Every so often, a company changes its API or Application Programming Interface. That’s what allows one application to play nice with another. When a company changes it, it essentially breaks a lot of functionality for another program.

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It may be low-tech, but my trailer hitch was enough to stop a would-be thief cold in his tracks. I was standing about 15 feet away from my car with my back to it and heard “thunk”, and then screaming,”Arrrgh!” I turned around to find a man lying on the ground grasping his shin, one […]

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Adding a guestbook to my site and then hiding the link to it so deep that you’d quit from carpal tunnel syndrome before you ever found it was not such a good idea. So I’ve preserved the comments of the guests that signed and move on…

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And now for something completely different: At a time of national pride and patriotism, the McClelland family brings you a special message from one of the great forefathers of our nation and a true friend of ours…Abe.

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In response to DB who asked about the widget of my Twitter reader: (Which I’ve placed a screen-grab of here so people will know what the heck I’m talking about in the distant future when it may not be on the top-left of my website.) Basically, it’s a custom designed widget using Sprout consisting of a photo of me holding a piece of cardboard and my Twitter feed placed over the top of it. The Sprout widget scrapes my Twitter feed which I update nearly daily.

To create the widget, I took a bunch of…

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More and more I’m counting myself as a fan of Merlin Mann and everything he does.

Phone Guy – Solid State from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.

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I think Adobe’s automatic updater got a bit convoluted lately. Here is a dialog box that appeared while installing Photoshop the other day.

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What an incredible day we had today! Two last-minute dives were an unexpected treat. Last night at dinner I realized that our flight was more than 24 hours away and I could dive again today. As for Lisa, she was dived out. Too bad: she missed a doozy.

As Lisa and the kids slept, Jojo the dolphin, a local regular, paid a surprise visit to

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Thanks, Ryan for pointing out this mid-1960’s glimpse of what technology would be like in the year 1999. Starring a young Wink Martindale, this excerpt from a 1967 Philco-Ford production anticipated the way a stay-at-home mom of the future would engage in “fingertip-shopping” (now known as online shopping,) while the dad used his electronic correspondence machine (can you say Email?) Snopes.com confirms this is real by the way.

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