I am finally ready to release what I alluded to in a previous post. While it’s not the most elegant or refined of web applications it is my own little creation. I’m pretty proud of it in the sense I had to learn JavaScript, a little AJAX and the API for Google [...]

Last night Rachel and I attended the Chicago International Film Festival by way of Nicolas Cage’s new movie The Weather Man.  We were lucky enough to be invited through my friend Erikson’s brother-in-law, Marc Evans, who is a producer with Paramount.  The movie was, to say the least, great.  I have never been a [...]

The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon culminated a weekend of family and fun here in Chicago. Rachel completed the 26.2 mile course that started in Grant Park, wound north to Addison, west to Ashland, south to 35th Street and finally returning to Grant Park in a personal best of 04:02:30. That time gave her [...]

The Company You Keep, a novel by Neil Gordon, is my most recent foray into the literary world. I recently completed the book and thought it worthy of a review – or more likely free publicity. The novel, a clever recitation of events surrounding the radical elements of the 1960’s anti-war movement, is [...]

I have historically had a soft spot for most things science fiction. The most recent manifestation of this quirk has come in the form of Battlestar Galactica – the king of Sci Fi Friday on the Sci Fi Channel. Before you snicker and turn your nose up at the thought of another sci-fi [...]