Daisy has a new botyfriend at the park - his name is Gambit, and they just want to spend every moment locking lips. Here they are at Hondo park on Friday. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwQAokJUG4k

 CNN are running a segment today publicizing a GE [advertizing campain](http://www.plugintothesmartgrid.com/) for their Smart Grid which has got to be seen to be believed. If you have a camera on your PC, follow the instructions to print out the sample page and hold it anywhere in view of the camera. The flash application downloaded will create a three dimensional animation which bursts out of the page you are holding.

There are new Fedora samba packages (3.2.8) upstream, so here is another update to my samba packages to address the smbclient timeout issues which were causing BackupPC to fail. [libsmbclient](/u/2009/02/libsmbclient-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [libsmbclient-devel](/u/2009/02/libsmbclient-devel-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [libtalloc](/u/2009/02/libtalloc-1.2.0-25.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtalloc-devel](/u/2009/02/libtalloc-devel-1.2.0-25.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtdb](/u/2009/02/libtdb-1.1.1-25.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtdb-devel](/u/2009/02/libtdb-devel-1.1.1-25.fc9.i386.rpm) [samba](/u/2009/02/samba-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [source file (.src)](/u/2009/02/samba-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.src.rpm) [samba-client](/u/2009/02/samba-client-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-common](/u/2009/02/samba-common-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-debuginfo](/u/2009/02/samba-debuginfo-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-doc](/u/2009/02/samba-doc-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-domainjoin-gui](/u/2009/02/samba-domainjoin-gui-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba.spec](/u/2009/02/samba.spec) [samba-swat](/u/2009/02/samba-swat-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-winbind](/u/2009/02/samba-winbind-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-winbind-devel](/u/2009/02/samba-winbind-devel-3.2.8-0.25.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [tdb-tools](/u/2009/02/tdb-tools-1.1.1-25.fc9.i386.rpm)

There are new Fedora samba packages (3.2.7) upstream, so I’ve updated my samba packages to address the smbclient timeout issues which were causing BackupPC to fail. [libsmbclient](/u/2009/01/libsmbclient-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [libsmbclient-devel](/u/2009/01/libsmbclient-devel-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [libtalloc](/u/2009/01/libtalloc-1.2.0-23.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtalloc-devel](/u/2009/01/libtalloc-devel-1.2.0-23.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtdb](/u/2009/01/libtdb-1.1.1-23.fc9.i386.rpm) [libtdb-devel](/u/2009/01/libtdb-devel-1.1.1-23.fc9.i386.rpm) [samba](/u/2009/01/samba-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [source file (.src)](/u/2009/01/samba-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.src.rpm) [samba-client](/u/2009/01/samba-client-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-common](/u/2009/01/samba-common-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-debuginfo](/u/2009/01/samba-debuginfo-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-doc](/u/2009/01/samba-doc-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-domainjoin-gui](/u/2009/01/samba-domainjoin-gui-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba.spec](/u/2009/01/samba.spec) [samba-swat](/u/2009/01/samba-swat-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-winbind](/u/2009/01/samba-winbind-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [samba-winbind-devel](/u/2009/01/samba-winbind-devel-3.2.7-0.23.fc9.pfb.i386.rpm) [tdb-tools](/u/2009/01/tdb-tools-1.1.1-23.fc9.i386.rpm)

And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young. John Lennon, Happy Christmas (War is Over) Merry Christmas everybody :-)

[ ](/u/2008/12/20081221_110019.jpg) If you are like us and really love the idea of a white Christmas, it's been a great week with snow and ice all week culminating in 10" of snow last night - wow! It looks great, and there is a real chance that we'll be getting more snow just in time for Christmas. The girls just love running and jumping in the snow, but they are a little confused by the ice :-)

Sometimes, I just really hate Windows. Don’t get me wrong, I use a Windows laptop all day long for work and then come home and run Windows for Photoshop etc. in the evenings. It’s just that some things in the Windows environment are plain broken, take virus scanning for example - when an application attempts to read from a file, the on-demand virus scanner must block access to the file until virus scanning has been completed.

[ ](/u/2008/12/20081128_153903a-1.jpg) As if anyone could have any doubt at all that Daisy LOVES the water, here is what she was up to over Thanksgiving :-)

[ ](/u/2008/08/20070219_162201.jpg) We lost Marco on Saturday, after a year long struggle with cancer. He will be sorely missed.

[ ](/u/2008/08/happy_birthday_dove_lewis.jpg) A big thank you and happy birthday to Dove Lewis Animal Hospital who celebrated their 35th birthday today with a party in Pioneer Courthouse Square. We all headed down there to enjoy the great food and music, and the girls created some wonderful designer bags. Dove Lewis has given is great comfort and understanding in some of our most difficult times over the last few years, and we wish them all the best.