Happy Birthday Mom!
Local time, it’s not your birthday for another four hours, but I believe it is already your birthday where you are at. And what better way to celebrate then a video with the children
3 comments December 12th, 2006
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Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Photos
I posted the photo’s on flickr here. Enjoy!.
Add comment December 7th, 2006
Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Travelog: Day 5
The day began as all others have this week, with us meeting Yana in the lobby. We let her know that we had decided to adopt both Dascha and Yascha (her biological brother), but we were not yet sure about Anton. Now Yascha was not our referral. Normally, it would not be […]
3 comments December 2nd, 2006
Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Travelog: Day 4
The day was everything we had hoped it would be and more. When I have the energy, I will provide a bit more of a writeup. For now the pictures of Darya — or Dasha (the name means ‘gift’) which is her nickname will have to suffice. As to the boy, we […]
1 comment November 30th, 2006
Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Travelog: Day 3
It has been a long road to tomorrow; but now only the night separates us from our hope. Emotionally this process has been beyond anything we could have conceived. But on the eve of “our day” my heart is at peace. I am ready to meet them.
The day began with Tanya informing […]
1 comment November 29th, 2006
Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Travelog: Day 2
We woke today at 5:30am. The streets below were quiet. It was colder than the day before. But as the day matured it revealed itself to be one of sunshine. I spent most of the morning writing the travelog for day one. We ate a leisurely breakfast downstairs and made a […]
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Ekaterinburg Trip 1 Travelog: Day 1
Despite the brisk -27 degrees Celsius temperature when we arrived, I would describe Ekaterinburg as a warm city. The people are kind and friendly and are reminiscent in attitude to those I know in Upstate New York. Ekaterinburg lies on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains. It is a city rich […]
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Greetings from Ekaterinburg!
This is just a quick note for those wondering how our trip is going. After the months long wait, we have finally arrived to Ekaterinburg for our first trip. Other than the initial trauma of not getting our passports/visa until 10am of the morning we were travelling, the trip so far has been […]
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FRAMEWORK 101: Building XCF - Lesson 03 - Implementing Convention
If you have looked around this blog you know I am a fan of Ruby on Rails. In fact, for most of you, it is how you found this blog. To a large degree version 6 of XCF, the one this series of articles is about, is based on applying my lessons learned […]
4 comments November 5th, 2006
FRAMEWORK 101: Building XCF - Lesson 02 - Request Processing
In the last lesson, you built the core of our framework: the key interfaces, logging facilities, and the facade. The goal of that last lesson was to use the facade pattern to insure sub-systems would be highly decoupled from each other and the client applications that invoke them. The primary mechanism used to […]
4 comments October 12th, 2006