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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
I know for a fact that this is a lie – if I said I paid attention in 10% of high school, that would be being um… generous. I always could take tests well though: You paid attention during 100% … Continue reading
Week 31: 10 weeks left?!?!!!!
30 weeks. 6-7 weeks until Small Monster could be born and considered full-term (I’ve heard varying times on that). Seriously. Holy… crap. Tomorrow is the ultrasound… from everything I’ve read (and from comments from other folks here as well as … Continue reading
Week 30: Uncommon names…
29 weeks, 6 days. So, out of curiosity, I headed to the U.S. Social Security site to see how common Small Monster’s name (well, the one we’ll call him by) is. Turns out it’s never been in the top 1000 … Continue reading
Under construction…
Ok, so this lovely blog may be on and off for the rest of the afternoon – I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and have had a few issues, so it may look funny for a few hours (my favorite … Continue reading
Cleanin’ up my feeds
Oh, I feel so organized. After forever and a day of using my private Livejournal friends-list as my RSS reader, I finally decided it wasn’t working for me. I ended up with a page flooded with one feed’s posts if … Continue reading
Best… xkcd… evah!
Soooo true (click to embiggen): If I had a thicker skin, I suppose the best revenge would be to actually SEND such losers naked pics of me. But, um, not even I want to see those…
Week 30: It’s HUGE!!!!
29 weeks, 1 day. Had an OB appointment today, which went fine, for the most part. Blood pressure is back down, and baby is fine. Well, except that he may be enormous… Both my OB 2 weeks ago and the … Continue reading
Not to worry, please…
I got an e-mail after a few of my recent posts asking if I was really ok, or if I were putting on a brave face for everyone else’s benefit. The answer is that I’m really ok, for the most … Continue reading
A note to Small Monster from the Internets, taken totally out of context…
My old buddy Karen sent me a message today checking on up me, and included the following in response to my last pregnancy post: A PS for Small Monster: Mommy’s tummy is sooooo good for you. Stay long. Stay as … Continue reading
Bad Behavior
So I finally got sick of some of the stuff that gets through my blog comment spam filter, especially empty comments that I presume are probing for the ability to spam (although I will say that in general, Akismet does … Continue reading
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