Unruly Rambling - alex tag

Alex's first laptop

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:59:39 GMT

Thanks to Alex's grandparents, my parents, Alex received his first laptop as a Christmas present. It was nearly the perfect gift but it needed one additional tweak in order to fit in at our house. Can you guess what that tweak was?

Hint: One of the stickers is new.

Alex on KSDK Web Nursery

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:02:02 GMT

After Growing Family came into our room at the hospital and took Alex's picture, they asked us to sign a release form to put his picture on the KSDK Web Nursery. Now, 3 months later, I see it has finally appeared on their website. I guess they update their site as frequently as I post blog entries these days :) Anyway, we Tivo'd the news for 2 months and eventually gave up since it appeared that they discontinued this feature. Low and behold, it came back and Alexander Michael is on the silver screen.

See his video here(he is towards the end on the left hand page).

My hiatus

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:40:58 GMT

Well it has been a long while since I last posted a blog entry, 54 days to be exact. A lot has happened in that timeframe. On a technical level, I'm in the process of dumping my current website which is written as a model 1 JSP app and moving over to Tapestry. I have the shell created but the hard work is still to come. I think I'm going to scale it back since most of the pages that are currently out there are not even interesting to me :)

On the Ruby front, I've been involved with the St Louis Ruby User Group for about 3 months now. The 3rd formal meeting is tonight. Hopefully I'll have more time to dive in soon.

On a personal level, our first child, Alex, was born June 1st so the past 4 weeks have been a whirlwind. It is an awesome experience but very time consuming. Things like learning Ruby and redesigning my site have been put on the back burner. Hopefully now that Alex is sleeping more I will have additional spare time to work on those things. Fall/Winter have always been my most productive seasons anyway since summer tends to be nonstop.