Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-10-26
- GSig — Graphical signature for Gmail users
- Inverse Symbolic Calculator
- File Systems — Good review of available file systems
- Microsoft house (picture)
Year: 2005
Not his day
Today was probably Maxim’s worst day so far. He attempted and received a number of injuries that would have normally be more than enough for a whole week.
He started the morning by finding a very dangerous fin of a dried fish that I misplaced yesterday. He put it in his mouth and kept it unnoticed until he started choking on it. I was on my way to work already, but luckily Olga was close enough to notice and fast enough to act upon it. The fin was safely removed from Maxim’s mouth.
Closer to the lunch time, Maxim crashed his face into a remote control. It was not particularly bad judging from his behaviour. He didn’t cry or complain too much. But there were a few drops of blood noticed by Olga. Apparently, he injured his mouth. Nothing serious though.
Later, he did his Grand Injury. He fell and hit the wooden chair with his right eye. That was something! Both him and Olga were crying for unknown period of time ( I was still at work). Maxim’s eye was so hurt that it closed and wasn’t opening any more. It hurted so much that he was even holding cold tooth ring himself. Usually he just throws them away. When I came home in the evening, his eye looked OK, except that it was surrounded by a blue and red scratchy kind of bruise.
Now, he is safely sleeping in his bad, so I guess, we can close this day in his calendar. Not a good day. Hopefully, though, he learned a lesson or two…
Missing some regexp knowledge
Once in a while I come across some topic that I should have learned a billion years ago. Something very basic and useful that I had a chance of seeing many times but haven’t, or probably had and ignored it. Today I found out that I was missing an important bit of Perl regexp knowledge. And you will probably laugh in my face when I’ll tell you.
Perl vs. Java vs. any other programming language
Ovid once again does an excellent job. This time he talks about choosing proper tools for the job, using computer programming languages as examples.
Do not choose solutions if you don’t know what the problem is.
One of those parenting deadends
Parenting is a lot of fun and a lot of work. And while most of the work is routine, the truly difficult times are when a parent has to be creative to solve this or that problem. Teaching the kid a new trick or explaining a new concept – these are the tough ones, not all the cooking, feeding, and cleaning.
Olga and I have come to one of those parenting deadends, when we really don’t know what to do. With Maxim’s new transportation skills like crawling and walking, he is getting very mobile. He can reach places he never could and he can find things he never should. Some of this things can be moved higher and further. Others can’t.
So, the time came to teach him places that he can’t go and things he can’t touch. Not even that yet. I am going to far. Limitations. That is what we need to teach him. The idea is that either father or mother may not approve doing certain things and he should understand that he should do them.