Abby DC

This evening Abby started singing some AC DC. Now, for those of you who are wondering, “How on earth do you fit into your clothes?” I’ll answer that later. For those of you wondering why my two year old was listening to AC DC it is because the skateboard video game I have has it as part of the cycling ‘musictrack.’ The song that AC DC performs is ‘TNT.’ However, Abby, being young and not the most familiar with the alphabet changed it to DAD. So she walked around this aftenoon and evening saying, “DAD, Dynomite!”

Priceless.

Financial Accountability: Cancel Inauguration Parties

From Mark Cuban: Do the Right Thing – Cancel Inauguration Parties. If the innauguration parties are going to cost 4o million dollars (partisanship aside here) lets dump them in favor of other things. In my lifetime I will most likely never see that amount of money, many of my readers likewise will not see that much money. Lets not spend it fivolously on parties for a president that has already had one and will just be continuing on in office. I think there are thousands if not more than a million people all over the globe, including tsunami vicitms who need the resources more than some ritzy folks need a party that they helped fund and create.

She Said…

Jessica told me about a conversation she overheard at Victoria’s Secret’s Semi-Annual sale while rummaging through bins of undergarments:

Girl 1: So, do you think other women try these on?
Girl 2: I like to to live in the fantasy that they don’t.
Girl 3: Yeah, you just keep living in that fantasy.

Wow. The things that people say in public are almost as crazy as the stuff I write much more publicly on this blog.

So, what did you overhear?

A New Site is Coming

I’m bound and determined to update the look of this site after the turn of this year. I’ve come up with a good site prototype, but I had another idea just earlier that I’ll try to implement. We’ll see 🙂

In other news, pray for the folks who have been absolutely devastated by the earthquake and tsunamis. Right now.

OK.

Amen.

My Small Part

If you haven’t heard about the Tsunami in Indonesia and effecting large parts of the Indian Ocean, you can get an overview here. Nick Bradbury is offering 100% of profits until the end of the year to help relief. If you want to help support other ways, my buddy Tony and I have started givetwice.org [UPDATE: The server is down! Try using this link to order, temporarily], which will take the portion of the money that Amazon.com gives in revenue to site owners that are part of their associates program to several humanitarian organizations. It’s small, but my partner and I have talked and we want to get this up and running to help others out!

Google Favelet

Favelets are links that only contain javascript that manipulate the content of a page or might possibly do other cool things. You can find a good explanation and some other useful favelets at http://tantek.com/favelets/ However, I just created one that should hopefully be pretty useful. This one should insert the link count in Google for results. Yahoo! adds rank numbers into the HTML, but Google, for whatever reason does not. Hopefully this is useful:
Drag this link into your toolbar or favorites.

Please report any problems with this in the comments.

Windows Rehab

So, I’ve been using the iBook for all of my non-Windows required development. It’s painful. Well, no OS-X isn’t painful, it’s Windows that’ is painful. I keep hitting the crazy Alt key while I’m trying to do things. Why? Because the Apple key is right there on the iBook. The real problem is that I’ve developed new habits and now I’m starting to feel the consequences of my actions. I’m reminded of a statement Jesus once made: You can’t serve two masters. So, I’m having to try to straddle the fence, but it feels like it’s a bad plan. If only they made some sort of Microsoft Visual Source Safe plugin for OS-X (if they do, please post a comment).

Successful Christmas

Flickr Photo

Jessica and Abby

Today was a good day, lots of Presents were exchanged, but most importantly we had a good time with family and friends and enjoyed having Jesus’ birthday party 🙂 This is Jessica helping Abby with her first present in her stocking. More pictures to come.