Brent’s Thoughts

A couple weekends agao we got some good pictures of Julie at the farm and with the 56.  I thought I would post them up here.

I think the last one is great.  It should be entered into a contest or something, because it could win.

i have been setting up the Teleyapper Nerdvittles Script at work on our Asterisk server and was really surprised that there was no web interface for putting entries into it.  Since they recommended using phpadmin to enter numbers and I knew that would never fly I wrote a little cgi script that would work for it.

You can download it at the bottom of this post.  You should be able to just plop it and proccgi into your /cgi-bin directory on your webserver, take the .txt off of the end of it and edit the block starting at the fourth line.  There you can set the DNS entry for your asterisk server, set the account used to login to mysql, set the password for mysql, and set the database used by teleyapper.

The scipt does require proccgi to work as it is written in shell.  I have attached my copy that is compiled for 32 bit Linux.  If you need it compiled for something else, or just don’t trust me then you can use the above URL to get the source.  It is easy to compile if you have gcc on your box.

Callees CGI Script

proccgi

**EDIT** After I posted this to a thread on Nerdvittles site, it looks like they might add it into the distribution of Teleyapper.  So that is pretty cool.

More talking about our house payments and also about a housing project that is going to be coming up near our house.  Don’t jump unless that is what you are interested in.

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I thought I had already put this up here, but a search didn’t show it.  If you need the USB drivers for it here is a set.

jvc_gr-dv500u_xp

I guess I will attribute the lack of posting here to that.  Things have pretty much just been static around here.  Julie is getting bigger, smarter, more active, but there haven’t been any crazy changes.  She says a few single words every now and then, but she isn’t really talking a bunch yet.

P is getting close to finishing her thesis for her Masters.  I think she is planning on trying to defend it here in a month or so.  I don’t know if I had mentioned it on here yet, but she went back to working everyday right around Julie’s birthday.  Julie has been in daycare with a lady that lives just a bit down the road, and she seems to really like it.

i have just been working around the house a little.  It has been cool the last few days, so I took that chance to trim all the bushes around the house back down to a more normal size.  Some of them are getting big and we are going to have to move a couple of them because there just isn’t any room in the bed anymore.

P and I put down a edging around some of the beds that made them look a little better and should make it a lot easier to keep the grass out of the mulch.

I guess things are just moving along really.

Julie had her first birthday last Friday and her first birthday party on Sunday.  Things went really well after a minor error on when everyone was supposed to be at the house.  I think Julie had a good time with the people being there and with the things that she got.  It was obvious that she enjoyed the cake, but then who doesn’t.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the two days:

A couple of weeks ago Pauline and I headed down to Nashville for Laura and Ethan’s wedding.  Ethan had ask me to be a groomsman so we got there for the rehersal and dinner afterwards.

It was great to be there and see people from college that I hadn’t seen in a while.  It was also great to meet other people that were involved in Ethan and Laura’s life that I had never met before.  Everyone got along great and had a wonderful time at the dinner, and I think I can say that we even had a pretty good time at the rehersal too.
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I uploaded some new pictures of Julie from this spring.

Julie’s First Spring

Some of my favorites:

There are also some new quick ways to get to the pictures.  On the right there are some new blocks.  The first one is just a random image from the gallery.  The next one down shows the three most recent pictures added to the gallery and the last new edition is the gallery tree on all the way at the bottom.  It allows anyone quick access to whatever part of the gallery they are wanting.

Have fun.

It seems like here at work we have quite a little collection of Engrish examples. Lamar brought this one in the other day and I thought I would share.

Engrish Remote Manual

I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning off the camera when I posted the last big mess of pictures. I pulled them off and uploaded them to the Julie gallery too.

I have some favorites in there that I thought I would highlight here: