Yes, boys and girls, I just got back from a MONSTER TRUCK SHOW! (Who'dve thunk it?!) Christopher — my 5-year-old son — thinks Monster Trucks are downright cool, and there was a show tonight at the fairground. So Christopher, Emily (who's 7) and I went out to see what these things are all about. I [...]
The ridiculous ruling of the 9th district court of appeals (that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional) made me bristle. Maybe it's just me, but I always understood that the “separation of church and state” provision of the Constitution (well, actually the Bill of Rights) was intended to prevent the government from creating an official [...]
Oh man, this is funny! (With thanks to Dean Peters)
Uggh. As you probably know, I own an ISP in Atlanta. We're a little company (about 250 customers), so we rely on reseller arrangements with bigger companies to offer certain services to our customers. We do our own dialup and web hosting, but it simply doesn't make sense financially for us to roll our own [...]
It's funny how difficult it is sometimes to come up with a topic. Sometimes, they just pop up and you can't help but write something. More often than not, it's just the process of sitting down and pounding something out that leads to a topic. Today, expect the latter rather than the former. It's been [...]
Every now and then, a company will bowl me over with good service. Sadly, nowadays it happens very seldom. Hyroops Big & Tall men's store did it the other day. Here's the story: I'm a big guy. 6'6″ and over 250 lbs. It's hard to find a suit to fit me. But I found myself [...]
Lands' End is so cool. They've got a link on every page of their website — “Ask a real person”. Click on it, plug in your phone number, and they'll call you while you're browsing and answer any questions you have. I love this store. Too bad Sears bought 'em…I fear that they'll hose it [...]
Toying with tools to make blogging simpler. First, I installed w.bloggar, but every time I tried to initialize it, it would fail with a java.lang.NullPointerException. So I downloaded blogBuddy, and it initialized everything OK (and even found my Blog on Blogger.com), but when I try to Post and Publish, I get the same error message. [...]
Everybody (well, not everybody, but most of us that play on the web for a living) understands that one of the spammers favorite sources of email is…you guessed it…web pages. They have scads of little "spambots" that crawl webpages looking for anything that might be an email address. When they find it, they dutifully pass [...]
Slick! I'm wading deeper and deeper into Movable Type. At this point, I'm about 85% certain that I will buy a commercial license and use it to manage the next version of Atl-Connect's website. The template capabilities are amazing, and the ability to use categories on each post makes it a breeze to include highlights [...]