A Precarious Balance

It's been over a year since I last wrote a post on this blog. I'm going to blame it entirely on my ability to become overly focused on whatever is important to me at the time. In February 2007, I and three other Community Server technical evangelists started a company named Four Roads. We came together because we had a common vision of ...

Have you gone to a restaurant and left realizing that you've eaten way more than you should? If you were raised to clean your plate and you eat at typical American restaurants that serve huge portions of food, it's easy to do. Over the past year, I've tended to asked the waitress to leave food off my plate (e.g., ...

The subject of this post is quite off topic for this blog. But it causes me enough concern that I want to write about it anyway. It's been reported that significant numbers of commercial bee colonies have literally disappeared. The hives are intact, they contain honey, but the majority of the bees have left and gone elsewhere, presumed ...

...and probably didn't want to know. But I was tagged by Julian, so here goes:My software engineering career started in high school. A friend of mine was going away to college and he helped me get his job at the local newspaper. We lived in Evansville, Indiana. The Evansville Courier and Press had come up with a program named Newspapers In ...

Did you make some resolutions for the New Year? Is there a whiny, little voice in your head that mutters "What happened to last year's resolutions; you didn't even do one"? Many years ago, I would go through the same old thing each December and January. In my idealistic youth, I could come up with a page or two of ...

...and don't read books by people who write blogs. Why? Because they can lead you places that are uncomfortable. They're not to blame for starting me down this unfamiliar path, but I can certainly say they sped up my pace. Where have I gone? Where do I find myself? Shortly before the blogs, I did something unpredictable ...

This is from the back of a Christmas gift that made its way into our home this year. After seeing this, how can you not respect ninjas? In case you can't read it, it says: Ninjas can turn invisible whenever they want! Ninjas can destroy anything without caring! --Sean Winstead Tags: Life

This is too good not to mention. Here's the introductory lines from an entry on the Colorado Springs Police Blotter: At approximately 9:45AM Stetson Hill Officers were sent to stop two donkeys and three horses that were traveling without riders or licenses in the middle of the road on Constitution Ave. heading toward Murray Blvd. Strategically ...

There's nothing like sitting in a comfortable, cozy home while it snows or rains outside. Here in Colorado Springs, we've had a blizzard warning for the past couple of days and it actually showed up. We get a lot of dry snow here, but this one's wet and mushy. I ventured outside to gather some pictures. One that didn't come out ...

I had no idea that our trip to Hawaii would be topped off with an earthquake. We had gone there as part of Falafel Software's 2nd annual Maui retreat. For Jerilyn and I, this was our first big vacation since our honeymoon 12 years ago and the first time we'd taken all four kids on an airplane. And it was the first time our family ...