My First Year as a Private Pilot
August 18th, 2026. 93 degrees. In an airplane with no air conditioning. Anxiety running sky-high. I passed my private pilot checkride, and began a new chapter in my life. Not like a start-a-new-car...
Writing
63 posts, going back to 2008.
Continuous Deployment of Jigsaw Blog to Digital Ocean Droplet Using Bitbucket Pipelines
Well, after my last post about updating my Jekyll blog, I got on a roll and went ahead and ported my blog over to Jigsaw. Like I mentioned in that post, I’ve enjoyed Jekyll, and I think it is a great...
New Blog Design
I've been tweaking my blog a lot lately, due to several factors. I've enjoyed using Jekyll for the past year (and Octopress, which is based on Jekyll, for years before that). However, I've recently di...
Oliver Jeffers Book Signing
It's no secret that I love children's books. I can't recall a time when I've been to an author book signing event, and tonight we had the unique opportunity to see Oliver Jeffers. Over time we have ch...
Panic Shouldn't Do Upgrade Pricing
Earlier today, Dan Counsell wrote: The main reason Panic went with no upgrade pricing is because the Mac App Store still has no way of doing paid upgrades. If the Mac App Store didn’t exist then I...
Owen's Super PID
Our son Owen has a blood disorder called thalassemia. One thing this means is that he must be on a chelator drug to help his body get rid of iron. He is on Desferal, which is administered via a subcut...
Side Project - Kids Books
Having two kids, ages 6 and 2, I've made regular visits to the library in the past couple of years. I like to track certain things in my life. Not to a crazy extent, but I guess I just like data. As w...
Blog Moved to Jekyll
I've spent some free time over this holiday weekend moving my blog over to Jekyll. I've wanted to move my blog some something else for a while, since Octopress is practically out of active development...
GTRI Day at Six Flags
Yesterday my employer had its Family Picnic Day at Six Flags. This is a great way for all the families to get together and have fun without having to spend much money ourselves. We enjoy spending time...
Focused Work
There has been some discussion lately on some podcasts lately about how we can be the most productive in our work. I've recently made some intentional changes in these areas, and hearing these convers...
Easy Grade for Mac Released
Easy Grade on iOS has been doing great for the past couple of years, and now I'm happy to announce that I've just released the Mac version of Easy Grade. Why the Mac, you say? There are a number of re...
Sometimes Freemium Works
Looking at the variety of ways to make money in the App Store is always a fascinating discussing to me. In Freemium is hard, Marco reflects on Shuveb Hussain's experiment with taking a paid app freemi...
Problems With the Scribd iPhone App as an Audiobook Player
I have a moderate commute (moderate for Atlanta standards), so I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks. I found out recently that Scribd offers a fairly large selection of audiobooks for a reason...
Making Free/Busy Work in a Hybrid Exchange Environment
Over the last month or so at my day job, we ran into an unnecessarily tricky scenario trying to get free/busy working between our on-premises Exchange environment and a federated hybrid environment. M...
Minimizing Twitter
Life has changed a lot for me recently, this being the best example of that. I've thought a lot about what is actually important to me, and how I spend my time. Even though I wouldn't consider myself...
Books I Read in 2014
I didn't make a blog post about the books I read in 2013, probably because I only read 8 books (see my Goodreads profile.) 2013 was also a hectic year - I should have blogged about that, but in short,...