Year: 2006

I have thought a lot recently about the dangers of viewing the world as black and white. One thing is right, one thing is wrong. There can be such a rigid interpretation of this way of thinking that legalism, and even hatred and violence completely take over. People take sides, and create battle lines. Wars…

I have read a few articles expressing disdain for the modern day Olympics, with the overwhelming influence of professional athletes. “The Olympics is for amateurs!” they say. I think I slightly agree. I don’t think that people who do these sports as a profession should be excluded from the competition completely. I actually like that…

Just saw this come across my news feeds: Macworld: Podcasts: Macworld Podcast #29: Examining Leap-A (it’s a podcast about the more well known of the three malware issues that surfaced this week affecting the Mac OS)

If you read news online, chances are you have heard about the nasty streak of viruses hurled at the Mac platform this week. It’s terrifying! It’s catastrophic! No one is safe anymore!!! Or, not. Really, they were very small malware scripts that do mostly nothing. That’s my summary. I found this article today, which I…

Just an update… I spent a few hours last night compiling more stuff for the book to be released early this year. (Question: at what point does it no longer qualify as “early” this year?) 🙂 I am really enjoying putting this together. There is a lot of great stuff that I was thinking through…

Today is February 20th. 20 years ago today, our niece (the first of her kind in Jen’s family, being the first child of Jen’s oldest brother) was born. That’s a good long time ago. But, imagine this… 32 years ago today, two of our other friends were born – in different, unrelated places. Yes, that…

If you’ve seen Jen lately, you have wondered that very thing. After a double take, or two (wait, would that be a triple take?) you compose yourself and realize that whenever it is, it’s quite soon… 🙂 The actual due date (3/17) is fast approaching, so, we have once again created a little page for…

I’m pretty sure that I was dreaming this morning just before I woke up that I dreamt I was dreaming. Is that possible?

“I’m Popeye The Sailor Man! Toot Toot!” I used to watch that cartoon, and I even watched the movie with Robin Williams in it a time or two. (Should I be admitting that?) 🙂 And I do recall, Popeye in his familiar sailor speak (or whatever that was) saying one of his famous lines, “I…

There was an article on the web today suggesting (for real, I think) that Apple is moving toward dropping their OS, and using a version of Windows on their machines?!?! That’s the craziest thing I have ever heard. I think it really is. The article has had too many hits, and so is down currently,…