June 2010
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Adoption: It's time!
This is the second post in a series about our adoption trip. Read the first post if you dare.
Fast forward to Friday May 7th, 2010, 6:30PM at O’Hare. We were supposed to leave at 3:30, but we’ve had interference from a volcano, the plane was at the wrong gate, it’s tow truck busted, and now our pilot and first officer have had to go to the plane to taxi it to our actual gate...
Domain redirection pet peeve
I’ve had a pet peeve for a long time when it comes to bootstrapping a new site. I always seem to have to update the web server config on a server to forward somedomain.com to
www.somedomain.com for some reason or another. There are a few reasons for needing the redirect. DNS is the big technical one. It also just looks pretty bad to have somedomain.com setup, but not www.somedomain.com...
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Adoption: Getting the Call
It’s February 22nd, 2010, around lunchtime and I’ve just finished ordering a fancy ham and cheese at Artisan, a local fancy sandwich making shop. It’s my first time here, but I’m with two of my co-workers, and they’re regulars. I’m a bit confused because there’s no obvious good place to stand and wait for my fancy sandwich. So, I’m standing around...
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Meet our son - Gavin
It’s been 2 weeks since we’ve arrived home from Ethiopia with this handsome guy.
Gavin smiles a lot, seems to like everyone he meets and gets very cranky when he’s hungry. He was born in Assela just over 5 months ago and he’s our first child. Right now he has a bit of a cold, or sinus infection of some sort that our doc is helping us work through, but otherwise...