This article at Slashdot crystallized why blogs have re-energized the Web for me. Before the general public had access to the Internet, I was a BBS nerd. I never ran my own, but I spent a lot of time dialing in to BBS’ in Atlanta. I was a paid member o…
Babysitter sick
Quiet dinner with wife out
Dinner with kids in
In his new book, Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow has created a world where people never die, they just backup their consciousness to the Net and then download later into a new and improved clone. Nanotechnology has eliminated the con…
Back in 1996 at Homecom we were preaching the 3 C’s of web design to our clients. Every site had to focus on Content, Community, and Commerce. And of course, they needed to pay us big bucks to make sure it was done right.
Take a look at your typical we…
Delaney is 7 today. Halfway to being a teenager. Hopefully when she is 14 she’ll remember her 7th birthday and have some mercy on us! Delaney is obsessed with horses. Horse books, horse toys, everything revolves around horses. So, for her birthday, we …
One of my goals for this year is to read more, a lot more. I’m off to a good start, having knocked off 3 books since Christmas.
Leadership – Rudy Giuliana: A nice satisfying tour of Mayor Giuilana’s career, organized around his management principles. N…
Yeah, so its a little contrived. He’s a knight, he gets a little leeway. The double CD serves as a nice greatest hits live compilation of his career.
Another one of those bands I never would have found without the Web and MP3’s. I can’t remember how I found my way to their web site, , but I was instantly hooked after a few sample downloads. It’s Irish folk with a pop sensability and just enough trad…
You’ll laugh, you’ll laugh so hard that you will start to cry, then your eyes will tear up and you’ll have to put the book down for a moment to get your composure. You know how good Lileks is on a good day. He wrote his book over the course of many goo…
Well, maybe it wasn’t quite a miracle, but I am pretty damn proud of myself for what I pulled off as Michelle’s Christmas present this year.
I used ULead DVD Slideshow to create a retrospective of our 15 years together. This was not as easy as it sound…
