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Baby Names v2.0
July 07, 2004

I was suposed to have created a voting page for baby names long before now, and I’m just a slacker.

Anyway, I’ve at least assembled some of the names that Berta and I like. These are not all of the names that we might choose from, nor are all of these names contenders. For example, there is no way that I would name my son Warren. No. Way.

I wasn’t going to differentiate who had picked what names, but I will mention that I did not pick any boys names that begin with “W”. Not to point any fingers at Berta or anybody.

Nonetheless, here is what we’ve got so far. I would be surprised if the actual name we use is not in amongst these names. Right now for a girl’s name, I’m favoring Darcy. And for a boy, I still like Darien, but Riley is pretty cool.

In case it hasn’t dawned on you why any of this is important, tomorrow is the ultrasound, and we may find out whether it is a boy or girl. It might be a bad idea to reveal which it is until we get some good names on both sides, because we don’t want to be surprised in November and have to choose one at random. But we’ll see. Anyway, the names:

Project-Blog Troubles
July 07, 2004

It looks like the Project-Blog thing is going to be a pain in the butt.

If you wanted to donate to my cause, you would have to create an account, which requires providing an email address. A message is sent to that address, which you must respond to before you can pledge any donation to my charity. This seems like an incredible hassle. I think that only really dedicated folks will go through the trouble of creating accounts and whatnot, and when I did it myself, I had all sorts of issues.

Sticky Posts
July 07, 2004

I wrote a new plugin for WordPress that lets you mark posts as sticky very easily. A sticky post is one that appears at the top of the output all of the time.

It’s different from most of the other sticky stuff I’ve seen for two reasons: It doesn’t require you to edit any WordPress source, and you only have to check a box on the editing interface to make a post stick. Most other plugins insist that you make changes to the somewhat delicate WordPress post querying code, or type something into a meta field to get a post to stick. Not this.

The United Way
July 07, 2004

I remember seeing their goofy commercials on TV when watching Saturday morning cartoons. They always struck me as a kind of hokey organization. But after looking around for a charity that I can really believe in, the United Way suits me best.

The main thing about the United Way that makes it different from most publicized charities is that it works in your community. If I ask you to donate to the United Way, I don’t want you to donate to my United Way (although that would be nice of you). I fully expect that you will donate to your local United Way.

The Death of Pizza
July 06, 2004

On the way to work this morning I noticed that Quattro Pizza is closed. The sign is laying on the ground next to the building. That place has been a pizza joint for as long as I can remember. We used to order our pizza from there a long time ago, perhaps even when we were living on Logan Ave.

They had a Dig Dug arcade machine that we played when we went to pick up pizza. I don’t remember ordering pizza for delivery ever, even if we did. I can’t recall exactly - it was too long ago. But that just shows how long this place has been around. At least 20 years.