in process

Rule Breakin' Blogger

2006-01-12T15:06:00.000-05:00

Over the last few months I have been addicted to problogger. It seems like every time I see a new article in my reader I mark it for later reading. For those of you who are not familiar with the site and find the name is too hard a code to crack this site is about blogging for money. He has a ton of good tips that are relvant whether or not you are looking to make money from your blog(s).Things

A Blog for the New Year

2006-01-05T07:18:00.000-05:00

As part of the New Year's resolutions Jen and I have started a new blog about parenting. Granted we still have a lot to learn but we hope to be able to pass slong some of the things we have learned as well as share some of the resources we have found. I also think that shering it with someone will help to motivate me to post more often which is another one of my resolutions.ma.da.ba � Hello world

New Years Resolutions

2006-01-01T16:06:00.000-05:00

In the spirit of the new year here are a list of resolutions / things I want to accomplish in '06. I tried to paint with a wide brush to give myself a variety of things to work on as well as a way to bablance my time amongst many different aims.Home & Family Move Computer Room upstairsPaint Living RoomPay off Credit Card (~$3,000) Work on a project with Jen(wife)Visit the zoo at

Who needs radio anyhow?

2005-12-23T08:39:00.000-05:00

Everyone I know who listens to WDET is absolutely irate with their decision to drop daytime music in favor of NPR talk programming. An open letter on the WDET website confirms that this extends well beyond my immediate circle of friends and family. Some have taken to the web to vent their frustration in blog form. others are getting organized. While I understand and share some of their

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox

2005-12-23T08:04:00.000-05:00

Googles new Firefox extension that allows you to view "Blogger Web Comments" seems like a pretty solid idea. A quick view to see what other people have to say about the page you are looking at on their blogs. This is especially nice for pages without the option to leave comments or trackbacks. One problem though. None of my comments ever seem to show up in the new extension. I have added

Does customer service apply on the web?

2005-12-21T20:59:00.000-05:00

I ran across a story on the consumerist that at least confirms that I an not the only one who takes issue with Amazon.coms customer service. It seems that once an order has reached a certain point in their workflow it can not be stopped. In this particular the items were Christmas gifts that were not going to make it in time for Christmas but no notice was sent until 4 days later, leaving

RSS Widget madness

2005-12-20T19:30:00.000-05:00

So maybe I am alone in this but it seems to me that the idea of a LifeHacker Konfabulator Widget to grab thier rss feed is contrary to the idea of both life hacks and RSS. The beauty of RSS is that it lends itself so well to the aggregation of content. So why on earth would I want to give up precious desk space to an rss feeder for 1 site. A quick search of the Yahoo's Widget Gallery shows

Resurrection

2005-11-14T14:20:00.000-05:00

I was just about to start a new blog to capture ideas that don’t fit anywhere else when I thought why not just use this one. I think the title and intent are both consistent with a catchall journal. Think of the long space between this and the previous entry as a dramatic pause.

An idea for a weekly section

2005-05-30T12:15:00.000-04:00

Here is another piece I have had sitting on my hard drive but haven't really found the right angle to make it interesting yet. This may end up becoming part of a larger article or the introduction to a section of my site that explains some of the technical concepts in an easy to understand way that might interest others in using them in thier own ways. For the last month or so the Internet

Open Source

2005-05-30T12:08:00.000-04:00

The first piece I will post I have had sitting on my laptop for a littl eover a week. I wrote it after listening to the third installment of "OpenSource", a new public radi oshow that is being podcast as well. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should. I listened to the third installment of OpenSource radio the other night and it brought up some really interesting, if not new criticisms

Here it comes...

2005-05-30T12:02:00.000-04:00

I haven't posted to this blog in a quite a while now. Part of the reason is that I have been busy with other things. Not the least of which is my new site "This is Dearborn". However during this period I have been writing a few different pieces in parallel but didn't really know how they fit into the site. I have decided to post them here and to continue to post anything and everything here until

This, is Dearborn

2005-05-17T18:53:00.000-04:00

Since the last post I have shifted directions a bit and started a new site. The purpose is to provide a public forum for the people who live & work in Dearborn, MI. I hope, in time, it will become a source for news and information that digs a little deeper and offers more diversity in opinion than traditional media sources can offer. In the meantime, this site will remain a side project as I

And now for something completely different…

2005-05-02T08:37:00.000-04:00

So, what exactly have I learned up to this point?I am not ready to create the podcast I envision in a reasonably short timeI am not altogether convinced that it is the only thing I want to doSounds like it’s time to give up, right? Absolutely not, this is an opportunity for reinvention. A time to assess where I am, where I thought I was going, and how I can put a positive spin on this in the

lurching forward

2005-04-30T23:06:00.000-04:00

I managed to install skype today but I still need to test the recording capabilities. I purchased some skypeout time so I can test it tomorrow sometime. I don't anticipate any problems but you never know. I worked on some questions for the podcasters I am going to interview for the first show. That reminds me I should probably put together a list of podcasters I want to interview. <-- Note to

adjusted expectations

2005-04-29T23:43:00.000-04:00

I have decided to adjust the date of the first show. Initially I wanted to release the first one in a bout 2 weeks. I now realize that while that is possible, it would likely be crap. The way I see it as long as I am moving forward, my goal should be to have the first show reach a certain level of quality. Namely that someone listening to the first show may actually be interested in listening to

concept

2005-04-27T13:48:00.000-04:00

I was thinking about the topic for the show today and I realized that I keep going back and forth on whether or not the topic choice was a stroke of genius or a short-sighted mistake. Sometimes I think it is a bit too myopic in focus and that I will struggle to find enough interesting content to fill a show. At other times I am convinced the topic is amorphous enough to allow for an unlimited

first post

2005-04-25T09:24:00.000-04:00

This is the obligatory first post for this blog:Purpose: Online accompanyment for the in process podcastContent: Anything related to the show - pics, diagrams, comments, notes to self, notes to others etc...Tags: podcast