Henry Freeman Atkinson arrived around 6:40AM this morning! Both he and Vicky are well and happy. Henry was early, so they are keeping him in the nursery for a day, perhaps two. He was 5 pounds 11 ounces. I think they said 22 inches. Although he was early, his body seems mature. He’s eaten twice: once from a bottle and once from breast milk.
Vicky called to say that she’s at 5cm and her bag is bulging. Contractions are about every 1.5 minutes. I’m heading back to the hospital after getting about 3 hours sleep. I don’t think Vicky got any sleep. Just waiting for Bob to arrive to look after Tre.
My wife, Vicky, went into labor today. We were up and headed to the hospital around 7AM this morning and waited out the whole day. Tre, my first son, bounced between his uncle Gene and best friends Bob and Tina today. Now I’m home for the night to be with him. Vicky’s still in the hospital, resting.
The technical details: Vicky’s having contractions about every 3 minutes. She’s at 4cm. It has been that way since about 4PM today (July 4th). We’re at 34 weeks, so it’s a bit early, but not too early. They don’t stop labor once you get to the 34th week. But they also aren’t encouraging it. There’s some chance that the new baby will need oxygen, but otherwise there aren’t big risks associated with being premature.
We’re just resting tonight. They may give Vicky a sleeping pill so she can sleep. Hopefully I can get some rest here at home. (It seems like the neighbors aren’t doing their bottle rocket marathon this year.)
Tre had a nice talk with his mom over the phone tonight. He’s been a very good boy all day, I’m told. He actually had a lot of fun going to a parade, Nancy Boyd Park and a BBQ at Becky’s and Keith’s.
Bob has been very, very nice to watch Tre for us, offering to stay the night over here. Luckily we’re getting this short rest before the big battle tomorrow.
I’ll update things as I can.
Steve Gillmor likes to talk about MS Office being dead. I’m ready to say OS X is dead, shambling dead, but still dead. Once the Mac hardware switch to Intel, it’s just too easy to run Windows. In the end, dual-booters will find themselves hanging out in Windows more often than not. The story will be, “I like the look of Apples and I need reliable hardware for this messed up Microsoft OS.” Nevermind that Apple has had a series of hardware goofs in the past year.
Check out this story about how a Microsofty ran presentation about Vista and Office 7 using Vista running on a Mac laptop. Then check out Cory Doctorow’s annoucement that he’s switching to Ubuntu. Cory admits to being an Apple fanboy. When people like him publicly switch, it tends to inspire a lot of people. And it usually means that the smartest people already connected the dots a year before.
I’ve recently switched my desktop machine at work to Ubuntu after running Dapper on a little Dell laptop for four or five months. After I figured out that I could run Meeting Maker under WINE, I only had to wait for client work to ease off to make the switch. Nearly everything just works. I have an ATI video card, which is less convenicent than one from nVidia. nVidia play nicely with the open source crowd. Anyway, it’s a minor annoyance and kind of fun to play around with.
I read on Slashdot that CMP trademarked the term ‘Web 2.0’ and promptly started suing people who use the term in association with their conferences. CMP and O’Reilly started the Web 2.0 meme, I believe, with their conference of the same name. It’s become clear that the term in fact has zero meaning. It’s an interesting exercise to ask several people what they think it means. The best consensus you’ll find is it means “cool” or “modern”.
I was already tired of the term, and now I have a good reason to refuse to use it any more. I just removed all of the web2.0 del.icio.us tags I had and replaced them with tags I wouldn’t be embarrassed to see a couple years from now.