As a personal update, I want to let my readers know that I am going through a bit of change in my life.  Recently I made a change from a full-time employee to being employed part time while filling the rest of my income by web-working.  In this article I would like to talk about [...]

I just read an article about Gmail’s latest outage.  It was the title that caught my eye: “Why you should be glad about Gmail failures.”  As someone who is using Gmail, the title kind of got my proverbial goat.  As it turns out, the article was less about boasting on Gmail’s failures and more about [...]

Today I had the opportunity to interview Brett Barner, blogger from GodlySheep.com.  Let me tell you a bit about what they’ve got going on over there! GodlySheep.com is a blog with a goal of helping churches and individuals.  Well… um… watch the interview and let Brett explain it! You can check out GodlySheep.com and follow [...]

One of the interesting things about the Internet is the sheer amount of information out there.  Sure, there is probably a very small percentage of it that each person is even remotely interested in, or has time to absorb, OR is even a little edifying, but how does one filter out the other stuff?  Well, [...]

Image via Wikipedia The other day I found myself for the first time in a long time separating myself from my laptop and actually curling up with a good book, ProBlogger The Book (thanks for the good read, Darren!).  My wife and I headed to the park on one of the first warm days of [...]

Many people ask me the same question: “How can I start my own blog?” Sometimes another question is also asked: “Which Online blogging service should I use?”  Or “What’s wrong with just keeping a blog on Myspace or Facebook?  Well, hopefully this post will answer these questions for you.  FYI, the answers are my opinion.  [...]

I was just browsing through the posts on lifeofjustin.com and became interested in his post entitled “5 Questions For My Readers.”  In an attempt to get to know a few of his readers better, he asked them several questions: 1. What Is Your Name and Age? 2. Where Do You Live? 3. What Is Your [...]

This week I got anew toy! I picked myself up a Wacom Bamboo Fun – a digital drawing tablet!    In fact, I am actually writing this post with it using handwriting recognition software!  Sure, it takes a bit longer, but it’s a cool experiment AND it’s giving some much needed practice using it! My actual [...]