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  • Things are better for my kids

    A theme you hear is how parents want to make sure their kids have all the things they didn’t. I don’t get that. I had everything; my parents gave us lots of toys and good food and everything. Maybe it was being a child of the 70s/80s, when things were pretty plentiful.

    Today I was proud to see my kid Grif riding his bike with his helmet on, while his friends went bare-brained. Growing up, I never wore a helmet, and I rode my bike everywhere. Most of what my kids have I had too, but at least they’re a little wiser.

  • Sabbatical

    So, for my sabbatical rundown of things to do:

    1. Design the icons for the project.
    2. Keep learning wordpress.
    3. Organize the attic, especially all the artwork
    4. ??
  • Textwrangler 3 released

    My favorite text editor just got updated. Woopee!

  • Why I don’t put a link to my website in my clients’ footers

    Because it looks bad. When someone builds your house, they don’t put “built by houses-r-us™”. When someone replaces your roof, maybe they’ll stick a sign in your lawn saying “Roof by roofs-r-us™”, but you’re gonna yank that thing out pretty quickly.

    If people want to know who built my site, they’ll contact the site owner.

  • On teaching

    The best way to teach is to learn with your students.