An explanation is overdue. I am still alive and well. Nothing's changed in my life - married, two dogs, still consulting and traveling a lot all over the country. I have several other web-based projects of my own and I am supporting various others. They come and go ( Read more... )

This is so freakin' cool I can't hardly stand it. You have to see it to really get it. And don't forget to watch the demo video.
Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away. It’ ( Read more... )

Scott Adams wrote about tipping and doormen and valets in his Dilbert blog. It sparked a ton of comments from readers, as you'd expect. Tipping is somehow a controversial subject, I guess. I am a generous tipper, by nature. And I travel a lot and eat out a lot, so I get plenty of opportunity to practice. I've experienced the same kinds of ( Read more... )

This is SO wrong. There are certain fretting adults who think people in general, but children in particular, must be protected from life itself, lest anything at all ever hurt them or not go their way. In other words, we'd better keep children safe from childhood.
Some traditional childhood games are disappearing from school playgrounds because ( Read more... )

This is from the U.K. While I've not taken Latin, myself, I have friends who learned it in school and, to a person, they have no regrets. They all say it helped them a lot.

Regardless of subject, however, I generally object to teachers discouraging students because they think it's "too hard".

Education experts raised fears over the future of ( Read more... )

Really interesting Q&A with a someone who studies trends and marketing among young people (teens). She's got insight on why MySpace became so popular (which isn't really any big secret), how young people view trends, fads and fashion, marketing mistakes, what's important now and what will be important tomorrow. I love stuff like this.

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I don't know why, but I really want one of these.


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This is the funniest thing I've seen all month. It's The Ten Commandments remixed into a trailer for a modern teen comedy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs

Completely anonymous. I'm just curious. I saw this at violetdaisies


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I took one of our dogs to the vet today so they could draw blood to do heartworm and thyroid check-ups - it's that time of year, time to start the monthly heartworm pills. Hard to believe there's some kind of weather system coming in tonight. Today is an absolutely perfectly impossibly beautiful day here in Denver - at noon it was only mid-70s°F, ( Read more... )