Commentary

I would just like to take the time to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

A few years ago I had to hand it to the US Army.  To a certain extent they encouraged soldiers to blog.  For a long time, they were the only branch of the Department of Defense that even had a policy on blogging.  As far as I know, the US Air Force still doesn’t have […]

I am dumbfounded at this point.  I love RSS; I love the all the news at your fingertips ability it gives you.  However, I hate RSS readers.  Every single one I’ve tried has had a feature that really turned me off to it.  I’ve tried a lot of news readers and there is always something […]

Wednesday night Aubree played in her Kindergarten program, Down on the Farm. Aubree and the other Kindergarteners did a fabulous job putting on a great show. I’m pretty damn proud of my child at this point.
However, the parents of the Kindergarteners were the ones that absolutely baffled me. I can not completely blame the parents […]

I had an epiphany this weekend while I watched my wife play an old video game on our Xbox. I was not feeling well so I thought it to be smart to law on the couch and attempt to spend time with my wife. I was not looking for sympathy. I quickly […]

I had an amazing adventure around White Sands Missile Range yesterday and decided to geotag some pictures I took there.  Being new to the whole geotagging process I initially decided the best way to do it would be with Flickr’s Map system.  That couldn’t have been further from the truth.  Out of all the places […]

I was scrolling through the latest lists of crashed sites (aka Digg) and noticed a worthy article for me to read regarding shared hosting and their tech support.  I was stunned and pretty much decided not to read the rest of the article half way through the first paragraph.  Not because I didn’t think the […]

If you’ve never heard of Gina Elise and her project Pin Ups for Vets prepare to become very informed and amazed. Gina Elise is a 24-year-old who majored in theater at UCLA. It’s not often that someone of Gina’s age gets interested in helping people. It’s even less often that someone from […]

Meryl K. Evans recently wrote an interesting article regarding negative blogging and small businesses.  In it she argues that criticism is sometimes merited and that anonymity allows the true lashing some companies deserve. But what if credibility is needed over anonymity?  What happens when your negative review of a company is to help out the […]

Two interesting tidbits this morning regarding Linus Torvalds and Microsoft allowing Vista downloads.
The first one I like the most because it is so blatantly obvious, Windows Vista “over-hyped”: Torvalds (Linux World):

With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft’s latest desktop effort is over-hyped […]