the occasional occurrence

In case any of you weren’t sure of my stance on this, I hereby declare MySpace the armpit of the Internet.
cw

My brother-in-law is picking up Democratic presidential-hopeful John Edwards from the airport tonight. Anyone have any questions that you’d like him to ask while he has him captive?
UPDATE (8/4/2007): Ok, so he isn’t picking him up until later this afternoon. Feel free to get your last minute questions in.
cw

I think that this is one of those universal truths that doesn’t get enough airtime.
cw

So I was just reading this techie blog, and when I was mousing over a link about to click on it, all of a sudden this “mini-preview” of the page I was about to click appeared. It didn’t really do anything beneficial - just showed this little thumbnail of the page that I was [...]

Here are a couple questions that Curtis (our 3-and-a-half year old) has asked me in the past 24 hours:
Dad, did God make microbes?
I think I stumbled through ok on this one. Something like:
Well Curtis, there are many good microbes, and even microbes that would be bad to get in our bodies have their place [...]

Sarah, on why she snatched Eli (our 19 mo. old) from me last night at 3am when he woke up crying:
It was my zombie-mom nurture mode.
I was happy to return to “zombie-dad sleeping mode”.
cw

So an article about user interfaces on Coding Horror prompted me to say a short piece about Ion*.
When doing serious work on the computer, I always find myself tiling my windows. Overlapping windows are so annoying. And tiling them in an organized manner is even more annoying.
From the article:
Manipulating windows is pure excise– [...]

We just got a new digital camera today. Our four year old Minolta DiMage S414 likes to say “Err” more than take photos, so it was high time to get a replacement. After looking around for a couple months, we settled on the Nikon Coolpix S10. We definitely wanted a smaller camera [...]

I think that this blog entry at Coding Horror pretty much nails why I enjoy programming.
At my previous job we took this personality test of sorts called StrengthsFinder that is supposed to help reveal your top 5 strengths. I took it twice and while some of the results varied, I had Learner in my [...]

My good friend Ryan recently posted some thoughts about hearing from and praying to God:

Some honest questions from an honest person who has been a “Christian” for some time now.
“How does one hear God?” Lately, I’ve heard lots of people begin their sentences with “I felt like God was telling me…” or “God seems to [...]