Ramblings

SamK doing Music Videos?

SamK is a great rider from Pocatello who recently broke his back. I just saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tell Me Baby video

Merry Christmas

Specialized has a unique Christmas greeting with The Nutcracker Suite performed entirely on instruments of bicycle parts! Check it out at Specialized Holiday Greetings.

Lazy Programmers

Even though I am on my work sabbatical, I still find it hard for the user experience guy in me to ignore bad design. I’ve

eBay Spoof Got Me!

Eagle, ID — Being on the Internet since 1993, I thought I was savvy enough that this would never happen to me. Well, today I was

Computer Build

Eagle, ID — Now that I have more time on my hands (with no work and all) I decided that I’d build my next computer. I

Bullets and Beer

As a team-building activity for the project I work on in my professional life, it was decided that we would have a “bullets and beer”

iMac for the Folks

My parents finally got tired of hearing all this great stuff about email and the “Internet” so they finally decided to buy a computer. As

Cub Scouts Tour of Fire Station

Heather does an awesome job of organizing cool activities for our cub scout pack. We are over the Bear Den but sometimes we combine dens

Stop bugging me!

Virus Advisories should not pop-up from the system tray when the user already has the latest virus definition files that would take care of the

Creative Muvo TX FM

I just purchased a Creative Muvo TX FM mp3 player to replace the iRiver 180T I sold a while ago. The iRiver was a good

Adobe’s Colorless Palettes

Currently, in all Adobe products I’ve used (Photoshop CS, Illustrator 10, Elements 3.0) the tool palettes are black and white *until* the mouse pointer is

eBay Bad Experience #2

Well, this is the second bad experience I’ve had on eBay, but the first one was due to an incompetent seller so that’s not eBay’s

Sinus Surgery

I have suffered from a sinus infection for the past four months. We threw antibiotics and Prednisone at it, but nothing helped. I saw several

Heather’s Pin Removal

I had my final appointment with Dr. Lamey at the Boise Orthopedic Clinic. I went in to have the pin in my collarbone removed. This

Fire in SLC

On the drive down we noticed a thick black plume of smoke rising up from Salt Lake City as we were going through Bountiful. Heather

ProClarity Offsite

For my job at ProClarity, I attended a leadership offsite up in Garden Valley, ID. It was a very productive offsite, much better than I