Outside the Rat Race

Jessi and I have spent the last week in California hanging out with my family and it's been a lot of fun. We came down on Friday to watc...

My affection is rooted in the device's versatility. You can do so much on such a small device it's amazing. Let me give you this mor...

Yep, it's getting pretty official. We just picked up our wedding rings and it's fairly exciting. For me, it really hit home that we...

I would do 5 things: 1) Real Email Email within Facebook is nice, but I should be able to get email outside of Facebook. As a matter of fact...

I'm sure this concept has been around for a while, but I saw it for the first time today and really liked it. The premise is that projec...

This last week has been fairly busy for me. I've been working pretty hard at HP trying to get some work done. I must say, working hard, ...

I have been struggling recently with the concept of titles defining who I am. For example, am I a teacher, or do I just happen to be teachi...

OK, I have to love on Google just a little bit. Even though gmail has been loading very slowly lately and taking its time to send emails. Ev...

Back by popular demand, a Lego update. I've got to be honest, Jessi and I struggled with this phase. The weird part was the angle. Even ...

On September 20th, 1995 (I was 12) Scoter came into my life. This evening, April 20th, 2008 he has passed away. Scoter (pronounced Scooter, ...

Recently a friend let me borrow a book from him and it has really got me thinking. The book is called "Learning XML" by Erik T. Ra...

My mom and sister came up to visit and my sister made a shirt in my print shop (aka my bedroom). I don't know if I've ever shared an...

Sometimes it's fun to change things up and these last two weeks have definitely been different for me. You see, for these last two weeks...

So we've been making progress on our Eiffel Tower. The Lego set comes in three parts so that, I'm guessing, it can be easily stored....

Jessi and I got a new toy. We're going to be going to Paris for our honeymoon, so we thought it would be fun to build the Eiffel Tower o...

This week Jessi and I saw the movie Horton Hears a Who and let me tell you, it is a good movie. This movie is an absolute must see film. Ev...

Sunday was a good day. I woke up early and headed out to my local Fred Meyers. It seems that the only place to buy anything electronic, that...

Here comes the list: 4 Things I'm excited about!!! I just purchased a new monitor from HP - ah... the employee discount is nice... It...

I found a new program the other day and so far it's earned my seal of approval. It's called ObjectDock, by Statdock. You know that b...

I've recently been doing a lot of research on making a web crawler and it's fairly interesting. Basically, a web crawler is a progra...