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The boys had their first experience with Pinewood Derby, and despite not having the fastest cars on the track, they definitely had some of the most stylish. Robby placed 2nd in his den for design, Ricky placed 3rd. 🙂 Not bad for a first year!

President Obama re-took the oath of office yesterday, due to an “abundance of caution” (per new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs). I have an idea for Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media: Barack should take the oath of office every day and put it on YouTube. Think about it – you…

My old friend Hiram Wurf has an absolutely awesome Google Map showing which projects around the country are “shovel ready” once the infrastructure stimulus bill passes. First, the map: [googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107575130705572889675.0004609079503aa5310a6&source=embed&s=AARTsJocI7KNWXN29IElMu0AkVnCDNTOhg&ll=41.967659,-97.119141&spn=45.474974,74.707031&z=3&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Just a great example of how to use a Google tool to organize a set of data. Hiram used My Maps to build the…

In June, 2004, I posted the lyrics to “Become America” by The Call. It remains a favorite of mine – I think Michael Been does a wonderful job of capturing the mixture of patriotism and frustration that I felt throughout much of President Bush’s term. Thanks to the iLike gadget, I added a clip of…

We are one. Yes we can. Hope. In a campaign known for its slogans, I find it hard to reduce my thoughts about President Obama inauguration to a few words. But if I had to choose, I’d have to start with my kids. I suppose it was inevitable that I would look at my children’s…

A couple weeks ago, Robin and I took a look at some of our bills and realized we were over-paying for several of our basics. We had TV and Internet through Comcast, and phone service with AT&T. By bringing the phone over to Comcast, we cut our monthly costs for the three services in half.…

I mentioned last night that you should “join” my site using FriendConnect, Google’s service for adding social tools to sites. What I’ve enjoyed so far about FriendConnect is the way in which it makes public the individuals who hang out here. I don’t have a huge audience, but those who do hang out tend to…

I’m going to start playing around with my FriendConnect-enabled page, so if you haven’t already, head to the site and join up.

One of the hardest things to hear from a friend is that they’ve lost their job. Doesn’t matter if it’s a lay-off, a personality conflict with the CEO, a start-up changing directions… I’ve lost count at the number of close friends who are either actively looking for a job or giving serious thought to changing…

Just downloaded “a-blogger” from the android market, an early Blogger client for Android.No label support, doesn’t look look like text auto-correct or images are supported either. More soon.