My allergies have arrived with a Vengeance. (capital V) My eyes are itchy, my nose is running and plugged up and my head feels like a water balloon. Not fun. Not fun. Our friend Mark mentioned to me that they have injections that might help. I need to do something.…

Rules for a great web application: (in no particular order) Use CSS. Try as hard as you can to eliminate all presentation specific information from your html. Abstract the presentation layer! Use DOM. Try as hard as you can to eliminate all client side interactivity from your html. Abstract the…

Something is inside my body making me feel ill. I barely have an appetite. Yesterday I felt like I was going to pass out. Dizzy spells. Body shakes. I want this to go away. Yesterday, I got my new firewall. The Sonicwall Tele3 was pissing me off. First of all,…

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mom put there. Especially to the mother and grandmothers of my children. New Pictures on http:pictures.kokopop.com. Check it out. Still using Jalbum; it kicks butt. New version 5.2 is much faster than 5.1. Great product and FREE. Gotta love it. House is on the…

Last night Jared spiked a fever of 105 degrees. And more importantly, we woke me up. Come on, can’t this kid have some compassion for my nerves!? (Inside joke for everyone who saw Pride & Prejudice.) Also, Matt can not seem to sleep in the same bed as Katie. I…

At work, We started using Sharepoint. I like it alot. Some things are not as elegant as in Hotkoko, specifically the navigation and the ability to know where you are. Also, the permissions are not clear. Otherwise it has some kickass features. I love the integration with MS Office. Checking…

Over the past year, Penny and Jim have taken Ethan and Jared on one fantastic adventure after another. The zoo, the Exploratorium, Lawrence Hall of Science, and more. But where are the pictures of this fantastic voyage? Where are the blogs to read years from now that tell Ethan and…

Danny is flying in tonight. Darcie and Clare are visiting. The weather is nice, except the pollen count must be sky high. I took a clariten and my head STILL feels swollen and my nose keeps running. It makes everything feel horrible. One of Katie’s theories is that physical discomfort…

I am spending all day reinstalling my software on my computer at work. This used to be fun, but doesn’t feel fun today. I guess I just have so much to do and so little time. Other than my PC, work is fun. I am enjoying it tremendously. Product Management…

So much to do. 5 days until the house goes on the market. We need to clean clean clean. Pack and clean, clean and pack. I am excited and nervous. Last time our broker messed up the negotiations and we lost 10-15k. I hope this time our broker doesn’t screw…

I have been trying to get Ethan and Jared to play together, but it is hard. Ethan wants to play with older kids and his friends and Jared is as obstinate as another “brother” I can think of. I tried using some uber-threat techniques on Jared and it backfired. He…

In 1995/1996 I used to blog on a site I maintained (by hand) called Commadot.com. For some reason, I didn’t keep any of the posts, and I didn’t even save the domain. Then I noticed someone registered the domain. Well guess what? It’s available again and I just bought it…

Bavarian, Joseph Ratzinger, was elected Pope Benedict XVI. He should not be confused with John Ratzenberger, also known as Cliff from Cheers. On second thought, please DO confuse them. In fact, lets call him Pope Cliff. In private, do the new Pope’s friends call him Joey? The new pope is…

I finished “From Beirut to Jerusalem“. Good book. It was well written and gave insightful analysis into the Middle East. I appreciate the current situation in the middle east more now. The withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon makes more sense. I also think the results of that withdrawal may be…