This has been in the works for a bit now, and I'm excited to announce that along with Eli White, Kevin Bruce, and Sandy Smith, we've formed muskeeters.me. We worked well together at our previous venture, that we wanted to keep it going. The new venture will do the usual web consulting, from strategy and planning, systems architecture with an eye on scaling, through design and development.

The day steve jobs died, my mom, who is in the hospital fighting ovarian cancer, came off of a respirator. She couldn't talk, so she used my iPad to type out what she needed.

I like his description of Serenity parenting, it matches how we are trying to raise our two sons. I still think I should make a t-shirt that says "My kid's gonna enjoy soccer wether he likes it or not."

I grew up in the Washington D.C. suburbs after my family moved here in the summer of 1980. Growing up. I played both basketball and baseball, but wasn't really any good at either. Something about needing to have good hand-eye coordination. My first computer was a Texas Instrumetns 99/4a, on which I learned to program in BASIC. Those were the days - 8kb of memory! Later, sometime in the sixth grade I upraded to a Commodore 64. I attended St.

Not that we forgot, but its amazing to think that Nicholas is already one year old.  I'll try to stay away from any cliche in regards to father hood and how quickly children grow up.  A little over one year ago, when he was born, I could not have anticipated how he'd change my life, even though I knew he would.

Patty and I have a deal to run the Cherry Blossom 10 miler together, and another race in Wisconsin in reciprocity. She ran 3.1 miles this morning. Today I ran, according to my treadmill, for 32 minutes, 2.3 miles, and burned 400 calories. Next run is Thursday.

One of the first things I've noticed as a new father is how sensitive I am again to time passing.  After graduating college, my has not been measured in discrete chunks of time like semesters, nor have there been regular events like summer/fall/spring breaks to look forward to as a break in my schedule.  Time was very continuous, between work and the occasional trip or vacation to punctuate the year.  Since we learned we'd be parents, its been back to counting down the days to one milestone or another.  First, it was the trimesters during pregnancy, then the agonizingly

Or, learning to love process/order and prevent chaos

TLC's show Jon & Kate plus Eight has both of us hooked.  We started watching after we learned we were expecting Nicholas, partially in a funny "At least we don't have eight kids" way.  But the show is entertaining, and has given us a couple of clues about being parents that might be helpful down the road.  Nothing super revelatory, but stuff that is good to hear again.

Drinking water can be harmful to smallest babies - Yahoo! News It must drive these researchers crazy to hear what their parents gave to babies, grapes, juices, honey...

Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.

I'm very happy to introduce you to the newest member of our familily, Nicholas Herbert, pictured here taking a nap with his proud dad.  He was born in the early morning hours of April 8th.  Since then he's kept us busy between feedings, diaper changes, and one to two hour cat naps throughout the day.  He's got quite a set of lungs on him, to letlet us know when he's hungry.  Nicholas is also a night owl like me, but hopefully he'll outgrow that soon.