On Friday morning, Andrea & I will be driving to Bangor, Maine to get on a plane bound for NYC. We will both be speaking at WordCamp NYC (WCNYC) on Saturday morning. (If you click through the link you’ll see our sessions are listed under the BuddyPress/MU track.) Most [...]
It seems that people are writing in their blogs less. It’s been a gradual decline which I think has made it somewhat less noticeable. Perhaps it’s more along the lines that we’re aware of it, but set the issue aside for another day. This blog is an example of one [...]
For the last long while I had been posting once or twice a month. On checking the date of my last post, I see it’s been almost 2 months. Today was Meaghan’s birthday and she turned 17. Wow, it’s been an amazing 17 years
Today is [...]
I’m not sure I could say it much better myself. The whole article is worth a read
I shouldn’t be too harsh on Willingham. He’s not the only one avoiding this particular elephant in the room. Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school [...]
I’m currently working on a couple projects that involve connecting the site we are working on with Facebook (FB). Even though we have looked at FB over one of the girls’ shoulders, neither Andrea nor I had signed up.
For the most part it seems FB has taken functionality that [...]
The upgrade went fairly well. There were 2 issues that I was expecting I would have to work around/fix. For both of them I already had a plugin that I have used on a handful of client sites. There were 2 other issues that cropped up that I was not [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be working through a long overdue upgrade of homeschool journal. Andrea & I have a long list of tweaks & changes that we want to make. My goal is to work through most of those over the month of July. I think we are finally catching up though.
[...]Seems I’m swinging by for my monthly blog post. One of the things I’ve been working on over the last few months is moving our web sites from the VPS we have had for the last few years to a dedicated server. Between the two, we are spending a couple [...]
When Andrea & I were out yesterday, we went to dinner to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary (which is today). The place we wanted to go was the place we had dinner 20 years ago on V Day. Then it was a Chinese restaurant and now it’s a pub. We [...]
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. When I was growing up the folks where I lived paid attention to the weather on Feb 2. I can’t remember a winter back then that Feb 2nd did not reflect how the rest of the winter went.
In the last 10-15 years, I’ve found that [...]
Yes, I know, it’s January 10th :/ Most of the blogs I read that had an end of year post managed to have it up by the end of New Year’s Day. I finally kicked myself in the pants and decided to write a post here *before* I started working [...]
Andrea & I wish you all the best this Christmas time. We are hoping for a happy and prosperous New Year for one and all.
For HSJ users, we are in the early stages of planning an upgrade for HSJ. We will keep you posted on this and expect that we [...]
Just wanted to leave you a quick note wishing you all the best over Christmas and into the New Year. Andrea and I are looking forward to a few days where the computer usage will be minimal
Last night I was reading a Letter from Kamp Krusty (HT: Carrie). The post prompted me to try to remember what was the most expensive Christmas gift I had ever bought. I didn’t think of it until today. 10 years ago, I bought Andrea our current dining room [...]
Site “move” successful I’m getting a bit of practice at it ;D
Yes, the site is back on WP, sort of. It’s actually running on the WPMU 2.7 beta. I skipped from WP 2.0 to 2.7 (which has a new admin interface). I’ll have more news & [...]
As long as things go well, I will switching blog platforms this evening. If you don’t see a new post in the RSS by tomorrow morning, swing by and resubscribe.
[...]I’m going to be changing blogging platforms over the next couple weeks. I’m giving a bit of advanced notice to allow the weekly readers an opportunity to see the notice.
[...]Sometime in the next few weeks this blog will be undergoing renovations. I have a rough idea of what I want to do but have decided exactly what and/or how I’m going to do it. I blame it on the fact that there have been recent changes to the backend [...]
As I mentioned in the last post, I wanted to do a series of pics as the snow melted. We still have a few days to go 
Today -
2 days ago -
4 days ago -
For the last couple weeks I’ve been thinking about doing a picture a day as the snow melts. This weekend the snow did start shrinking back (some). By the look of the weather forecast, I’m expecting a good amount of snow will disappear this week. Unfortunately, my schedule this week [...]
Today, the folks at the post office told Andrea that spring arrived at 1:30 this morning. I awoke to the sound of ice pellets hitting the window. When I stepped out of the carport this morning, I saw the groundhog that has taken up residence near our house. We had [...]
Opportunities for fun like this don’t happen that often. You have to grab them while you can
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Opportunities for fun like this don’t happen that often. You have to grab them while you can
You can click through for more pics.
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After supper, I walked down to the lake to get a few pictures of the sunset. I stopped a few steps short of the lake shore and looked back. I couldn’t resist. Even to the naked eye, my tracks disappeared in the distance. I would guess that I [...]
After supper, I walked down to the lake to get a few pictures of the sunset. I stopped a few steps short of the lake shore and looked back. I couldn’t resist. Even to the naked eye, my tracks disappeared in the distance. I would guess that I [...]
Unschooling Voices #13 is up.
Andrea sent me a link to some maze design research at the University of Waterloo, one of Canada’s prominent universities. I’ve always enjoyed mazes. What I find a bit amusing about the article is that in one of the programming courses I used [...]
Unschooling Voices #13 is up.
Andrea sent me a link to some maze design research at the University of Waterloo, one of Canada’s prominent universities. I’ve always enjoyed mazes. What I find a bit amusing about the article is that in one of the programming courses I used [...]
As a quick note, readers here and at Andrea’s blog have had issues leaving comments. I’ve made some adjustments with the hope of alleviating that.
A 4 point good news update from the post last night:
Tonight I had an unexpected phone call. My oldest brother (who is almost 20 years older than me) had a stroke. Through the testing to determine the damage caused by the stroke, they’ve discovered he has brain tumours. If he survives until morning, they will be operating to remove the [...]
Unschooling Voices #12 is up. Thanks, Kim.
Everyone in our house has the occasional tendency to start talking out loud midway through a conversation/train of thought going on in their head. Emma is no exception. There are times when she shows how astute she is.
Earlier this week Emma and I [...]
Just as a brief follow-up, the money went into our account this afternoon. Since we have never sold via a third party before, we had a few surprises along the way. Everyone involved got their chip off the proceeds. And that’s kind of what happened to me along the way. [...]
This morning I received an email from our lawyer that said he had received a copy of all of the papers necessary to draw up the documents for the sale of the green house. Yesterday we finished signing off agreements on the outstanding conditions for a purchase-sale agreement. I won’t [...]
