The primary reason I started this blog was to get familiar with WordPress deployment and administration and to practice my writing. I found I enjoyed blogging, at least during the times I didn’t have technical documentation to write, so I’ve …
If you follow my blog you may be aware that I recently embarked on a new adventure called musical theater. Like most of my adventures that I stumble into it began when my children asked me, “Can we Daddy? Please!” …
Being a SAHD is always an adventure. My oldest two children are involved in the local children’s theater which requires a certain level of parent volunteer assistance to pull off the productions. Typically this volunteering is split along gender lines …
Scientist have announced the detection of gravity waves. I’d like to go on and on about how incredibly cool this is and the extensive impact this will have on astronomy but it would pale in comparison to this post so …
I took an extended break from blogging, and by extended break I mean I was got wrapped up in writing several pages of technical and due diligence documentation and did not have more time to spend at the keyboard. It …
I’m a little late speaking up about this, mostly because it’s summer time and between work and the kids there hasn’t been much time for writing. But also because this is one of those topics that make me pause before …
Recently a single mother was arrested and her nine year old child placed into foster care because she let her play at the playground while she was working at a nearby McDonald’s. As usual my stand-by for analysis and commentary, …
This past friday the kids had an early dismissal, my first ever. Being inexperienced as a SAHD I didn’t have any thing planned for the kids, When I was a kid an early dismissal in itself was enough of a …
As a business consultant I am often charged with making my client’s company more “innovative”. Every CEO wants to be the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Jeff Bezos, for obvious reasons. You’ll get no argument out of me that …
A recent article in the Pacific Standard magazine makes the case that software engineers need a dose of ethics when it comes to designing their applications. Its easy to insist that everyone perform ethically in their endeavors but the reality …