Last Sunday was our 6th anniversary. I rolled out of bed around 9am and Ivy was still sleeping. The first thing that occured to me was “hey, it’s our anniversary” followed by “uh, I didn’t get a card.”
I don’t know how your mate is, but mine wants a card. She doesn’t care if anything else [...]

In the last few days I’ve gotten follow requests on twitter: one from a local coffee shop - their one and only update advertising their soup of the day, and the other from some random person with 26 mostly-personal updates and a few interacting with other users I don’t know. Since I didn’t know the [...]

I’ve been telling myself that this blog needs a fresh post and just haven’t been able to get around to it until now. That doesn’t mean I don’t care about my loyal readers (both of you), just that when put up against other activities the blog fell short of the priority.
I just got a call [...]

Testing blogging on the iPhone. The app was easy to configure and the interface is pretty intuitive.
I’m up in Fairfield this week. Working out has been a constant draw but only tonight did I actually go down and knock out 45 minutes.
Sleep now. 6am comes early.

Born and raised in southern California, I started my geek addiction early. It all started with an Apple IIc that my parents had bought for a business. Ironically they didn’t use it for work much, but I cut my teeth on BASIC programming there. I took my first typing class when I was in middle [...]

Coming home after traveling for work involves a lot more work than one would think. I certainly didn’t have this monster laundry list in mind when I got on the plane last night. The routine that takes me through the first 4 hours of the day:

grabbing a shower, shaving, and getting dressed
unpacking my laptop and [...]

My flight leaves at 8pm on Friday evening. I figure I’ll be able to grab a table a restaurant, work up my expense report, and reflect on the last 3 weeks. Maybe I’ll even have something insightful to write in this blog.

The weekend was busy but I got to spend time with Ivy, my brother Dave, and his wife Lauren. Starting with a 5am trip to O’Hare, here were the highlights:
Ivy and I got back to the hotel and she immediately crashed out until my brother and his wife showed up 5 hours later. I knew I [...]

This article on TSA’s blog was interesting because I’m finding myself in airports much more often these days. Since Saturday, if you show up at the airport without government-issued ID, you can either submit to additional screening or you won’t be allowed to fly:

We’re 48 hours into the new procedure and things have been smooth [...]

On the professional front, my computer is up and running again. It turns out at some point I had jostled a power cord and un-jostled it and re-jostled it. My power supply was fine.
On the personal, Ivy and I had decided we (mostly me) were spending way too much eating out. Cutting back to Saturdays has [...]