Taking a personal day
I mostly talk about geeky stuff on this blog, but sometimes I like to get a little more personal. Today is one of those days.Like this post, I took my public speaking to a personal place this month. A...
How does a geek end up doing public speaking?
I just finished reading Confessions of a Public Speaker (O'Reilly) by Scott Berkun. It is the first book I have read cover to cover in 16 years. I even read the colophon (which I had never seen in a b...
Engineers Work In Their Sleep
My grandmother worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center. She worked with a lot of engineers. I have always remembered when she told my cousin and I that we should be engineers. Her reasoning was tha...
Spreading Open Source (sort of)
So, I know I just had a kid, but I am at a friends house helping with some computer issues. This is the friend that took my wife to the hospital and sat with her until I got there, after all. She ...
Hudson is born!
Well, it was not as planned, but he is here. Our 6th child, Hudson Bennett Moon came into the world this morning at 8:53AM. All of our children have been born via C section. The plan was to come...
Oh Hail!
We had a huge hail storm today. It came out of nowhere. It was kind of scary. Here is a photo that may yield more perspective. ...
Snow!
Wow! For the second time this year we had snow for the kids to play in. It was all gone by noon, but we got out early and took some pictures. Click the picture below to see more. ...
Sharper Image Bankrupt?
I first saw it on dealnews, and read more on Google News. So, selling lame stuff for really high prices doesn't pay the bill? Huh. Who knew?...
Trying out Twitter
I have decided to try out Twitter. Mostly it is a curiousity about what it does and how it works. The recent outages baffle me. It seems like a very simple application. I am hoping to find the...
This is so geeky and cool!
My coworker Rob is building a little project at home. After some bad experience with cheap black box servers, he got some used Dell's. Now, he has done this. Heh, is pretty cool....