In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, my wife's pregnant! The stick you saw below was a positive pregnancy test kit!

So today we went over to University Hospital to get an initial check up done and while the doctor was using the ultrasound scanning thingy and pointed to that little blinking thing on screen saying "See that's the little heart right there." While he was trying to go for an awwww reaction from me I was more interested on the fact that on the device itself he could after pausing the display, call up a mouse pointer, drag a line the size of the fetus and then the device gave out a length measurement and an estimated fetal age for the given fetal length. Interesting! My wife punched me in the arm once she figured out what I was staring at...

Then came the fun part, paying the bill and picking up the medicine. Damn.. that process just took about as long as the examination itself, possibly longer. So... why UH as some of you might ask? Well the place might not have a good rep but the doctor comes highly recommended.

Well... from all accounts the doctor reckons the fetus is ok!! Now once we get passed the rocky first trimester we should be in the clear.

I'm just glad there was only ONE fetus visible on screen! :P

Hey.. err... anyone know what causes a false positive on these things?

Change is always for the better.. usually.

Life changing changes... Now you better hope those are for the better!

Every family that has multiple computers would most likely need a central server for certain tasks. During the weekend I traded my old tower system for a new barebones Shuttle module, installed WinXP MCE 2005 on it and then set up a public fileshare so that it can hold all the digital photos that have been taken by my camera.

Hooked up and shared the only printer in the house so that the printer doesn't need to be carried around to be used, the wife was really berating me a LOT for not doing this earlier!

Then installed Skype on the machine and connected and plugged in a USB handset to it so Skype calls can be made and picked up easier.

Then the reason I installed MCE instead of plain WinXP pro was because I wanted to use my XBox 360 to connect to it so it can be used to cache display all the photos that are stored in the systemon the TV. And once I got everything running... DAMN the pictures look nice and sharp on the TV via a component connection!

Welcome to the family, and hope you serve me as well as your older brethen!

When running an online voting site that doesn't really have any sort of user authentication method other than using cookies to see wheter the person has voted within the last hour. Data must be constantly scrutinized to ensure that no one is stuffing the ballot box.

To prevent bots from spaming votes, you need to use a CAPTCHA control like this one.

So, now people can't use bots to fill your ballot boxes anymore so are you safe from getting invalid votes?

No!

Do not underestimate the power of feminity! A properly equiped and highly trained female is about to convince legions of interested people to Click On Vote->Clear Cookies->Click On Vote... rinse and repeat.

Nothing against women but that's what the data is telling me. In fact the person doing it is getting so good at all that he's topping one entry every about 10 seconds, which after some tweaking of Firefox I too as able to do so it's humanly possible to stuff the box and there's nothing you can do about it without any sort of SERVER SIDE VALIDATION!