I just wanted to put out there how proud I am of my wife. She is an amazing woman! First, her work ethic is unparalleled. I do not know a single soul who works half-as-hard as she does. Second, she is an amazing elementary education teacher. She integrates technology into [...]
Guess who I just got off the phone with? Well, if you read my blog, and read my last post, I bet you can take a good guess. At 20:23 pm, just 1 hour ago, I got off the phone with Rob Bishop, my congressional representative.
First off, I would like to thank Congressman [...]
I’m 3 days behind in pushing out this news, however, after getting my daily dose of Technorati, and seeing all the posts about Movable Type going GPL with version 4, I had to comment.
First off, I am excited to see Movable Type get back on its feet with respect to the community. It’s history [...]
The people over at commoncraft.com have whipped up a video for explaining RSS in plain English. Although I am already familiar with the technology, and even the differences between Atom and RSS, I still enjoyed the video. I could find this handy to show to my parents or siblings, as when I try [...]
Ok. Now that I have the official word on not getting hired by Google, I’m opening the Can ‘O Worms. Yes, I almost took a job with Google, and no, I wasn’t job hunting. Let me tell the story.
It’s a quiet day. I’m sitting in front of Hercules (R.I.P.), my faithful [...]
I just received an email from a concerned reader about the theme of my blog. With the utmost respect, I am posting the body of the email text here, then the justification of why I chose an overall dark theme for my blog. I am not posting this to embarrass the person [...]
Ok. Time for a game. Because I’m starting the game, I’m going to set the rules.
This is a blogging tag game, where, if tagged in a blog post, you must post as well. In your blog post, you must provide a trackback ping to the post that tagged you (a permalink to [...]
There have been a couple changes lately in my professional life, namely becoming an Ubuntu member, and now, joining the EFF. Both are important to me, and both are helping guide many decisions in my personal life. You may have noticed the EFF badge at the right in the sidebar. Well, that’s [...]
For those of you running Wordpress on your own server, or a server that you maintain, I wrote a little script that may make upgrading your Wordpress a bit easier. For me, I am running 4 installations of Wordpress, so, when the upgrades are released, it’s a bit of a pain to get them [...]
