Olivia Is Here!!!

Our newest beautiful baby girl is here!!!

After a two-hour window of hard labor and only two pushes, Olivia Anne was born today at 1:52PM. She weighed 6lbs, 8ozs and measured 18 and one-quarter inches.

And Amy was incredible!

Iranian President's Blog

Iran's leader, Ahmadinejad, has launched a blog. Presumably it is to raise support for his causes and stir a lot of trouble. Lest you've forgotten, one of his stated goals is to cause such a disruption to the world that the Islamic messiah (which, funny enough, seems to be the Bible's description of the Antichrist) would have to show up to straighten it all out ... he's helping to push us toward the end.

His first entry, 2500 words about his poor and oppressed upbringing and punctuated with anti-American, anti-Western rhetoric, is very long (think the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy back to back, with features, but without action or relevance to the Western world). He even apologizes and promises to make future posts simpler and shorter.

Gee, if only that were my sole complaint...

Thought for the Day

Beauty is defined by maturity and grace. A skinny idiot is still repulsive.

Kickin' Bootay

Check out the Keynote addressing Apple's upcoming operating system, named Leopard. It's an hour and a half, so do it when you have the time.


It's got some pretty good stuff in there ... Time Machine to automatically back up your entire system (cool 3D UI as well); Web Clips to create your own widgets; Notes and To-Do's in your Mail account to keep you on track (it's a bigger deal than it sounds ... and it syncs with your calendar, duh); Mail now has stationery you can drop your own photos into; iChat has cool 3D or video backgrounds; you can show pretty much any slideshow (Keynote, Pages, iPhoto, etc.) over Video iChat with whomever you are talking to; and there are a few sucker punches on Windows in the first thirty minutes. That's gonna leave a mark.

Apple's got Leopard. And Microsoft has a cat—a copycat.

Nipping "Mine!" In The Bud

For every parent, there has been a handful of nagging questions about how to raise their kids to be great people. But as Christians we have a few more levels we want to see our kids understand. To a great degree, parents represent and display "God" to their kids, and whether we want to accept it or not, we are their primary influence when it comes to how they view Him.

How do we do that without having to re-teach them in a few years? I'm only going on theories at the moment, so if any of you have a few ideas to pass on, I would really appreciate it.

WWDC06

The WWDC06 starts today ... that's the WorldWide Developers Conference for Apple. They are previewing "Leopard", the new operating system for Mac—which would make it the fourth complete revamp to come out since Windows released their last version. I'm excited to see what they've done to the interface ... maybe given it a facelift or made all the confirmation dialog boxes uniform. I'm hopeful that they would introduce something as important (in the computing world, that is) as Exposé, Widgets, or (an updated) Spotlight, but the experts have been saying that I shouldn't hold my breath. For sure, they will be shooting to make Vista look like Nickelodeon Kids. Shouldn't be hard.

I'll be watching Steve Jobs' Keynote Webcast as soon as it comes out. And so will the rest of IHOP's Web Development and IT Team.