How we set up password changing in subversion

This is another computer-geek post, because I was thinking about it today, and thought it deserved to get documented. Most of my friends will not care, so...
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Katherine update

So I was discovering the tag system that livejournal has, and going through and tagging all my old posts (one of the advantages of not posting too often is that this wasn't too hard to do, though I may go back and shuffle entries around, as well as add some more tags).

Having done this, I discovered that I haven't made a Katherine post since June.

So here's an unordered list of things Katherine is doing lately:

• She corrects people. She told me a little a week or two ago when I asked her "Katie, do you want some water?", "No, daddy, it's not called [wɔtəɹ], it's called [wʊtəɹ]".
  Last night we were downstairs and on TV a local political show came on called "Issues PA 2006". She yelled at the TV "No, commercials, it's not called “issues”, it's called “tissues”". ("commercials" is her name for all TV that isn't something she wants to watch)
  
• She's started to occasionally say "Santa Claus should make me one" or "Santa Claus should bring me one" when she discovers something she doesn't have.
  For example: "Are those your new jammies, Mommy?" "No, Katie, this is my bathrobe" "Oh. Where's my bathrobe?" "You don't have one, Katie" "Santa Claus should bring me one."
  
• She's getting psyched about Halloween. She's been asking when Halloween will come since late August.
  Jennifer's mother got her a off-the-shelf costume of a dragon, which Katie has been itching to wear. (we had her put in on once to check for size) I suspect she'll be almost ready to explode from the overhype when Christmas rolls around. Having a child sensitive to the general surrounding culture hype machine isn't a good thing.
  
• She can hang from a monkeybar suspended in mid-air by herself for at least fifteen seconds.
  
• She's learning to ask for things in the polite, formal English that upper- and middle-class parents teach their kids: "May I ...", "please", "thank you", etc.
  The other day she asked me in a soft voice (she was a bit tired) "Daddy, may I have some breakfast please?" It was incredibly cute, if a bit Dickensian.

More Katherine

As I was writing my previous post, I knew I was forgetting stuff that Katherine is doing these days. I'll have to remember to post more often; in the mean time, here's two other things Katherine reminded me of this evening:

• For a while now, she's been using “dark” as an intransitive verb. As in "Daddy, it's darking!" (at dusk) and "It darked outside" (when we have gone inside before sunset and come outside after it got dark).
  Today, I pulled the plug on an electric jack-o-lantern she was holding since I didn't want her to get burned, and her reaction was "It darked out. Daddy, the pumpkin darked out. It needs new batteries."
  
  
• She's been wanting to count in different languages.
  This started a week or two ago when we were driving somewhere and I heard her saying “una, dos, tres, quatro, ...” (or close enough to that), and asked her what she was doing. “I'm counting the stars” (It was light out; this was a Dora reference). I told her she was counting in Spanish. She asked me if I could count in Spanish, and we then counted back and forth up to ten. (I'd say a number; she'd repeat it) When we got home, she said "I want to count in French." "Ok; count in French." "I don't know how. Can you count in French, Daddy?" So we did (I can get to ten, at least) and then tried German and Japanese.
  We just did Japanese tonight when I put her to bed, and she's starting to learn bits of it - she responded "shi" to my "san" and "hachi" to my "shichi".

I found my digital camera again recently, and so took a few pictures of her that I'll post either tonight or tomorrow.