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Own Your Content (Or, Start Using Your Blog Again) 3

Own Your Content (Or, Start Using Your Blog Again)

Any time Facebook proposes some kind of change to their terms of service, the user base gets whipped into an uproarious frenzy. “How dare they!” a million angry commenters rage, doing a copy/paste of...

Is Weird Al working for USA Networks? 0

Is Weird Al working for USA Networks?

When Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain for permission to parody “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, the first question he asked (after offering up an enthusiastic approval) was if the album was going to be...

Liam the Cookie Monster 3

Liam the Cookie Monster

On Christmas Eve, we were at the Fox family Christmas party and, as it usual, there wasn’t a lot of food there that Liam would consider eating. In fact, the only thing we knew...

Why I Stopped Using Bookmarks 2

Why I Stopped Using Bookmarks

Bookmarks suck. Sure, it was easy to keep track of them when you only had a few dozen, but these days, we want to file away hundreds, usually thousands of various tidbits of information....

A Very Close Call 0

A Very Close Call

On our drive back from California, we had an exceptionally close call. We were between Elko and Winnemucca (which, if you’re not aware, it pretty much Middle of Nowhere, Nevada) and driving through some...

The Moment has passed and the Evo now reigns 1

The Moment has passed and the Evo now reigns

It’s been about a week and a half since Shauna and I upgraded our aging Samsung Moment handsets to the brand new HTC Evo 4G LTE, one of Sprint’s flagship devices for their new...

Liam the Prankster 2

Liam the Prankster

Liam decided to play a prank on me tonight. He was eating (or, more accurately, not eating) dinner and kept asking to get down. Since he hadn’t eaten anything of measure, I kept telling him...

Hitting the Newborn Jackpot 2

Hitting the Newborn Jackpot

To say that our first newborn experience was stressful would be a bit of an understatement. As much as we love our little Martian, he was a handful as an infant. He wouldn’t breastfeed,...