phatness.com - still kickin

I have an iPhone. I have had one since the first hour it went on sale. My wife stood inline on the day of the launch a week before our wedding. Yeah, I'm a lucky guy. :)

In my eyes there is nothing out there that comes close.

BUT.

That's a big BUT.

Driving me nuts.

If you are a developer on OS X and you are customer of JetBrains using IDEA the Java IDE, it is a cloudy year for you!

There are two critical bugs that haven't been fixed in over 6 months since being reported to JetBrains. IDEA enabled my fulltime switch to OS X and now it is unusable after 4 - 5 open files or half a work day. Whichever comes first.

Check it out:

If you have ever had a drink with me, (and especially since David was born, that is a lot of you...) then you probably have heard me talk about Tequila. Well, now you can get crib notes and skip listening to my lecture. Check out this website:

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2008/06/19/what-is-good-tequila/

Please welcome to the world, my son, Michael David Wille. Call him David.

He was born on May 28th at 7:32 am. Mom and David are doing great.

It goes without argument that marriage is in a sorry state these days. It is said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. Many of those within their first 5 years. I do not have much of an opinion on divorce as I haven't been through one yet, either my own marriage, or my parents.

I'm more concerned about marriage now after watching just a few episodes of reality TV. Apparently, our country is filled with a bunch of blundering sex crazed idiots who can't form a proper sentence and are more obsessed with how someone else "disrespected them" than leading a productive life. While there are many factors in life that contribute to someone's social development (nature versus nurture) you cannot deny the importance of the core family unit. A huge factor in one's family is marriage. As I was just married, it is fresh topic for me. I want to offer a few observations I have.

But first, I can't talk about the subject of marriage without first having a little side glance at a heated topic within our society. Take a look at this: marriage or civil union?

After reading that, realize that I am not an extreme left or right radical. I'm somewhere in between and like to think logically.

Now, to the meat and potatoes. I offer up anecdotal evidence that I have not seen referenced in print, television, or web before.

As part of my wife's pregnancy, we took a child birthing class and breast feeding class at our local hospital. The child birth classes were three hours long, once a week, for four weeks. This class covered all sorts of topics ranging from the end of your pregnancy up until your baby is one year old. In the past it was referred to as Lamaze class. It is something that all new parents should take. The breast feeding class was only one night and it was also three hours long. Scheduling had it so the breast feeding class was several weeks after our child birth classes finished.