“My hypocrisy only goes so far”

I'm your huckleberry...

Gateway Drug

Conversation I literally just had with a co-worker. Co-Worker: My wife says you're a bad influence. Me: What? Why? Co-Worker: Because I never used to say "Douche-Bag" before I met you, now I say it all the time. Me: That's not my fault, (Other Co-Worker) sits closer...

read more

WordPress Intranet

Since I made the suggestion a couple years ago for my company to use WordPress internally for it's major websites, they've loved every minute of it. In fact, I actually saved the company over $40,000 in license fees to a 3rd party CMS that they had been paying...

read more

The Good Old Days

You know what I want? I want music software to be the way it was in the 1990's. I want this: Instead, I have this bloated, full of shit, piece of festering software monstrosity that looks something like this: I have YEARS worth of music. I can't physically load that...

read more

The little things

I'm in charge of getting a new "employee database" system online at work that interfaces with my redesign of our intranet. I'm doing the entire thing in WordPress, and I chose "Connections" as my contacts manager, mostly because it supports huge CSV file imports,...

read more

I have no idea

I seriously don't even know why I watch TV any more. 90% of it is crap and the 10% I enjoy usually gets cancelled. Syfy channel, really? You show wrestling! Honestly, what were you thinking? Stargate Universe, cancelled. Southland, cancelled. Walking Dead, mini-series...

read more

Budget Conscience

Having a baby drastically changes both your free time and your budget. So much so that I'm actively evaluating what games to purchase this year far in advance of their actual arrival. Battlefield 3 for example, is not only an instant purchase, but also something worth...

read more

Goodbye Netflix

I thought I would feel more sadness, instead I'm actually kinda pleased. As nearly a 10 year member of Netflix, it's been my sole source for DVDs for quite some time. Unfortunately for Netflix, I have far better things to do with my money than wait 4-6 weeks for new...

read more

Actually

A "Photo of the Day" isn't a terribly bad idea. Doing web pages for so long has rendered me rather stale in the photographic motivation department. Maybe it would be a good exercise for my creativity. Hmmm...

read more

Slightly More Functional

I do believe we've left the "no-sleep" section of our parenting experience, and we've now upgraded to "limited sleep", which is incredible. I had previously gone without sleep (24+ hours) only a couple times in my life, and I'm glad that hopefully I won't have to do...

read more