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Google has declared war on the open Internet 4

Google has declared war on the open Internet

I’ve been a self-described Google whore for a long time now. I started using the search engine not long after it first went public (and displaced then-giants like Yahoo and AltaVista), I got in on the Gmail beta way back...

SimCity, New Releases, and the Value Proposition 0

SimCity, New Releases, and the Value Proposition

A little game by the name of SimCity was released last week after a decade since the last release (or, in Internet terms, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth). I’ve personally been pretty excited about it, but I don’t really like...

Dust and neglect and cookies 1

Dust and neglect and cookies

For a long time now, I’ve had a philosophy that if I start to get an itch to replace something, like a car, for example, the prescription is to take some time to thoroughly care for my current car. I...

Liam, the Iguana 2

Liam, the Iguana

This is a video of Liam “reading” his favorite book. There’s no reading involved here, of course. He’s MEMORIZED the entire book. This is a book about Iguana. Iguana wants to be like everyone else (despite her lovely green color...

Letting babies decide the best way to eat 2

Letting babies decide the best way to eat

We’ve been working on solid foods with Nathan and he’s been taking to it much better than Liam ever did. (In some ways, he’s well beyond his older brother on that front.) Tonight I decided to let him finish off...

There’s a niche for everything (and competition for it too) 0

There’s a niche for everything (and competition for it too)

Nathan was being kind of a pill about going to sleep tonight (it took the both of us about three hours to get him to zonk out) and one of the weapons we (and by “we” I mean Shauna) tried...

Self-driving cars should also be self-parking cars 1

Self-driving cars should also be self-parking cars

Almost any time you go to Costco, you’ll find the parking lot crammed to capacity. I normally don’t really care about this and just park wherever I can find a space quickly although some stores have Valet Parking Software to...

No, Mike, you’re wrong. You shouldn’t blog exclusively on Google+. 0

No, Mike, you’re wrong. You shouldn’t blog exclusively on Google+.

Mike Elgan has written a post on Google+ that the vast majority of bloggers should abandon their standalone blogs and post exclusively on Google_ instead. His argument is centered around the idea that blog comments suck. Given that many people...

Fun times with autism treatment options 5

Fun times with autism treatment options

So just before Christmas, Liam was officially diagnosed with Autism. We’ve kind of been operating under that assumption for quite some time now, so this is not really big news. The only reason I pursued  an official diagnosis for him...