Month: April 2005

Crawling attempt

Crawling attempt

Every time we put Maxim on his belly, he uses his hands to hold his head and upper torso up. He can stay like this for a few minutes. He also attempts to crawl, moving his legs, trying to find something to push away from. When he gets tired, his head starts bouncing from side to side. He tries to catch it, which exsausts him even faster. And than, he just falls on his side (check the last picture in the album for the display of that). As far as the books suggest, he is developing slightly ahead of time. But that’s nothing to worry about, our pediatrician says.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-04-28_POTD

9 weeks

Today marks the end of 9th week of Olga’s and my parenthood. Times slow starts moving again and hopefully will catch up in a few weeks or month.

Maxim is growing and developing at a speed of light. He’s learning so much every day that I don’t even attempt to blog it all. New sounds, new looks, new moves – we are clapping our hands about something cute in the morning, and by the afternoon we don’t notice it anymore, because he is doing it all the time and he has learned a bunch of new stuff already. I’m thinking about making a short movie showing all of his activities (or at least those that he would display during the shooting time). I just have to find the video camera (but I think I know where from I will find it :) ).

From the list of major milestones, today was the first time we used bast whisp (I am not sure this is the correct turm, but it was the only one suggested by the dictionary) to wash Maxim. He was hand washed before, but now he is one step more into the adult life. I think he didn’t mind it at all.

Subversion and file permissions

I’ve been assigned to a new project at work today. It was decided to use Subversion for version control. I haven’t used Subversion before, though I’ve read a lot about it.

Few minutes into it, I’ve got my first question: “How can I make Subversion store file permissions and ownership?”. Googling for two seconds didn’t turn out any results, so I went straight to Subversion’s IRC channel (#svn @ irc.freenode.net). Here’s the answer that I got:

Subversion does not version permissions. There exist 2 wrapper scripts which you can use instead of “svn” for commit, checkout, update, etc., and store permissions in properties. They are: asvn and svn+perms. Last but not least there is a patch which adds the functionality into the svn core.

(I edited it a bit for the better linking).

Also, I’ve also been pointed to this blog.

UAZ in Japan

UAZ is selling cars in Japan.

Luckily I can save this in multiple categories, otherwise it would have gone into Humor without any hesitation. You see, UAZ is one of those monster Soviet factories producing cars. Actually, cars is too much of a word for those products. Cans is more like it. After some thinking I can find only one reason for selling those cans in Japan – export/import of metals. Last time I saw one, UAZ looked like it was done from the military tank armor. There’s surely some value in that.