Eleven Months

Brian in Life | 0 Comments March 7, 2007

A few shots of Cole at eleven months. The theme of this month is: "Can my butt fit in that?"

Sitting
Cole likes to sit in boxes.
Winter Storm
Cole got a chance to play in the snow.
Not Impressed
Cole sits in the snow, but isn't very happy about it.
Dad Comfort
Every once in a while Danna lets me hold the boy.
Standing
Besides sitting, Cole enjoys standing up and cruising along the couch.
Sitting
Did I say that Cole enjoys sitting? He also enjoys pulling everything out of his toy box so he has a nice place to sit.

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Cole's First Christmas

Brian in Life | 0 Comments March 5, 2007

Cole celebrates his first Christmas.

Ready
Stupid Santa suit? Check. Willingness to tear into presents? Check.
I Like Bows
If we were quick, we could give Cole bow-head.
I Like Bows
If we weren't, we got caught.
The Rejection of Santa
Part One
The Rejection of Santa
Part Two
The Rejection of Santa
Part Three

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Ten Months

Brian in Life | 0 Comments March 5, 2007

A few pictures of Cole as he hits the ten month mark.

Ratio
On the left are the foam squares with telltale bite marks. On the right are untouched squares. Cole is very efficient.
Lumpy
Cole likes to look out the window. Ever wonder what his expression looks like from the other side?
Peek-a-boo
Cole surprises me from behind the chair.
Cold Couple
Cole and mom at the top of the space needle.
Ah Nuts
Cole enjoys some nuts at the space needle.
Kitty
That's as close as sly lets Cole get. Sly is a smart cat.

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Bye Bye Comments

Brian in Geek | 0 Comments February 22, 2007

Every couple of weeks I hit the admin pages of urbanpotato and delete around fifty spam comments. My spam ritual tonight left me with a surprise: navigating to the comment admin pages took the site down with 100% CPU and many hundreds of megs of cache consumed by SQL server. After restarting the site, I checked the comment tables in SQL server and, since 1/1/2007, over 48,000 comments have been added to the site.

Yes, I could use one of the many captcha methods that try to prevent spam bots. I could require registration. But in the end I decided that it's just not worth my time, or the time of people who visit. I do have a day job after all, and so do you.

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