http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Technology, parenting and whatever else I feel like piffling on about. en-us karen@hoofnagle.org 2008-06-18T18:43:16-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000361.html Well, I haven't touched this blog in far too long. Should YAPC people visit because of this post, ignore the CSS, the creaky MT install. *shrug* Whatever. I'm busy. So, I've spent the past 3 days at YAPC::NA 2008 and... 361@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2008-06-18T18:43:16-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000359.html I uploaded a bunch of Halloween parade pictures here. However, I've finally got off my rump and password protected my kids photos. I'm gonna send out the password in email to those I have email for, but... a lot of... 359@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Photos 2006-11-14T14:57:41-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000358.html So we recently lost our minds completely and allowed Betsy, our about-to-be-four-year-old, to invite everyone she knew to our house for a party. Our thinking went thusly: We will not go to Chuckee Cheese or other venue in which children... 358@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Parenthood 2006-10-10T12:17:27-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000357.html I took very very few photos of my wonderful biking vacation to Driggs. The marvelous Janet Bee, however, took more. She asked me to put them up on the net for her, so here they are: Janet's Teton Tuneup Pictures.... 357@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2006-08-20T15:37:53-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000351.html As I'm not a chaser of internet luminaries, I'd missed knowing Molly Holzschlag and her work until pretty recently. But today it's not her web-y skillz that make me pay attention to her. She posted a couple of days ago... 351@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2006-03-27T15:03:51-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000350.html Let's see. The week started with Ginger being bounced out of daycare sick within a half hour of my dropping her off on Monday. I thought she was teething, but she was running a temperature bigger than teething usually causes,... 350@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2006-01-27T22:37:52-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000349.html Ok, so for YEARs I've been in one form or another of free colocated box. I ran my own for about 3 years and then for the last 3 years I've been pooled with some friends on a box I... 349@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2006-01-22T16:17:34-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000348.html What an amazing year. I reread my Jan 1 2005 entry and 2005 pretty much delivered. I did some really amazing growing in 2005, second child and work experience as expected, unfortunate waistline post partum, etc... but 1000 other things... 348@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2006-01-02T22:02:48-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000347.html This is the first Christmas we've celebrated that Betsy really got it. Um... and man did we over do it. So herewith are my notes for next year. While some three year olds want to run mad ripping paper off... 347@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-12-25T15:03:36-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000340.html When I chase around a bunch of disparate things that've been rattling around in my head and try to make a whole single thought out of them you get stuff like the McMansions and Italian villas post. Today I've got... 340@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-12-19T12:33:51-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000346.html A number of years ago, midwife-Ann (then psychology-masters-student Ann) passed me a book called Smart Girls, Gifted Women by a research psychologist named Barbara Kerr. It was published in 1986 and has just had a 20 year update. I'll be... 346@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-12-18T15:54:51-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000345.html Some of the more fabulous things going on with the girls lately: Betsy has recently kicked fully over into imaginative play and gender role definition. She is fascinated by everyone's role in life. The idea that she is a sister,... 345@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Parenthood 2005-12-17T14:37:56-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000344.html I am now in my sixth week of the new job, which is 100% from-home except for occasional runs up to Pennsylvania to work face-to-face with my largest dedicated user base and the rare in-town trip to the Mothership for... 344@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-12-12T12:27:23-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000343.html When I stumble on connected things one right after the other, I post about them. First, I saw, in a Project Management blog I read of all places, Sarah McLaughlin's World On Fire site which will shame you as you... 343@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-11-01T13:53:59-05:00 http://www.hoofnagle.org/archives/000342.html Over the years I've taken the Myers-Briggs personality type assessment a couple of times. For what it's worth, I'm an INFP, but I only express as mildly Introverted and I teeter between Feeling and Thinking. None of which is that... 342@http://www.hoofnagle.org/ Entries 2005-10-25T14:06:43-05:00