Baby Update

Someone who randomly pops into our life, says something smart, then disappears for awhile, randomly popped into my life via IM today and asked why we weren’t blogging about the current pregnancy very much. So this one’s for Tara, and anyone else wondering…
It’s not a real big mystery. See we’ve been pregnant for the past [...]

What’s happening to me?

Last week I downloaded some music from Journey.
Yesterday I was strangely driven to download some from Kansas…
Let me be clear, early 80s music has never before appealed to me. Is this some side effect of aging? Does everyone, at some point in their life, find themselves drawn to the music they might have heard while [...]

Found on the back of my coffee cup…

So-called “global warming” is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it!
- Chip Giller

Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 1 - The User Group

We heard a sermon a couple weeks ago about giftedness — about focusing on your primary giftedness, because that’s where God wants to use you most.
Whether I like it or not (and sometimes I don’t) my primary giftedness is technology. Despite everything else I think I am, or wish I was, there will always be [...]

Every day I wake I tell myself a little harmless lie:
The whole wide world is mine

Well its done. The last difficult conversation has been had, so I can share our news with you all. This likely won’t come as a surprise — to those who don’t already know. But its big for us, and its been important to approach it as the massive challenge that it is…
We’re moving back to [...]

BIG RED LETTERS!! SUPERFLUOUS PUNCTUATION!!!1

If my project ships on time, with no casualties — its apparently contributed to a heart attack and a car accident already — then it will be a miracle… and I’ll be really proud of this team.
Who woulda thought that software engineering could be this dangerous?

Warning: Geek Rant - On HD Content Delivery

Last year Apple announced a new product, that we were all expecting, called the AppleTV. When it first came out, there was much celebrating, and this site even got in on some of the action. Then reality set in. Here was a $300 castrated Mac Mini that played video in only one codec and required [...]

Holding my Breath

Today is beta test day for my project. This is where customers actually get to use it against their data and see what they think. Its too late to make any big changes to the code, but this is kind of an indicator of how well the project will be accepted in the market. They’ll [...]

Please don’t stop the music - a Benjamin update from Nicole

Despite having an ear infection for the past 2 months, Benjamin is doing great and still making us laugh.

Since the last big update Ben now has 4 teeth, two on the top, huge ones that look like Chiclets, and two on the bottom. I think some more might be coming in soon. He is walking [...]

I blog, therefore I am?

So its another year of jonandnic.com too. This little of hobby of mine, after only about 7 years, is finally starting to feel like it has a bit of value. I’m not in a terribly literary mood today, but I’m stalling on delivering the rest of the “big changes for 2008″ news until it gets [...]