Where Are The Wise Men?

I really enjoy having my iPod on while I work. I have ecliptic music tastes (my wife says “random” but whatever). I actually don’t mind having songs go from Chris Rice to The Faint and then to Tom T. Hall. No, really, that’s just fine with me.

The problem was getting the right [...]

The Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb is truly a swash-buckling fantasy of epic proportions. Robin takes fantasy in a new direction with a nautical/pirate theme and she pulls it off well.

The trilogy centers around the Vestrit family of Bingtown, a trading city on the edge of a great social change. Bingtown society [...]

Gina tagged me to name six strange things about myself. So here it goes:

My favorite genres of novels: Fantasy (George R.R. Martin, Tolkien) and literary fiction (John Irving and Richard Russo).  Usually those two worlds never collide.
I’m quite an adventurous eater.  I’ve ate kangaroo, [...]

If you have a password on the web or in a document on your hard drive, then you should read Bruce Schneier’s “Choosing Secure Passwords”.  I’m a fan of a Password Safe like he talks about in the article. Of course, you need to keep that safe, well, safe.  But it’s interesting that no amount [...]

A few pictures from our Christmas 2007 extravaganza, when Princess Leah ruled her kingdom from her pink throne.

Some, but not all, have been posted on Gina’s blog.

I discovered GeoToad this weekend.  I haven’t messed with too much, but I already like it.

It’s written in Ruby, so it will run everywhere natively (i.e without Cygwin or a Unix environment).  I’ve been having problems with the geo-* tools that I have raved about before.  They assume that you are using GNU tools and [...]

I was looking at my FeedBurner stats for the first time in a while yesterday and noted that there was a new option — Subscriber Metrics.  I thought it had been active for a while but they just announced it today.  So it’s been gathering stats for 24 hours — what have I learned?

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I took the day off because Leah got tubes in her ears today.  As Gina said, everything went fine.

Gina left to take a nap and Leah woke up and asked, “Where did Mommy go?”  I said she’s taking a nap and then Leah fell back to sleep.

Gina and I were both impressed with Omaha’s [...]