Over the past week a dear friend of mine has been in town from Santa Cruz, California. My friend, Erikson, grew up here in Chicago and he introduced me to many of the famous, or not so famous, eating establishments in this city of eating establishments. Most of these places I experienced [...]

Saturday night we had a lovely evening with Ellen and Chris Butler – our friends from this previous post – at the Cozy Love Bungalow (aka our small apartment). Dinner included fish tacos and grilled vegatables along with a nice cheesecake. I hope our food was as tasty as the food Ellen and [...]

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 [...]

After patiently reviewing countless web sites and blogs over the past few days and hearing non-stop praise for the newest kid on the block, I finally received my Flock Developer Preview.  Flock was discussed previously here on the blog.  I plan on having a few pics up on Flickr a little later today.  I, [...]

A few updates today: a little advertising via the Yahoo Publisher Network and RSS via Yahoo! You can find more information about how Yahoo! uses RSS here.
My thoughts on the advertising were: Nothing wrong with monetizing your blog. So, feel free to click on the advertising links because everytime you do [...]

Monday evening started out like any other Monday evening at BW3’s in Lincoln Park. A few friends getting together to watch a couple sporting events while drinking copious amounts of beer and inhaling as many wings as possible.
First out of the box was the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros squaring [...]

This past weekend Rachel and I traveled to Indiana, more specifically, my parents’ lake house just outside of South Milford, Indiana, on beautiful Big Long Lake (see map). We met my sister, Erin, and her husband, Chris, there Friday night. Of course, they brought along my adorable nephew, Cole. Cole is 8 [...]

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 [...]

Ning, the newest darling of the Web 2.0 world, is making its way across blogs and technology news sites. The site itself pegs Ning as
a free online service (or, as we like to call it , a Playground) for building and using social applications. Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to [...]

The blog has taken on a new addition – Weighted Words. Basically, this list produces the most commonly used words in the blog’s published entries. Eash word is then assigned a font based on the relative frequency that word appears as compared to others. For example, if the word “site” occurs more often [...]