Before we had Ryan, Emily had predicted one benefit to having kids would be we could see the world afresh through their eyes.

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It’s possible for an old subversion commit to be changed after it has already been committed.  One example is someone editing a commit log message for an old revision with svn propedit -r <revision> --revprop svn:log <URL>

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My review/summary/synopsis/notes on “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error” by Kathryn Schulz:

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Great Timing

2012 January 7

I decided to carry Ryan on my shoulders today for the first time.  Since he can’t sit up on his own, I held onto his arms so that he wouldn’t fall over backward.  I carried him into the kitchen and Emily said “oh, he’s smiling!”  I wanted to see it myself, so I carried him back into the bathroom.  At this point, he wasn’t smiling anymore.  But as I was watching him watch me in the mirror, he read more…

Practicing Standing

2011 December 29

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Emily and Ryan

2011 December 29

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Neck exercise

2011 December 29

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Ryan in hooded duck towel

2011 December 29

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Ryan held up

2011 December 29

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Upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” to Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” installs Ubuntu’s Unity, which changes the configuration of the window switcher that is usually bound to Alt-Tab. Instead of switching between all windows, it now switches between applications.

These are instructions on how to revert the behavior back:

In gconf-editor:

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