In honor of Aiden’s second birthday today and in retrospect of the hornet activity on the morning of last weekend’s birthday party, I wrote a fictional short story about a little boy who inadvertently causes an international honey shortage (among other things). It’s much longer than my usual blog post, so click...
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I’ve been reading the Watchmen comic books, since there’s a movie coming out soon. I saw the trailer during “The Dark Knight” last weekend, and had no idea who any of the characters were. Apparently, I took a hit to my geek cred because I’ve never read the series, which collectively is regarded as...
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When WordPress released version 2.6.0, I decided to wait until the next major patch before I updated our web site. I never trust the big releases; better to wait until the inevitable bugs and security flaws are patched up first. The process was relatively easy: back up your database (got a plugin that does that with one click),...
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We threw Aiden a birthday party this weekend, even though he doesn’t turn “2″ until next weekend (we had it early because next weekend is Labor Day and people might be out of town). Aiden had a sports-themed party, complete with a White Sox baseball birthday cake, a basketball hoop in the yard, and decorative...
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Netflix has a star-based ratings system that goes from one to five, one being that you hated a particular movie, and five being that you loved that movie. That sounds pretty straightforward, but it’s very subjective. I doubt that most people put a lot of thought into this. They see a good movie that kept them entertained...
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Flickr is an online photo management and sharing site. I upload a lot of our family photos in the gallery on our web site, so I had never bought into the Flickr phenomenon before. However, it turns out that I get a free Pro account because I use AT&T as my internet provider, so it was worth a look. I found that Flickr is also...
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When Aiden was born, I always called him “the boy”. It was “Where’s the boy?” or “I’ll change the boy.“ People would sometimes criticize me because I didn’t say “my son” or “our son”, but it just came out as “the boy” when I referred to...
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I haven’t thought about my stock in Playboy in quite a while, but I recently found out that it’s down below $5! I have about 30 shares from back when I used to work there. It was my first job in Chicago, and one of the benefits was a discount on company stock. It was the first time that I had even owned securities, so I...
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