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Today I’m taking the time to modify my template and cleanup things around here.  I must come up with new images for the banner.

In addition to my plan for reading books in the New Year, I’m starting a new reading plan for THE BOOK today. Thanks to the new reading plans launched yesterday by YouVersion. This morning I started the chronological reading plan.

One of my resolutions for 2010 is to read more.  I’ve already finished the first book  and it’s still 2009.  Breaking the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer and David Putman.   It touched on one of the areas that really bugs me.  When someone uses the word relevant, they are usually talking about their personal preferences [...]

Freddie Hubbard died yesterday after having suffered a heart attack the day before Thanksgiving.  I was listening to Freddie on Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil this morning on the bus.  He is the trumpeter that gave me an appreciation for real jazz.  I grew listening to 70 and 80s disco influenced jazz, but in High [...]

My trip to California last week gave me the time I needed to read all of Andy Hunt’s Pragmatic Thinking and Learning.  I was surprised at the number of ideas in the book I was familiar with.

Dreyfus Model
Logo – Seymore Papert
Inner Game
Getting Things Done
Rubber Ducking

It was great to see them all put together in one [...]

Having just re-read The Pragmatic Programmer, I checked out what new books the guys at The Pragmatic Programmers have released recently.  Andy Hunt’s latest Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your “Wetware” really caught my attention.  I read the Chapter excerpt that discusses the Dreyfus Model.  I must pick up this book.  I constantly struggle with [...]

How do you choose the right framework?  I’ve looked at several PHP frameworks and have used several different JavaScript Frameworks.  Is this something to constantly re-evaluate?  Or just stick to the one you’ve become familiar with even when something that looks better comes along?

I have a serious case of T.A.S. (trumpet acquisition syndrome).  I’m currently playing on my first real horn.  It’s a Bach Stradivarius 180-37 that I’ve had for ~25 years.  I abandoned it in college for a LT180 43 25lr.  I loved that horn, but in my post college days I sold it.  Since my comeback [...]

One of the reason’s I’ve neglected by Blog is the amount of SPAM I was getting.  I felt bad every time I opened my admin panel and saw all of the comment SPAM.  So today I finally cleaned it up and hopefully have at least slowed it down some.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed. 

So, I tried to sit in a different seat, but didn’t.  Me and Kathleen always split up in the morning.  I take one of the boys to his class and she takes the other.   The first one done goes and gets us a seat.  This works good if you know about where you’re going to [...]