Jon Galloway

Yesterday evening I wanted to take a quick catnap after dinner. That's not too easy with a 1 year old and a 3 year old who want to play with Dada, but I can sometimes get away with it if I convince them we're playing.

"I'm going to play 'nap on the couch' now. I'm the little baby and you can put me to sleep."

"What will you dream about?" Rosemary, the three year old, asked.

"Um... horsies and monkeys and that kind of stuff," I mumbled as I drifted off.

I woke up about 10 minutes later. I learned to appreciate even tiny doses of sleep when I was in the military.

Rosemary was standing a foot away from me, smiling. "Did your dreams come true?" she asked.

"Um... I don't know... uh..." I was groggy. I rarely remember my dreams, and usually when I do they're utter nonsense. How to answer this one?

"Wait a second, Dada." She scurried out of the room. I glanced around and noticed I was surrounded by a huge pile of stuffed horses - she'd obviously been gathering and arranging them the whole time I slept. When did we get so many stuffed horses? Rosemary returned with her only stuffed monkey, a tiny little sock monkey.

"Did your dreams come true, Dada?" She asked again, expectantly.

Yes, sweet little girl. My dreams have come true.

Scoble mentioned this morning that Google would be announcing a new tag today, so I've been keeping my eyes peeled. Anne van Kesteren just blogged about it - it looks like it's rel="nofollow".

I'm a fan of the Half-Life thing. I stink at it - unlike my little brother who finished it 4 days after it was released and is now literally lapping me, I'm still slogging through. I play for the love of the game, though, and because I really enjoy the storyline.

Managing a big feed list is a pain in the neck. The weblogs.asp.net group feed continues to add new posters (good), but the only mechanism I've found to add them in RSSBandit (or any of the other aggregators I've used) is to

I needed to copy user permissions between two SQL Server environments; this script did the trick: http://www.sql-server-performance.com/bm_object_permission_scripts.asp

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