Jon

I don't think I ever posted these

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:42:07 GMT

Here are the first two segments of the slideshow I put together for Julie's 40th birthday: Part 1: 1968-1974 Part 2: 1974-1982 I have the other 4 parts at home still waiting to be uploaded.

What won the election for Obama?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:04:49 GMT

As the Wednesday morning quarterbacking commences, there are many different theories about this year's election, most prevalent is that Obama won because of the economic crisis. I took a look at the polling data, and if you go back to the period before the conventions, Obama had a lead of approximately 2%. He finished with a 52-46 victory, approximately 6%, so if we adjust the final results across the entire map by +2 for McCain and -2 for Obama, how would that possibly have affected...

Whew!

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:57:22 GMT

Threw a big 40th birthday party for Julie this weekend. I had been planning thjings for quite a while, the past 6-8 weeks, gathering photos for a slideshow and emails from freinds and family for a scrapbook. I wound up pulling an all-nighter on Saturday (the first time I had done that since college) and everything came together great. I will be uploading the slideshow movies to YouTube, and there are some pictures from the party on flickr already:...

Hmm. It's been a while

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:59:13 GMT

OK, so I'm looking at our website and thinking, "gosh, this is really old and out-of-date." When I notice that the weblog is apparently entirely broken. Cool. So, after a good bit of digging around in settings files, etc., I think it is back up and running. Been a while since I last put something up here (2+years, it would appear), so what has been going on?

The words you never expect to write

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:01:53 GMT

It has taken me almost 3 months to finish this post. I've never had a harder time finding the words to say. I still may come back and tweak this as necessary. My father died Monday, November 7th, he was 61. Growing up as the oldest child, there were only a few people who really knew me "all my life", from the moment I was born. That circle is now even smaller.

I will eventually be posting again, don't worry

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:47:17 GMT

I need to finish one very important post about what's been going on over these past few months, then I will try to get back on a regular schedule. Been down in Orlando this week, and have renewed enthusiasm about blogging (and other stuff, too. Share that later.) Jon.

Very sad news

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:49:16 GMT

Just found out today that a card-playing friend has succumbed to a rare disease he has been fighting for a couple of years now. Mike, you will be sorely missed. See the website his father, Peter, has been maintaining for more information.

Upgraded to Tiger

Tue, 03 May 2005 16:51:10 GMT

Been playing around with 10.4 since Saturday. Upgrade went smoothly. New features seem cool, but I'm not sure if they warrant a major version upgrade. One thing I was contemplating doing is creating a dashboard widget for Notes mail, something like Notes Minder (since there is no OS X equivalent). I had hoped that the ability to launch the Notes client natively to read the message would be simple, but that apparently requires that WebKit (Safari) know how to access a notes: URL....

Argh!!!

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:02:39 GMT

I hate Duke.

A year ago today

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:16:07 GMT

There have been relatively few days in my life that I can look back upon and identify as days when my life changed, but February 5th, 2004 was definitely one of those days. Starting in November, 2003, we had been spending all of our time and energy working to complete all of the paperwork necessary for our adoption. We had a videotape of Lera, and a brief medical summary, but as is typical for Russian adoptions, many of the terms used on the report were confusing or downright scary. We...