Wow. This was news I was not expecting to hear last night. My son had just finished eating dinner and I sat down on the couch for a quick RSS read through on the iPhone. There it was on from the Mashable feed – Steve Jobs Has Died. Quickly I scroll down, …
Category Archives: Personal Writing
The Past Versus The Present
Last night, in regards to the story I posted yesterday, Xie asked me why am I always writing about the past. My answer is that I want to get enough down that if I ever become famous someone can write a pretty authentic biography. The conversation did also move into my belief of preserving …
XBMC for Apple TV2
Yes, I know that this software is available for awhile. I actually had it months ago until Netflix stopped working on my Apple TV2 (for the remainder of the post the Apple TV2 will be referred to as ATV). When Netflix stopped working I was forced to try and upgrade the firmware. Unfortunately …
The Time I Found Out My Girlfriend Was Engaged – Not to Me
To start this, this story happened years ago. I have been married to my wife for 12 years and we have been together for 14. This story takes us back to my single college year. I was young, dumb, and eighteen. This is almost literally a full lifetime ago. To tell …
The Tide Raises All Ships
I wanted to get back to writing more, and I used the mashup site I’ve been working on as a visual reminder of much I am not creating these days. This has gotten me to put more down on the screen in the last week. What I have noticed is that one other …
Creating An Online Home For Friends
Over the last couple weeks I have done a couple posts (here and here) about creating the mashup site for friends blogs to filter through. I did make sure that I turned off the function to have these posts show up in search engines. I figured if something was created by someone, it …
Aural Memories
We all have things that trigger senses. They may be places or people that trigger touch memories, scent memories, or in the case of today sound memories. I was out mowing the lawn today and I normally I listen to podcasts while doing this. My lawn isn’t a fifteen minute task, it normally …