Author: Robert

Robert Belknap has been writing online sporadically since 2001. See the colophon for more details.

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Haven’t felt much like posting recently. Here are some tidbits:

I still have a backlog of images to get online.
Justn had his first major cold last week. He’s 97% over now.
We’ve started giving him “solid” food. Rice cereal was first. Last week, it was peas. This week, it’s carrots.
Justin isn’t a fan of peas, (that could have been because of the cold,) but he does like carrots.
He’s also so close to crawling it isn’t even funny. He’s got the strength to hold him self up and the basic idea about the movments needed to propel himself forward, he just needs to finish putting it all toghether. (I wouldn’t be suprised if daycare says he’s done it when I go pick him up today.)
We’ve found new daycare. I don’t think I posted much about why we pulled him out of the old one, and I’m not sure I’m going to, either.
We’re going to Gaskell’s this weekend. (Justin will be spending the evening with his grandparents.)
We’re going to be in a wedding next month. I’m going to wear purple converse sneakers with my tux. 🙂
Work’s been much the same. New projects, same headaches.

That’s enough for now.

Egad!

I decided to log into gmail and see if I could reproduce this problem. (Sorry Fox, working fine for me…)

I just noticed that I have 50 invites to give away – (well actually 200, since I have 4 gmail addresses)

I get the reasoning behind the invites, (a way to ramp up the user-base for testing in a slow, meterable way to avoid flooding the system while still in development – oh yeah and a great way to generate word-of-mouth marketing/hype…) but what am I going to do with 200 invites? At this point, all my friends and family that want a gmail account has one.When is Gmail going to exit beta, or even just open up registration to anyone that wants an account?

I’m just wondering…

I suck

I haven’t posted any new pictures since mid-December. I should fix that one of these days. I’ve got a bunch of good holiday shots as well as some other random stuff floating around on my HD, backup CDs (from the computer migration), and camera.

I also haven’t written much about Justin and how he’s doing. (And how his parents are doing…) I feel like I really should be doing more of that.

how’s that for an entry (almost) completely void of content?

Edited on Jan 29th 2005, 17:20 by Hooloovoo

One more reason I love G-Blog

There has been a LOT of buzz the last couple of days about Google’s new “nofollow” link attribute intended to combat comment spam, including discussions about why it won’t help or how to abuse it.

I’m not going to link to any of the discussions here, but they’re easy to find. I just wanted to point out that I’ve never been comment spammed on G-Blog. Why? Becuase G-Blog requires you to have an account before you can leave a comment on a blog here, and if a spammer felt it was worth it to do so, I’m sure they’d get marked as a ‘bozo’ pretty quickly.

Just wanted to say thanks again to Gossip for building such an awesome site. 🙂

New system

after a couple of bumps (easily solved by replacing new IDE cable for the cd-r and dvd drives with one that works.) My new system is up and running. Now begins the long process of downloading and installing apps and patches, adn tweaking settings.

Firefox was first (after norton antivirus.) NWN and CoH are next up. (MMM 8 months of patches for an mmo over 56k…) I think I’ll be checking out open office as well as some other non-microsoft “productivity” apps.

-Hool

uhm – when did g-blog start serving google ads?

gossip – I have a screen shot of one of your recent blog entires with an ad from google in the sidebar. Is that intentional, or has some piece of ad serving software managed to get itself installed on my work machine?

[Spoilers] [/Spoilers]
in spoilers because it’s big. and I apologize for the poor quality of the image, I dont have a decent screen shot taker here. that was created in paint…