Tagxedo

by | Nov 2, 2010 | Tech

I heard about Tagxedo.com on Net@Night from the twit.tv network and figured I had to try it.  It is actually pretty neat.  You can plug in different websites, twitter ID’s and search terms to create a neat tag cloud of the words you use....

Dell Support, argh

by | Oct 7, 2010 | Tech

I kind of feel like Jeff Jarvis here complaining about Dell Support, but I guess my issue isn’t near as bad as his was.  Overall I have never had any problems with them and trust me I have dealt with them a lot.  My personal computers have mostly been...

Birthday Dinner number 2

by | Oct 6, 2010 | Family

For dinner tonight I had a tenderloin from Kennedy's. I couldn't quite finish it. I know how Man vs Food feels after eating at Jethro's.  It was probably the best tenderloin I've had before though.

Power Outage Disaster

by | Jul 27, 2010 | Tech

So today at work I faced one of the things you hope you never have, but you are sure you will some day when you least expect it.  For example when your supervisor (IS Director) is supposed to be somewhere in north-central Iowa climbing a hill on a 21 speed, road bike....

Videos of @goldengage

by | Jul 27, 2010 | Family

Gage is our beloved golden retriever that we got on August 8th, 2008 (08-08-08), which was exactly a year before our wedding date.  Many of you have heard this story, but the reason we got him was as a gift of our engagement.  That’s a whole different video, but...

Hands on with the iPad

by | Jul 21, 2010 | Tech

I had the chance to play around with an iPad recently.  The chairman of our company got one and liked it so much, he asked me to set one up for his wife.  It felt like Christmas opening an $800+ Apple package before anyone else got their hands on it, since I...