Daughter: Daddy, why do you give me a bath all the time? Me: Because I love you and I want you to be clean and healthy. Daughter: Aww, I wish you didn’t love me so much. And then I rolled my eyes and washed her hair.

Is a vasectomy a valid gift for your wife? As in, “Happy birthday, doll! I got a vasectomy for you! No more kids, woo hoo!” Bah. Who me kidding? This clearly falls into the “it’s really for both of us so it doesn’t count” loophole. I haven’t, by the way.

My daughter surprised me recently when I called her a kid. She turned to me and said, “You’re a kid. Your parents are your parents and you’re a kid.” You can’t argue with that.

Four-year-old children are aliens. Daughter: Daddy, my finger hurts. I think I need to see the doctor. Me: Where does it hurt? Daughter (points to finger): Here. Me: Does it hurt now? Daughter: No. Me: What do you do to make it hurt? And now, imagine the most bizarre way you could possibly contort your [...]

So I was browsing the Technorati Top 100 and saw Photo Matt, the principal developer of WordPress (the fine blogging software that runs this site), at number three and I was curious so I started clicking through to some of the sites that linked to him. And a lot of the sites are brand new [...]

I just played the Doom 3 demo. Visually, it’s as good as it gets. Although — and I realize they’re going for spooky, claustrophobic atmosphere — I feel that the level design is only so-so. I felt like I was being moved forward on a track. Go through this narrow corridor, go through that door, [...]

It’s free cone day at Dairy Queen, benefiting Children’s Miracle Network.

Saturday we ventured to the beach again, this time to celebrate my niece’s 16th birthday. She was just three years old when I first met her. And now she’s becoming a young woman. The last thirteen years have not “flown by.” They’re filled with countless memories — mostly good, some painful. It feels as though [...]

Recently, my daughter remarked to me, “Daddy, I’m a princess!” And after a brief pause she proudly added, “With pants!” I think she wanted to crystallize the very important point that, although it was true she was wearing pants at that moment, pants in no way detracted from her overall princessness. Her royal qualities were [...]

Firefox PR (Preview Release) is out and it is excellent. The install was very smooth. It’s the first release I can recall where the installation instructions don’t tell you to uninstall your old version first. I installed over my old version (0.9.3) and it worked nearly flawlessly. It even upgraded one of my extensions (and [...]