Thanksgiving

This year I’m thankful for a lot of things. It’s been an eventful and exciting year. At the top of the list, I am thankful that I had the opportunity to serve my country in an endeavour to free the Iraqi people from tyrannical dictator who was a threat to world peace. There have been … Read more

Balanced Reporting?

Do you wonder how it could be that a United States Marine would shoot and kill a wounded, unarmed man in a Mosque in Fallujah? Well, maybe this will help. The following is a quote from this article in the San Jose Mercury News. I strongly recommend that you read the article. Lance Corporal Ailes … Read more

Life in OIF

I had a long email conversation with a gentleman from Des Moines, Iowa who is getting ready to go over to Kuwait. A reservist like me, he was looking for information about take he should take, what is useful, what is necessary, what is useless. As a result of that conversation I decided to create … Read more

Back to Work…

Tomorrow I go back to my civilian job in Silly Cone Valley. I wish I could say I was happy to be going back. I’m really feeling pretty depressed. I would really like to remain involved in the efforts in Iraq. As I have mentioned many times in this weblog, I believe in what we’re … Read more

I’m really home

The Hawai`i vacation is over. I’m home. I have about ten days off and then I go back to Apple and resume my life as if nothing happened. The last ten months have changed, at the very least, my outlook on life. Now to the task of getting on with life. It’s hard for me … Read more

Photo Mosaics…

How-To: Make your own photo mosaics – Engadget – www.engadget.com This is pretty cool. I’ll never have any time to mess with it but it is pretty cool. Aloha

Major Remodeling In Progress

I upgraded to the new version of Movable Type as I explained yesterday. Today I plied my recently develop skills in CSS and XHTML crafting and redesigned the layout of the weblog. I have not gotten to the comment windows yet so they are likely unusable. I’m hoping to fix that tomorrow. I got some … Read more

Movable Type Upgrade

I have successfully upgraded my blog software. Woo hoo! I looked around at the current blog software offerings thinking I might replace Movable Type with something from the Open Source/GPL arena. I like Blosxom quite a bit but it is not quite as sophisticated in terms of user management as I want. A lot of … Read more