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As a first time lawn-mower buyer I have some advice to pass on. If you’re going to buy a mower, make sure it has two features: 1. Self propulsion 2. A motor bigger (much bigger if possible) than 5 horsepower. I bought a Craftsman mower with a Honda engine. From my research, Honda engines are […]

I’m in the car on the way home from a business meeting in Philadelphia. One of my friends (Mark) let me borrow his 12″ 867mhz Powerbook and I’m officially sold on it. I?ve only had it for 2 days so far, but I’ve absolutely loved every minute of it. The size is perfect. I’ve used […]

My weblog sabbatical is over. In the past few weeks I’ve done the following: Started work on Maqx Software Awards which is still very much in development both conceptually and technically. I didn’t plan on linking to it yet, but it looks like it’s going to take awhile before it’s perfect. In the meantime, I […]

Work has been interesting lately. If I ever become a manager, I hope I remember the following things: 1. Don?t mention changes to employees unless you have a firm plan, and more importantly, a date for implementing them. No matter what the plans may be. 2. Talk to your employees. Especially if they have shown […]

Bloglines is down. That means instead of reading blogs, I’m writing one. A few interesting things I”ve been thinking about and coming across. Ximian is releasing their Outlook Exchange connector for Evolution as open source. Hopefully it gets ported to OSX soon. At work I use Microsoft Entourage to check my Exchange email but for […]

Just to prove that my my entire world is not things digital, check out the review I did of the Insect Skateboads Dragonfly on Silverfish Longboarding.

My job is in computer graphics, design and also involves some programming. For the past couple years, there’s been a recurring theme to conversations about what I do which has gradually grown to become something that really bothers me. Basically it comes down to this–what will I have to show for my work 20 or […]

Where else will you find at least 8 thrift stores within a 4 mile radius? How about 20 quick cash stores? Newport News, Virginia. The one and only. I love this town…

While sitting at my computer desk watching my son play the keyboard-o-rama Elmo game, I started pondering what really must go through his head. Is it possible to have complex thoughts without language? It must be; people who are born deaf and blind, like Helen Keller, obviously still have complex thoughts, but for lack of […]

I had a few things in mind that I was going to post about, here’s what they were and why I’m not going to: 1. I’m not posting about Macromedia Flex, and how I am (or was) skeptical of it’s success because of the price. Then I watched the presentation on Macromedia’s site…. maybe bigger […]