Sophia has a dress-up box that Amy’s been filling up slowly but surely over the last year or so. There’s the tu-tu and the fuzzy bracelet and the kimono. And then there’s the stripey Cat-in-the-Hat hat and clown nose, both of which Sophia decided to dress me in today. [...]

I’m a techie kind of guy, but I’m not an early adopter. Pretty much every piece of technology in our house was bought a year or two after it’s initial release. The reason? I don’t trust new stuff and hate being a beta tester for something I paid money for. So [...]

Every parent knows that the toy box (or basket in our case) is often times more fun than the toys inside. Throw an imaginative kid in and the thing becomes a rollercoaster, a racecar, or a fort. Knowing this, I threw our daughter into her toy basket and proceeded to watch her [...]

The question on Digg went:
“How would you explain to a 50 year-old computer noob why the Microsoft wireless photo keyboard that he saw stacked in PC World does not work on his Ubuntu machine? What happens when a piece of hardware breaks?”
When I installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop I told her that [...]

I didn’t think this one through, actually. I’ve used Debian for years and knew I wanted to use something based on it. I don’t like the look of KDE much. I wanted a LiveCD so I could test things. Ummm… that leaves me with Ubuntu.
My business partner, Christoph, uses [...]

Nope. The conversation about Ubuntu went something like this:
Me: So how was your trip to Kauai?
Mom: Great! We got the condo looking nice and ready to rent. But while I was there my laptop died.
Me: Oh ya? Lame. What happened?
Mom: It just wouldn’t start. I ended up taking [...]

Most people who know me would agree that I’m a Microsoft guy. I love my X-Box. I love Windows XP. SQL Server’s client tools are worth using and Visual Studio is surprisingly powerful. My previous business was an all Microsoft shop. So how in the world did I become [...]

Isn’t Shooting the Kids about digital photography for the baby set? You bet. The thing is, Amy is the one who’s in charge of taking the pictures and I’m in charge of handling storage, slide shows and pretty much anything that goes along with printing out our photos. Switching from [...]