I haven’t posted much here because I seem to spend all my time working. Either work-work, or Subtext work, so my techie blog gets all the Phil-Love.  When I’m not working, I’m spending quality time with Akumi, and y’all know how she gets with her privacy.  ;) This past weekend, we went to Soot Bull Jeep for Tim’s birthday party.  It was a lot of fun, but I think I still prefer Chosun Kalbee. Afterwards, we went to the bar at Figueroa Hotel which was really nice.  They have two sections, one is a tiny little puebla looking thing. The other is...

There’s nothing worse than waking up on game day and realizing you forgot to wash your soccer jersey from last game. *SNIFF* BLEH! Thank god for Febreeze! UPDATE: The Febreeze worked! We won 8 to 1!

Danger Will Robinson!  We have season 2 on DVD and just started watching it last night with the Kangs.  It is darn near impossible to stop!

I started a blog for my soccer team.  Check it out.

Pics like this make me bummed that I couldn’t make it to the Burning Man festival this year. How cool is that? Original pic here.

Walter had a little trouble figuring out how to add my blog to his http://my.yahoo.com/ page.  Being the smart guy he is, he figured it out (which is why he makes the big bucks. I should know, we're a client). For the rest of you, it is really easy to subscribe to my blog in your favorite portal site such as http://my.yahoo.com/ or http://google.com/ig/. Yahoo Login to http://my.yahoo.com/ Click Add Content under the search box. Click Add RSS by URL next to the FIND button. ...

For whatever reasons, I happen to be somewhat well endowed in the forehead region.  My wife (bless her heart) likes to refer my forehead as my Sandwich Compartment. She jokes that I can keep a sandwich in there, maybe even a soda.  When she says this, she mimics the motion of opening up my forehead like a cooler and reaching in to grab a nice delicious sandwich. A while ago we were talking about .NET bloggers in general because we just had dinner with Jeff Atwood.  I showed her Scott Hanselman’s blog as an example of a really really popular .NET blog.  She remarked, Well he must be...

UPDATE: Apparently the video was leaked to YouTube prior to its world premier and has been taken down. You can find the song on Weird Al’s MySpace page. I’ve updated my link. This video from Weird Al Yankovich cracks me up with such lyrical gems like this: The only question I ever thought was hard. Is do I like Kirk? Or do I like Picard? Mad props to Al whose flow could give Eminem a run for his money.  Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube. Beware, the tune is catchy and you might catch yourself singing it later. Via Jason Calacanis. tags: Humor, Funny, Video, Geek, Nerdy

Interesting post on how easy it is to open up a Diebold voting machine.  Security is not realized by trusting the words of some CEO.  Security is obtained via peer review and testing. Even then, real Security is never fully obtained. It is always a matter of degrees.  In this particular case, the thermostat is turned down really really low.

You might have noticed cool little images next to comments in my blog.  For an example check out this comment left by the wife.  If you want an image next to your comments, that is really really easy to set up.  Just go to http://gravatar.com/ and sign up for an account. After you upload a picture (and it gets approved) just post a comment using your email address. My blog will never display your email address! Your little gravatar (globally recognized avatar) will be displayed next to your comments on my blog and any other blog that supports this standard. Note, you don’t...

I wrote about the road trip with my brother here.  Here are some more pictures I just offloaded from my camera.  This is the slideshow that typically would bore you to tears. Click on the pics to see larger versions.  If you are using a browser that supports javascript, you should get a nice effect when you click on the pics.  Despite the instructions, you can click anywhere to close the larger version. My dad's worst fears realized. Beautiful Scenery Friends Forever!   Vegas Baby!

I found out recently that many of my family members and friends who used to read my blog stopped doing so because most of my blog posts were pure gibberish to them.  Apparently not everyone is fascinated by topics such as how many CPU cycles it takes to make a method call in a dynamic language?  Neither are they enthralled by matching HTML with Regular Expressions.  Go figure. And yes, I have tried in the past to explain that my blog has categories and by going to the Day to Day category, you can filter out my geekery.  But many of my friends simply bookmark...