Monday we heard back from OnTrack. They say there's nothing more they can do. It's dead, dead. No bits to scrape off. All gone. Apparently it suffered massive head crash and the surface damage was too severe.

However, there are some other prospects for recovering some of the data. For …

So... as of this afternoon both of the wee ones are eating normally and sending things through ok... That's probably enough said, but YAY! Let me just say that again... YAY!

All (remaining) Beavis and Butthead jokes aside, this rather nifty looking device is the perfect gift for any tech wizard with a desk that wishes it were in Hawaii. Admittedly, I think it would be a bit more useful if it were a touch larger and housed a 2.5 …

At least... that is the way it has seemed for the wee lass and her brother. He started on Saturday morning with some symptoms too disgusting to describe in detail, followed quickly by fatigue and a general lack of energy that lasted until late today. Most of the fatigue and …

So, we heard back from Gillware yesterday. They were unable to recover any files. They did, however, suggest that the drive might still be recoverable by OnTrack, and offered to put them in touch with me. OnTrack called within an hour and was very optimistic. Gillware offered to send the …

That sucking sound you hear is Jen's hard drive imploding under its own mass. Around noon it died, and bad us, we haven't backed it up in a long time. I have a backup set of DVDs labeled May 2003...

So, the question, in addition to what to do about …

Very few things amuse me more than insignificant wannabes who think they can own my box for more than a few minutes. My system paged me last night about 5 minutes after some dork exploited a hole in Drupal 4.6.1 and started laying down tracks all over /tmp …

Went to see Revenge of the Sith... I think it was very enjoyable. I've heard a lot of people saying it was the best (of episodes I-III). I can't really refute that but I'm not sure I agree. It was certainly worth watching and I do recommend it.

Without spoiling …

As a brief follow-up to my experiences with the Tiger upgrade, I have some news about my iFruit. As you may recall, I had trouble syncing my PDA after updating to Tiger. The fine people at Mark Space made a valiant effort to walk me through isolating the issue, with …

Welcome Sarah Grace "Grace" Bolton, born 5/16/05 @ 8:34AM. Click for details. <http://sweetpea.rootaction.net/?q=node/55>`__

Jennifer's pregnancy web log.

Pictures of Grace in the gallery.