet functional section of the intranet where I work. As I embarked on this task, the person I was helping opened FrontPage and, looking back, I had to chuckle.