Made some good progress in the yard today — we finally got the rock garden put together, and it looks a lot better than the pile of rocks that had been sitting there. This is the view down from the second floor: the new rock border winding along the garden bed, the woodpile in the corner, and spring just starting to come back.
Akiva again in his yellow bandana, standing on the wood floor and looking right up at me. He’s the kind of dog who makes you want to grab the camera, and I usually do.
“Meet Boo and Miss Daisy Mae — the little married couple! They are both just 1 year old.” Boo and Miss Daisy Mae are officially the cutest married couple we have ever seen, and at one year old they have clearly already settled into a life of comfortable companionship. These two brown and white Shih…
Update (October 2026) Looking back, most of this held up. Monthly subscriptions really did replace buying software once, and services really do disappear: MobileMe, Picasa and Google Play Music are all gone now. The part that changed the most is speed. That 768K upload I was fighting with is a tiny fraction of what a…
If the article I wrote yesterday wasn’t enough to convince you to back up your data, maybe this will be. I can’t say it enough: back up your data: all of it. Photos, documents, music, the things you’d be heartbroken to lose. Hard drives fail, laptops get dropped, and the only thing standing between you…
Quite the wake-up call — at 1:16 a.m. a transformer on the utility pole down the street caught fire. I grabbed this shot right from my bedroom window. You could see the flames flickering up on the pole against the night sky, with the neighbors’ houses lit up in the orange glow. Thankfully it stayed…
While many of us are currently experiencing some unseasonably warm weather, this is an important topic to make sure your aware of and you take precautions for. Per daily mail.co.uk: “Hundreds of pets are becoming seriously ill and in some cases dying because of the rock salt and antifreeze being used during the cold snap,…