I am ready to leave Southern California. I spent the past forty minutes packing my suitcase, getting my laptop bag squared away, the BlackBerry charged, and my reading material and iPod placed in the correct laptop bag locations. Isnt everyone a little anal-retentive about their laptop bag? Mine has traveled everywhere Ive been and I can easily ( Read more... )

While Comcast is capping monthly transfers to 250GB, KDDI, an internet access provider in Japan, is launching 1Gbps fiber-optic service to single family homes for the low price of $56 per month. My current Comcast service, at a blazing-fast 8Mbps, is pathetically slow compared to some of my friends who live in Verizon territory whom have access to ( Read more... )

As a husband and a father of two girls, the thought of breast cancer afflicting any of them scares me. A new test developed at the Mayo Clinic, uses 3D x-rays to better aid the detection of breast cancer and help doctors rule out false-positives. Now, if we can get insurance companies to pay for early mammograms and, once approved, this new 3D x- ( Read more... )

I’ve been home for a week and it’s been wonderful! For the first time this week, I got the children to school on-time Friday making me feel like I was finally over all the traveling. I took Friday off leading to Tyler and I seeing Ironman (in a digital theater). The movie was wonderful, lots of action, suspense, and humor, with impressive sound ( Read more... )

Thirteen days, must be my new record for not blogging. Life’s been handing me lemons and I’m not refreshed by the lemonade that I’m apparently making. Work has been extremely hectic, with multiple projects consuming sixty to seventy hours a week. The previous Saturday I spent the night working from the office between 8:30pm and 2:00am. When not ( Read more... )

Rylin isn’t sleeping well at night. She’s been waking up frequently that Jessica and I cannot get a peaceful night’s sleep. This morning at 4:00am, I brought Rylin downstairs to give Jessica a break. Although Rylin is teething, I’m hoping it’ll end soon!

Most of the Colorado Front Range woke up to a blanket of snow. Instead of heading to work and ( Read more... )

I don’t really mean what’s written in the subject field; I’d love to see the Rockies win the World Series and bring back some notoriety to Colorado. The entire ticket purchasing fiasco has been a joke with yesterday being poor planning and today being the biggest waste of time ever.

Game three, four, and five went on sale yesterday at 10am MDT. ( Read more... )

The past couple days I’ve been non-stop; it was nice to take a break today. My company went through our yearly test of processes and procedures for the restoration of all our computers and servers. We started 8am Friday and finished yesterday evening. There were a few problems here and there but all were manageable and weren’t our problems but ( Read more... )

I'd like to recap my whole week as it truly has been a week from hell. Jessica and the children were wonderfully and unbelievably supportive of me during the week and I'm truly thankful for having such a wonderful wife and family. Where to begin? I think I'll start with the technical and work my way to the non-technical more family oriented ( Read more... )

I've known some stupid people in my life.  What's worse, I've known stupid people who do really stupid things.  Though I may not know who this individual is nor do I know or care what game he was playing, I can only assume that he had absolutely no life outside of the Internet.  To sit at an Internet cafe for three days playing games, that's ( Read more... )