This past Saturday and Sunday were spent with family in Wisconsin whom we hadn’t seen for quite a while.  The occasion for the visit was the marriage of one of Michele’s cousins.  It was particularly nice to visit a bit with Michele’s paternal grandma, whom I admire and respect.  She, like so many unfortunate others, [...]

My kids come up with the funniest things to say sometimes.  This morning, for example, Tristan was watching something on TV about the baby beluga whale that was recently born at the Shedd Aquarium.  He rushed upstairs to tell me, with great excitement:  “Dad!  Did you know that zoo we went to recently has a [...]

While we have a local public library where we now live, it isn’t that great in terms of its collection and physical space, especially its children’s area. Why the library isn’t better, I don’t know, but it isn’t because of lack of a tax base or sufficient funding, or so it seems to me.
It [...]

With some sadness and lots of fanfare, Keegan and Tristan left with Grandpa and Grandma Jozwiak on a missions trip to Manitoulin Island, Ontario. This is what Keegan has done each year for the past eight years, but this year is Tristan’s first time. His grandparents promised him that he could go with [...]

I’ve seen two new movies in the theaters in the past few days, and that is extremely unusual. Fortunately I liked both of them very much. Thursday night I went with Keegan to see the latest Harry Potter movie, and this afternoon Michele and I took Cohen and Brinley to see Ratatouille, the [...]

A lot has been written in other blogs, in conference reports, in articles and elsewhere about the growing technology gap between the “haves” and the “have nots.”  It definitely exists; what is debatable is how rapidly the gap is increasing.  I was interested to note on a TV monitor in my company’s cafeteria a brief [...]

These are my links for March 1st through March 11th:

Install Wordpress on a USB stick - I am a big fan of using USB flash drives for portable applications like Firefox, Flock, and now WordPress. MPOW locks down PCs to such an extent that this is sometimes the only way someone can use the [...]

Great article (found via Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff blog) on LibraryThing. While some competitors have recently entered the same type of niche (such as Shelfari), noone does it better than Tim Spalding, Abby Blachly, and others at LibraryThing.
Link to A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room - New York Times

Here is a photo of me on my third birthday. I got a kick out of comparing it with Cohen’s photos on his third birthday. The birthday cake in this photo was made by my mother in the shape of a Holstein calf.

Here is a video of us singing happy birthday to Cohen. [Be patient; it may take awhile for the video to show up depending on your connection speed.] [qt:/wp-content/uploads/P1030185.MOV 320 256]