I’m taking a side-step from my usual “tech” posts to write about the “dad” side. This is a strange situation that I’m trying to understand. Here is the scene: my oldest daughter is invited to a birthday party with “Jenny” that has a start time of 5:30 and going to either 10:30pm or overnight (for [...]

The great Web2.0 company, NetVibes, that I have been using for some time now as my homepage for ALL of my computers has released a really great new theme called Coriander. It brings the look & feel to a more Web2.0 feel (e.g., rounded corners & “shiny colors”) but also adds some nice functionality like [...]

I just found a great new way to post to my blog, via a service called IMified. This is my first post using this service. I will probably research it some more and then write a bit more information about how to use this service. This is handy if you are on the road or [...]

This is really a nicely designed theme. It has a series of built in Sidebar widgets, clean implementations of style guides and all sorts of nice eye candy.
It also has built in paragraph classes for specific tags.
The site is located here. It seems to have quite a following. I’m slowly starting to get some of [...]

I found a great theme for my blog (as you can probably see if you aren’t just reading the feed). So, I’m in the process of updating plugin and other items within it. Hang in there, beautification is in process!

Daylight Saving Time is changing this year, due to some decisions made in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is one month and begins for most of the United States at:
2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March
to
2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November
Daylight Saving is supposed [...]

The origins of the phrase “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” may not be truly known, the phrase, on the other hand is. Wikipedia has a small write-up of the expression and its various possible origins. On a trip to Lake Tahoe last year, my wife and I took the opportunity to [...]