Wire Video Clip

If you like circa-1995 BMX freestyle riding, I uploaded a bit of my video to YouTube:

No Tag For You!

Though I didn’t go to Willett (I was a St. John’s kid) this surely is a proud moment for my old hometown: Attleboro elementary school bans tag Officials at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro have banned playground tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chasing games over concerns about the risk of injury and …

New Photos of the Kids

The kids’ websites have been updated with new photos from this summer: Amelia | Jeremy

New Ugly Design

The design of this site has been pretty much the same since I bought the domain in 2000, when I hastily put the site up to help with a job search. I’ve been wanting to redesign for years, and lately wanted to add new features and switch over to PHP. Anyway, I finally decided to …

New Ugly Design

The design of this site has been pretty much the same since I bought the domain in 2000, when I hastily put the site up to help with a job search. I’ve been wanting to redesign for years, and lately wanted to add new features and switch over to PHP. Anyway, I finally decided to …

The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld

The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld (Slate) Until now, the secretary’s poetry has found only a small and skeptical audience: the Pentagon press corps. Every day, Rumsfeld regales reporters with his jazzy, impromptu riffs. Few of them seem to appreciate it. But we should all be listening. Rumsfeld’s poetry is paradoxical: It uses playful language to …

The Ultimate Blog Post

“Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it.” — The Ultimate Blog Post (Lore Sjöberg @ Wired)

Flickr Geotags

Flickr has added a pretty cool feature to their site: geotags let you can point out on a map exactly where you took a photo. (FlickrBlog has all the details.) For example, take my photo of the Zakim Bridge: Under “Additional Information” in the right part of the page it says “Taken in East Cambridge, …

Submariner of the Future?

You might already know that I’m a fan of sidearm & submarine pitchers. Yesterday Jill & I took Amelia to Fenway Park (for her first time) to see “Futures at Fenway”: a doubleheader of Sox minor league teams Lowell Spinners and Pawtucket Red Sox. We only stayed for the Spinners game (who won 3-1), but …