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While I was hanging out with my Dad last week I had the opportunity of totally vegging out in front of his huge TV in the basement. Sigh, once again I am reminded that all of my relatives and inlaws have bigger TVs than I do… Eventually I’ll probably buy some giant flat screen TV, […]

As promised (or threatened), I’ve bundled up my Worldtime Wordpress widget.
Click here to download.
From the readme.txt file.
Description

Adds a sidebar widget to show current time and date of three places of your choice.
Installation Instructions

Unzip the archive and upload peworldtime.php to your Wordpress plugins directory.
Browse to Plugins>Worldtime and click Activate.
Browse to Presentation>Sidebar Widgets
Drag the PE Worldtime widget […]

The night before a trip is always filled with stress and excitement for me. But as I prepare to return home to bury and bid farewell to another grandparent, I am also filled with lamentations. It’s only been about 6 months since the last time I did this, and that was quite a heart wrenching […]

After recovering from a pretty bad morning yesterday, I did the thing that comes naturally to me, I started writing code! I decided to widgetize my sidebar on the blog here. Setting up for the widget plugin was pretty easy and in the process I discovered some nasty stuff that was going on when my […]

Heh heh, I can’t speak Japanese very well, but I do know computer! One of the fun things about my job is all of the puzzles I get to solve. Right now I’m working on a project that has forced me to use VBA in order to create a very smart Excel spreadsheet. After the […]

I wouldn’t call it an epiphany exactly, but on the way to work today I shifted a bunch of puzzle pieces in my mind and came up with a slightly disturbing result. My wife, the I’m not Gonna Blog WillowBrow, has been reading I Say a Little Prayer which just came out. Just prior to […]

Is life imitating anime? On the way home I saw a young woman on State Street whose short black hair had been dyed blue. She was dressed in a short turquoise skirt and grey stockings that had a look of grunge and goth to them. All in all, a nice combination, so kudos to you! […]

I still can hardly believe it, but I was up until 2am battling it out in Final Fantasy XI. I’d been soloing a lot lately, but out in Selbina after a tourism run to Mhaura I realized that I was not going to get any further without some help. Since there were a lot of […]

Okay, I saw the Chicago Sun-Times headline for this this morning, so I took a look on the web. In a nutshell, I think this is really only interesting because it involves young attractive women behaving badly, and there are pictures! So expect to see this all over the news. Yes, hazing, taken to extremes, […]

Well, looks like my attempt to rationalize skipping Otakon this year has failed! After determining that the source of my darkening mood today was rooted in part in having cancelled my hotel reservation, I decided that I would go after all. So I got a reservation at the hotel outside of Baltimore that I stayed […]

It’s been a week since ACEN 2006 started and now I bid it a fond farewell. One thing I’ve noticed this year is that it seems that there is a lot more after-con interaction going on. The ACEN forums are still fairly active and there seems to be a thriving year round community there. As […]

My dad, whom I sometimes consider to be an older version of me, is visiting us this weekend! I was worried yesterday about the timing of his arrival, but it all worked out. So we were able to take him along to World Language Fair at the kids’ school last night. Whenever my relatives or […]

I’ll probably write more later, but another Anime Central is in the books. This was my third ACEN, and overall, I would say its the best one yet. The ACEN staff did a great job, and the Hyatt Regency staff were just fantastic. The only real bumps were mostly of my own making, but still […]

This past weekend my church had its first retreat in about 3 years. A lot has happened and a lot has changed since the last retreat, so it was nice to get to know the newer people and the new pastors a bit better. One of our traditions is a Saturday night talent show during […]

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Immigrant Protest scheduled for today and all of the contradictions and conflicts embodied in it. I’m pretty sure that most Latinos in the U.S. and most immigrants in general, are a little uncomfortable to be tied to illegal immigration. I don’t think that anyone, even the illegal immigrants […]