OK, it’s finally up.
The first version of our genealogy website is published, technically completing yet another goal of mine this year — what a busy bee I’ve been!
The last time I looked at my genealogy software was almost two and a half years ago. This past week, I’ve revamped all the source data, cleaned up [...]
It took a couple weeks of planning, but my effort for this year’s pumpkin carving is finally over!
OK, two weeks sounds like a long time, so I should clarify that I thought of and sketched out the idea one afternoon two weeks ago. Today was carving day; just in time for Survivor night and late [...]
MTKeywords is a Movable Type plugin that compiles a list of fairly relevant keywords from the aggregate of the body of an entry, its title, and its comments. While the default purpose of the entry’s Keywords field is to populate the page’s Keywords meta tag, I found that extra data entry field to be most [...]
In contrast to the three months it took me to force myself to complete Anna Karenina, only four days passed before I finished Mark Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — and it only took that long because I forced myself to repeatedly put it down so that I wouldn’t finish it [...]
Billed as one of the greatest love stories in world literature, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina would serve the reader better as two separate novels. The two primary characters — Anna, the beautiful and courtly infidel, and Levin, the introspective recluse — and their supporting cast have such infrequent interaction that I spent the last two-thirds [...]
My teen daughter has been complaining lately that I’m mad at her all the time for just about anything, and that it’s getting both annoying and boring to her. She claims to listen to me, but cites that she has absolutely no idea why I am mad at her.
The sad thing is that she knows [...]
Along the coast of Northern Maui, the curvy, often-one-lane highway winds around tropical homesteads and lush, brightly colored gardens. Just after it winds through Kahakuloa, on the shores of the aptly named Kahakuloa Bay, a small fluorescent green wooden structure beckons passing travelers. Proudly, an equally green, three-foot sandwich board advertises “The Best Banana Bread [...]
On the last day of our Maui trip, we went on a snorkeling excursion that we arranged only a day ahead of time. There were basically two choices of trips to take. Both went to Molokini, and the only decision was whether to then head to Lanai or to “Turtle Town”. Since one of my [...]
