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Urban Potato is a journal of the activities of Danna, Brian and two very fuzzy, slightly off-centered and sometimes neurotic cats. Come inside and view our sometimes warped perceptions of the planet on which we live.
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We're comparing Cole's growth with a stuffed monkey. I call this the Monkey Shot (tm).
We went to dinner at Assagio's to celebrate our birthdays and Brian had a big surprise for me...some of you may be thinking it's about time!!!
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Our good friend Megan sponsors a "Beers N Gears" ride every year. Here are a few pics.
I have a confession: I'm a closet iPhone user. And I just waited in line six hours for a new one.
A few shots of Cole before summer.
A few quick shots from Easter.
Cole turns two
Cole's stringing words together nicely. Some patterns are funnier than others.
Cole's vocabulary is growing everyday...somedays we can understand the new additions and other days it requires a little translation. The Coletionary is the "must-have" tool for anyone hoping to communicate with The Boy.
Past halloweens have been drinking extravangazas. Now that we have The Boy (TM) they're a little more reserved.
Cole becomes more articulate.
Cole continues to get larger. And faster.
I've learned a lot about virtual servers over the last few days. I now understand why all my web sites have been down for the majority of the day.
We won a trip to Bali in an auction last year and it's time to collect.
From looking in my blog I see that its been three years since I last performed a server upgrade. It's time again.
I bought an iPhone and I don't even feel dirty. There is a lot of good, but a lot of bad too.
It was bound to happen. Cole turned one. We threw a party. There were many little kids. Longer sentences are beyond me. I need to recover from the shock.
A few shots of Cole at eleven months.
Cole celebrates his first Christmas.
A few pictures of Cole as he hits the ten month mark.
I've given up trying to fight spam comments. It's simply not worth my time to fight them, nor is it worth your time to fight some fancy captcha or registration system.
Lutz is at it again. He's pointed me to a very cool tool that allows you to disassemble BAML files into the correct XAML. Check it out.
Randy hosted a nice pre-Christmas party. Check out the pics.
We loaded up the car and drove to Wild Ole Elko, Nevada for Thanksgiving with the folks.
Random snaps of Cole as he approaches the nine month mark.
Jim and Richard are grapling with the naming of the adorner placement APIs in Cider. Here's a link to Jim's blog. Check it out, and let Jim know your favorite name.
A few pictures of Cole at eight months.
Cole takes his first visit to the pumpkin patch.
This was the first time I've been back to my alma mater since I graduated, and without going into details that was a hell of a long time ago.
Cole's hip surfer days are over. It's all business now.
Pictures of Cole at seven months.
Cole struggles with keeping food in his mouth, goes on a hike and learns to crawl...sort of.
We're having some debate about what rules we should use when naming controls in Cider.
Yes, we still have a son...he has been keeping us busy with teething, eating and sitting and we haven't had much time for updating the website.
More pictures of the little monkey.
I got some good feedback about our proposal for adding a design mode property to WPF. That feedback, combined with some help from a few architects has allowed us to change our story.
See how Cider and Sparkle are adding (and hopefully improving) the DesignMode property that has been available to Windows Forms developers.
Still growing, still smiling
Can he get his foot in his mouth??? Not yet, but darn close.
Cole spent 2 weeks visiting family and friends in Utah and Nevada.
Check out the new developer community site for .NET 3.0: NetFX3.com.
Cole is growing like a weed and learning new things every day.
We're comparing Cole's growth with a stuffed monkey. I call this the Monkey Shot (tm).
Cole at six weeks. He's big, he's bad. He's still a little bit floppy.
Well, in an embarassing kind of way. Someone on Fark was kind enough to use my picture in a contest of best animated GIF. I love it.
How does Cider handle user input and display UI and adornments to the end user? Cider builds upon patterns we designed for Windows Forms to create a simple and flexible mechanism for handling all sorts of UI interactions.
Lately there's been a lot of stuff in the news. Let's unionize Microsoft becase its programmers are so taken advantage of! Microsoft's salaries aren't keeping up with inflation! Microsoft's employee evaluations are political and unfair! Bollocks. Look around: compeition is alive and well in the software industry.
What started as a kitty rescue attempt ended as a fine demonstration of how working at a computer for most of my life has taken a serious toll on my real world motor skills.
After a couple of weeks with Cole we're starting to get into a rythym.
After a moderate amount of fuss, Cole Redmond Pepin was born February 28th, 2006 at 3:57 PM.
Danna was able to snag me an XBox 360 for Christmas. So I guess I should be saying that Danna rocks -- which she does. Overall, I'm very impressed with the level of polish of the 360.
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