I figure if the baby wants Italian beef, a Big Mac, frozen pizza, pineapple sorbet, and homemade ravioli, the baby would want to post something on my website and, in turn, on Facebook. While I understand the food thing ... something tells me that a fetus is incapable of typing.

On to more nerdy stuff ... passing physical disks through to virtual machines is freaking fantastic. That whole I/O bottleneck thing is much, much easier to manage. I ran up a virtual SQL server recently and threw a couple of physical RAIDs at it (a two-disk RAID 1 and a 5-disk RAID 5). Before this setup, the SQL server was a physical machine with a two-disk RAID 1 and a 4-disk RAID 10. Yes, the RAID 5 is slower than the 10, but overall the performance of the virtual SQL server is only slightly slower. That's saying a lot, because the physical had 8 Hyper-Threaded cores (looked like 16 to the OS) and 72GB of RAM; the virtual has 4 cores and 32GB.

Toning down the geek ... Daisy is being hilarious right now. Julie's sitting on the sofa drinking water, and Daisy appears to have dropped something in the cushion on the end. She's digging in there and sticking her behind in Julie's face. Everybody knows a dog's ass is a biological weapon.