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I just have to rant on how hard it is to get on the Internet over here.  It’s nuts. You can pay tons of cash for phone access, but we’ve put on miles… sorry, kilometers… trying to find a place with a WiFi zone. Many are broken, or only have terminals. We finally found a [...]

Forgot that email posting to wordpress has to be plain text, so
reposting again (from my balcony in Rome (which is just still cool to
me))
Great flight from Phoenix to Philadelphia. Got separated in Philly
airport, which is the size of New Zealand. Marco Polo covered less
ground than we did going from Terminal B to Terminal A. These [...]

We’re headed to Italy for a little over a week, and I may need a separate suitcase just for all the freaking power cables and connectors.  iPhone, Kindle, netbook, camera, and I don’t know all what else.  It looks like a gangly plastic squid died on our kitchen table as I sort it all out [...]

This debate between the marquees for two churches, while clearly from one of those sign generators, still made me laugh.  Having friends of all religious leanings, I have no problem seeing this happening.  It’s a big image, so click through to read all the Holy Goodness.

Just cleaning up and getting this place up to Wordpress 2.6 and refreshing a few of the plugins. Once upon a time it used to be a pain to maintain web sites, then blogs came along to simplify the content management and posting.  Now blogs have become so feature rich I sometimes think we’re back [...]

It’s been a sad state of affairs that someone who perpetrates to be in as many social media tools, toys, and sites as I do had no decent picture of myself, or “avatar” to use. Partly because most pictures of me look ridiculous (in my opinion), and partly because I never got around to correcting [...]

I think I’ve finally started enough blogs to fill my drunken, insatiable need for the things.
This blog was morphing into a writing blog, but now I’ve spun up Writing Is Cake with some folks from my writing group, so all my writing nonsense is now over there.
I’m also in the process of kicking off Ignite [...]

I just finished listening to an NPR Podcast narrated by Howard Dully.  At the age of 12, Howard was the youngest person to receive an “icepick lobotomy”.  He never spoke about his surgery with his father, or his step-mother who forced it onto him.  Now, as an adult, he tries to understand what happened to [...]

ABC has an amazing article about Kevin Connolly, who was born with no legs.  He gets himself around on a modified skateboard, and with a Silver Medal in the 2007 X Games he seems more active than most people I know.
He’s also started his own photography exhibit by taking pictures of people who stare at [...]

I’ve never been a big fan of Christmas, mostly due to the way the rampant commercialism has squeezed the joy out of things. I just grit my teeth and stay away from the malls between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’ve also reached a gift truce with most people I know, which makes that last [...]