Where I'm blogging about technology...Simplicity²

So I started a new blog related to technology and simplifying your life and work. It's called Simplicity² and the idea is that things are never simple enough, and more often than not it's that little extra that makes the simplicity exponentially better. It's what we in I.T. should be striving for.

Please check it out (and comment like crazy) at www.simplicitysquared.com

Thanks.

Are we turning to go home or are we going to do something fun?

Sweet words, and arguably what you don't want to here when you are out on a jog and your kids are on their bicycles. But a good reminder that while in theory jogging with your kids is a good idea, and represents some "bonding", if they are just following along it's somewhat less-so...

So I didn't turn home, although it was one of my first runs with my new running shoes and my legs were sore (not to mention I haven't really run in a long, long time). We instead went to the park where there is a ramp that they like to go up and down on their bikes. I sprinted across the field, beating them, and then they went up and down a few times. All-in-all a nice way to spend 30 minutes. And at least I got some real exercise....

This blog is switching to a different theme...

Wow it's been a long time.

And I never finished updating my Peru trip log. Suffice to say it was a great, great trip. I still have some photos to go through; that's that paradox of going digital...you are less discretionary with the number of pictures you take. So you have more to process after the fact. I think it's because:

1. It's easy to just hold the button down.

2. You "feel" more professional when you shoot a few in a row

3. You turn on bracketing arbitrarily so then you must take lots of shots. You justify it by saying you want to HDR everything, but you don't.

4. You are fearful of not getting that perfect smile or having somebody's eyes closed on your shot.

So you take too many shots, which means there are more to go through and edit or delete. And you haven't started deleting photographs until recently because you have pack-rat syndrome. There's a pattern here.

In any case, I'm working towards real-time management of my photos (of everything in my life frankly), but I'm starting to digress. Those thoughts are for another blog (coming soon).

Which is the whole point of this posting. I've hesitated to post certain things because I didn't want to co-mingle tech with productivity with fatherhood, so everything has suffered.

So this blog is going to focus exclusively on parenthood and its [mostly] joys. That way I'll have a safe place to capture everything (and safe means strictly technical, I know enough to know that there is really no "safe" place on the Internet). I will add one or two more postings here to point to a company I've started and consequently some new blogs...

Onwards...