Since getting out of the food business in January of 2008, I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do for the next phase of my career. I applied half-heartedly for a few positions, but I never really embarked on a focused job search since I didn’t have [...]
Every time I embark on a new web design project, I am reminded of the negative impact of Microsoft Internet Explorer. As I’ve said in the past, I’m not a typical Microsoft basher, and I credit the universality of their operating systems and Office software with a large portion of the steady rise in productivity [...]
I’ve had plenty of distractions to keep me from posting here regularly for the past couple of weeks. Between dying dogs, a 4 year old in the midst of a particularly unpleasant phase, and a variety of conflicting family and volunteer responsibilities, life has been pretty hectic of late. Somehow my volunteer work for Gallop [...]
As a follow-up to My Great 30 Day Twitter Experiment, I wanted to give you an update now that I’m three weeks into the project. Am I a Twitter addict yet, or is the whole thing just as pointless as I had imagined? The answer is definitely, maybe, probably.
I’ve made it a point to post [...]
UPDATE: 6 days into my experiment and it appears that no one cares. Only 6 followers so far.
Blogging makes sense to me, but I’m not sure I really get what Twitter is all about. This blog has always been a personal reflection of my views on a wide range of issues, and when I have [...]
For a blog that is still a month and a day shy of being a year old, this one has seen more than it’s fair share of design changes. In fact, what you see today marks the seventh major redesign of this site since March 3, 2008. That doesn’t count all of the minor tweaks [...]
Even though this blog is slightly less than a year old, I couldn’t resist the urge to put together a Top 10 list of the most popular posts for 2008. The rankings are based on the number of page views each post has received throughout the year. Of the 119 items I’ve posted this year, [...]
Cooking is something I’ve enjoyed for as long as I can remember. My mother cooked out of a sense of maternal obligation, but it was obvious that she never got a moment of pleasure from it. I realized at a very early age that if I wanted something really good I was going to have [...]
Now that the election season is finally over, I would like to think that we might restore some semblance of civility to our discourse. Elections tend to bring out the worst in us, turning otherwise reasonable people into strident partisans and rabid attack dogs. Language and behavior that we would never tolerate under ordinary circumstances [...]
I’ve been suffering pangs of guilt again lately for not posting as regularly as I should. This is in spite of the fact that I have spent a great deal of time in the last few days on site upgrades. Check out the new header images if you haven’t noticed noticed. I probably spent 15 [...]