I picked up this picture recently from the Apple Store from trying our photobooth. So now I want to start working on add a comic book in my copious free time (when I am not working, sleeping, eating, blogging, podcasting, video podcasting, volunteering, etc).

I attended the Podcasting Expo in Ontario, CA this weekend. I was only able to get a badge for the show floor and not for the conferences because that filled up. The show floor was not all that large. It probably only took a couple of hours to see everything and talk to all those ...

Well, all that promoting that iTunes has been doing for me and the pain that the servers have been going through also led to some good news. For the first time ever, the podcast made the iTunes list of top 100 most subscribed podcasts. I should note that this is only counting one of the ...

If you went to the podcast page of the iTunes Music store today and scrolled down (no, further down, just a little bit further, further, there) to the bottom of the featured podcasts there was the Amateur Traveler Podcast which is my podcast.

I have not updated my blog in over a week because I was in the middle of changing blog tools from iBlog to WordPress. This proved to be much more difficult than I had originally expected. I did not realize how many strange things iBlog had done with the HTML of the pages and with ...

Some of you know about my cousin (second cousin once removed to be precise) Captain Daniel Gade who lost a leg when he was injured in Iraq and have been keeping him in your prayers. Many people have been praying for him. Daniel very nearly died of his injuries. The good news is that Daniel ...

GM’s new offer to allow everyone to buy at the employee discount price seems like a great piece of marketing, but my wife could not help putting together the 10s of thousands of people that GM recently laid off with their offer to treat everyone as an employees. “Thanks, but no thanks”.

Here is a recent voicemail I received from my teenage son Mike. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Friend and co-worker Dave Land introduced me to the concept of Yak shaving Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do… “I want to wax the car today.” “Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I’ll need to buy a ...

In an effort to get into better shape (pear is a shape isn’t it?) I biked the Coyote Creek Trail this afternoon. The trail is 17 miles from San Jose’s Hellyer Park to Anderson Lake in Morgan Hill. 34 miles round trip is a better workout than I usually get. My legs can take that ...