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Having a newborn generally requires a hospital stay of at least 48 hours for basic observation. Of course, for Mommy and Daddy, cabin fever comes quickly.
For me, about the only thing preventing me from going flat-out stir crazy has been my ability to get online via my cell phone connection. Non […]

We are proud to announce the birth of Nathaniel Dennis Wasylik, born at 8:17 pm on Wednesday, December 28.
He arrived with emphasis, weighing in at 9 pounds, 7 ounces, and measuring 22 inches in length.
Mother and son are happy, healthy, and looking forward to coming home in a couple of days. Nate is also […]

Dineen has been having contractions this morning so it looks like we’ll be headed to the hospital.
Other updates will be at the Kid’s Corner blog.

There may be no expression of the Christmas spirit than this one carol:

Joy to the world!
The Lord is come.
Let earth receive her king.
Let every heart
Prepare him room;
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven and nature sing
Joy to the world!
The savior reigns.
Let men their songs employ.
While fields and flood
Rocks, hills, […]

Growing up in Florida, we never had white Christmases, so we had to find or make our beauty elsewhere. Our neighborhood found it in the luminaria, a tradition from the Southwest that founds its warm to other warm climates.
Every Christmas Eve, we would get a bucketful of sand, a stack of paper bags, and […]

I’m not expert enough to form an opinion on whether or not the President’s authorization of warrantless wiretaps is legal or not - and there are some pretty bright minds arguing for pro and con on that point - but legal or not, these actions should be a cause of great alarm to all those […]

I’m in what seems to be a tiny minority when I say that I use Kinja as my primary newsfeed reader. I’ve preferred it to other methods for a few reasons.
First, I like that it’s web-based. I read weblogs and news sources from at least three different systems: my laptop, my […]

My good friend Tom, guru of all things Apple, has left his job in the non-profit sector to set about on matters that are decidely for profit. Tom is now officially “Open For Business.”
I am available for jobs large and small at rates that are fair and affordable. My partner and […]

The waiting is the hardest part…
When one becomes pregnant, there are two questions that typically need answers. That is, assuming one already knows who the father of one’s baby is. The two questions are:

Are we really pregnant?
When is the baby due?

The first question is the easiest. In my case, the answer is a […]

It’s a sign of the times when even your Christmas tree ornaments are at war.

Remember how President Bush cut funding for the New Orleans levees because he doesn’t care about black people? Turns out the levees were built exactly to design specifications:
After pulling and measuring the pilings, officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressed a measure of relief, since the Corps was responsible for ensuring the construction […]

St. Pete Times columnist Sue Carlton writes about Redner and drops this juicy tidbit:
But here’s an ugly fact: We live in a place where being openly gay can be a political liability. That may be in part why some of our local public officials keep that information private when it’s an everyday fact to those […]

If your butcher told you he was vegan, would you doubt him? If your gun shop owner told you he was religiously opposed to killing? How about your rabbi with a deep faith in the messiah Jesus Chirst?
You’d wonder what kind of axe they had to grind.
Now, via Sticks of Fire, […]

When I code up a new web page, I frequently rely on the world’s largest repository of CSS reference materials - tha Intarweb. This evening I was Googling for techniques on using CSS to pin a footer at the bottom of a web page, I stumbled across the following article at, of all godforsaken […]

Doug Thompson at Capitol Hill Blue:
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
The rant allegedly came up during a discussion of proposals to renew the USA Patriot Act.
If true, this rant […]

This week saw some significant revelations in the comedy of errors that we all know as the Xbox360 launch. In the wake of widespread reports of defects in the console, a Chicago man has filed what promises to be a significant class-action products-liability lawsuit against Microsoft.
The proposed class action suit claims that in Microsoft’s […]

Well, not dead, but badly in need of resuscitation from the Northern cold. If you’re planning a trip to Tampa from the wintry climes, here are some ways to make your time more enjoyable.

I said then:
The Photographer’s Rights primer (or “Photographer’s Bust Card”) is making the rounds again thanks to Boing Boing.
I think it’s important to repeat the warning from last year: this card covers only the act of taking the picture and has nothing to do with the photographer’s rights in publishing the picture. […]