February 2, 2009: Happy 15th Anniversary to the Ralstons

Wow, fifteen years.  I can’t believe that the Ralston’s wedding was fifteen years ago!  That is just crazy. Here is some serious xenophobia in northern Italy  – some cities are beginning to ban “foreign” foods claiming that only regional cuisine be allowed.  This is a slipperly slope since it is primarily a form of racism …

February 1, 2009: Productive Day

We have nothing much planned for today.  So after getting up this morning and everyone moving down to the living room I took over the morning Liesl schedule, helper with her exercises and tummy time and other activites, while Dominica got started on her first class at the O’Reilly School at the University of Illinois.  …

Installing Windows Server 2003 on Xen on Red Hat Linux 5

After being challenged several times during the process of installing Windows Server 2003 into a fully virtualized Xen environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5 or CentOS 5) I decided that a quick tutorial for those of you who wish to install in exactly the same way would be helpful.  There are several …

January 31, 2009: Linnea Comes to Visit

Liesl has very visibly matured today.  It is a wondrous thing to watch a child at this age because every day brings something new and exciting.  This morning Liesl began “talking” far more than she has been doing up until now.  She has been “talking” a little for some time now but it has been …