Outside the Rat Race

I thought I would share my initial thoughts on Google+ along with the rest of the web. If you don't know what it is, here's a intro...

For the fun of it, I tried copy & pasting my iTunes library into Excel. In wonderful delight, I found that it sort of worked. Well, I co...

Email is the bane of many people's lives. Not because it's inherently bad, but because inboxes tend to get overwhelmingly filled in ...

Jessi and I have been working hard the last few weeks (OK, the last month) fixing up the other side of our duplex. Our previous tenants deci...

I started this blog in October of 2006 with 9 whole posts. 6 in November 0 in December (yikes!) and 2 in January Since then I became sl...

One of the joys of having a smart dog is that he's able to figure out how to do things pretty fast. Of course, it's also a bad thing...

Since I work for a technology company (read computers & printers), I get asked 2 questions all the time. 1) "My printer is broken...

Meet Vinnie, the newest member of our family. We picked him up on Friday so we got to kick things off with a long weekend. He's a short...

Jessi and I had new windows installed on the tenant's side of our duplex this week. Originally there were windows that looked to be at ...

I've been fascinated by Google's Chromebooks . They are essentially a computer with nothing but the browser. Since it's only a b...

This last weekend Jessi and I got to participate in my best friend's wedding in Columbus, OH. It was inside the Franklin Park Conservato...

Mark Speckman was my college football coach at Willamette University. Two characteristics about Coach stand out to me: First, he was hila...

Yesterday I tried to install Hellcats - Across the Pacific on my computer, and failed miserably. Let me explain. It all started with a tr...

I thought for this month's update I would give the recap primarily in pictures. I'm also going to cheat and start with our Mexico tr...

I love a good story. Who doesn't? If anything, the success of the entertainment world, and even news, shows that everyone loves a good s...

Jessi and I participated in the inaugural Corvallis half-marathon this month. I saw the published results and thought something cool could b...

I'm currently sitting in India while I write this - it's pretty exciting and I have many stories to share. At the very least, I wo...

Last weekend Jessi and I visited a friend to look at some bikes he was trying to get rid of. While there we saw his dog door, which he said ...

This last week I got to go the Bay Area for work. As such, I got to hang out with my family for a bit. It was great seeing all of them in p...