It’s not that I’m planning to be off grid.  But I really like the idea of being self-sufficient. This 20KW solar array will let my family be electrically self-sufficient.  It goes live this week.

I'm not so much living in the Mac World but really visiting. I'm a PC guy through and through. Not out of any particular love of the PC but because historically that's where the best tech was. Sure, if you're a Mac user, you tend to get hung up on style over substance -- in my opinion. I was an OS/2 user from 1992 to 1999 and there's no way you'd ever convince me that System 7 through OS 9 was as good as OS/2 was. From 2000 on, I've been a Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 user. Windows isn't elegant....

Putting together a fantasy book for mass production is definitely no small task. There’s a lot of people involved.  But it’s almost done.

I’m having a lot of fun with the Elemental beta. I have a feeling the ability to design your own heroes is going to be a pretty popular feature.

My 9 year old loves to design games.

Here’s a very very very primitive video that a year from now we can go back and laugh at how weak this stuff was back in the day.

Aero Metals (brushed): UIS0.  Time to do ~5 minutes.   Aero Metal: UIS2. Time to do: Several days.

From an email: Noah, the Dove These little bunnies, about 6 days old, were attacked by a dog and orphaned.  Two out of the litter of five did not survive, and these three were not doing very well.  Noah is a non-releasable, one-legged homing pigeon that we have here in rehab.  Noah kept going over to the bunny cage and looking in...even sleeping in front of the door to the cage. Then, 2 days ago, I only counted 2 bunnies in the cage, so I hurriedly picked Noah up ...

I come home, hoping my new book “ One Second After ” has come in. My wife says, nope, no deliveries. I jump onto Amazon to look for my package. It says it arrived today and was on my porch. So I run to the front door, open the door and there it is, on the porch. See, the Internet has the answer for everything!

(whining begins) I’ve been a software developer for over 15 years and for the most part, I’ve enjoyed it.  But this past month has been sheer agony.  Spending immense amounts of time at work away from my little boys and my daughter and my wonderful wife has been taking its toll and I feel so helpless because my development area isn’t in the area that my teams are focused on – networking. My friends at Gas Powered Games, even right now, are working the midnight oil to do...