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My home alley was a winter world in itself tonight when I...

Application deployment tomorrow

After all the SQL errors, the ASP.Net security headaches, the last-minute, ill-defined JavaScript...

At work before sunrise, coming home in the dark. No snow...

The day before we go live with the pricing application. Expecting a flurry of testing and...

Special thanks to my parents for hosting...

I’m all rested up for 2 long weeks of work before hitting the road to Chicago once again.

On the bus to work at 6:45am. Looking forward to coffee and...

Heading back to Minneapolis. Stopped outside the Thorpedo...

Grandpa took all the kids sledding. The snow in the yard...

The Pinewood Supper Club

The Pinewood

Ate at the Pinewood Supper Club tonight, which is about as good as it gets in central WI. If you eat...

Grandpa is always game for a late-March snowball fight with...

Breakfast is the biggest meal for my kids when we visit...

At my dad’s house in WI. There is at least 6” of snow here. What to do with Grandpa and...

Sitting in Runar’s last daily meeting at Voyageur. He will be missed, but the client will soon...

Back to development after a day of evaluating document generation tools. ‘Doxygen’ for...

I wasn’t thrilled with the Natural Docs output. Anyone know a better tool for JavaScript?

My time at this client will be fondly remembered for the...

The last time I ate at Murray’s, my brother started...

Stopped to appreciate the design of this train station after...

On the late bus with a junky, the weird people and one guy in a red, short sleeve YMCA shirt. Time...

The hearty guy in the short sleeve YMCA shirt got off the bus and into the 28 degree night air....

Lars did an amazing job presenting his project at the LHLC...

‘Just Say Yes’ by Ben Lee is the current other candidate for this year’s kid movie...

This droll poster reminds me of my friend Aslam. This is a...

This picture (in a very convoluted way) resembles my...

Science Fair Tonight

Science fair tonight with my son. Looking forward to seeing all the kid experiments and projects. I...

Working in the 5th Street Towers again has brought back some...

I am considering this song ‘All Will Be Well’ by the Gabe Dixon Band as the soundtrack...

My workspace at Voyageur. I loved having a second monitor,...

This is one of the earliest Easter Sundays in my life. I...

The results of a fun night decorating eggs with mom, dad,...

Linden Hills Easter celebration

We went from 0 to 3” of snow and it’s still coming. Daughter is playing video games and...

We needed a picture of a shouting guy for Lars’...

Twitter is the IT smoke break. Only healthier. And warmer. And with people you don’t see.

Kind of like a non-smoking, indoor, crazy smoke break with virtual smoke.

Leaving early from work and heading home to help my son with his science fair project.

Walking around Lake Calhoun back home. The weather is nice and I have a family night ahead of me....

The ‘laser spy listening device’ isn’t quite working as planned, but Lars is...

It is obvious to me now that slicing through 10+million records from 6 tables, with improper...

The astronomical growth in records has been the ‘moonwalking bear’ of this project.

Just spent the night trying to accomplish mission impossible. The app I am writing simply...

What is plan B? If we are powerless to the corporate db people, the prognosis for this app...

This is as good an explanation of Twitter as I have seen.

Tomorrow I’ll roll out and test the Pricing Finalization logic, and then it’s on to...

Looking forward to planning next version and handing it off to the client. Only 3.5 weeks until I am...

Got my ASP.Net/XML/Excel export done. The files are huge, but Excel opens them as native files. I...

Click here if YouTube doesn’t load properly…

After 3 years with this crappy WM phone, when my contract is up, I will have an iPhone on the very...

Also watched the iPhone video regarding Apple/ActiveSync. The MSFT praise was a little weird. Stve...

Wrote some nice code to dynamically display buttons on a page using C#.

Going to try this experiment for my son’s science fair. We got all the components yesterday...

Loring Pasta Bar

I cannot get enough of this ad campaign by Skittles. It rocks!

What an awesome day. Got the Excell/XML export done. Application passed all the quality testing and...

Off to the bar to have a couple of drinks with a friend. Need to get out with my wife, too. Spring...

Finishing up ASP.Net/XML/Excel export today. Then hopefully I’ll be finiished with the Pricing...

Staving off the depression of putting a pet dwn last night. I hope that the thorny SQL problem I am...

1991 - 2008 Sasha, we love you and miss you...

Working my way through the QA process. The bugs are subtle and hard to root out.

The energy is incredible. But I could see myself being driven insane if I had to spend more than 3...

This park has one of the biggest play structures I have ever seen. It’s 3 stories tall and...

At Edinborough park with my kids. This place is exactly what I would want if I was under 8 years...

This is a fantastic cover by Pine Mountain Railroad. One of the best I have heard in years.

Off to lunch with my brother, then it’s back to code consolidation and bug fixes until I leave...

Watched Lilo & Stitch with my kids last weekend.

“This is pretty f*ckin’ cool!”
— A trader’s reaction to...

I love this photo from Noah Kalina. This kid has a great...

From the artwork of Little Paper Airplanes. I find this...

William Eggleston is an interesting character in American...

From the whimsical ‘products’ of Atypyk.