I’ve been itching for this for a long time but never got up the steam to actually go find out how to do it until today. You can type special characters (accented characters, special punctuation, etc.) directly from the keyboard by following this handy guide. (Shift+AltGr means press the Left Shift and Right Alt key [...]

Me: Our family is 50% Mexican. Lovely and Talented Wife: Why do you always have to bring math into it? Me: It’s what I do. Wife: So what do you call your crazy half? Me: It is a strange mix, isn’t it? My Mom is Korean and my Dad’s family is from Norway by way [...]

Dear Son, You lost your first milk tooth today and began a life less deciduous. Congratulations. And thank goodness too because we were beginning to worry when that second row of evil-looking shark teeth appeared. You popped it out while trying to separate two LEGO bricks. LEGO truly is the Toy of Toys. We know [...]

Lovely and Talented Wife: So I texted that thing to her and she texted back “LMAO.” Me: She didn’t though. Wife: LMAO? Me: Yah, her ass is still on. Wife: What…? Me: People read something funny and then maybe they snort or chuckle or even chortle and then write LOL or LMAO. They rarely mean [...]

Demo Girl put together a most excellent screencast yesterday of a free service I created last year called Writer: the internet typewriter. The screencast is a great intro to Writer and its features. Thanks, Demo Girl!

I scanned this card we got from my son yesterday. He’s very sweet and I love him and I love that he made us a card. Still. It haunts me. Move your mouse over the card to see the inside. Yes, the inside seems more frightening… at first. But flip back and forth a few [...]

I just released a new plugin for WordPress for adding footnotes (well, endnotes really) to posts. You can check it out and download it from here: Footnotes Plugin. Also, I’ve written a couple of other plugins you may be interested in.