Major congratulations!

Major congratulations to our friends Dave and Sue who welcomed their newest family member Claire Marie LaFrance Hemstreet (21 inches, 9 lbs, 12 oz.) on Sunday, March 26 at 7:30 am.

Let there be light…

Garage light, more specifically, and there was. I spent the day helping Bernard install five T8 fluorescent fixtures into our garage, and although we’re only 60 percent of the way done, the difference is so striking as to be stunning. The way Erin puts it:...

The return of Brama and Poppers

My parents, aka Brama and Poppers, paid an extended visit to us this morning. After six months or more of one health problem (if not outright catastrophe) after another, it pretty well rocked to see them up and active again. In fact, Poppers and Jonah took a good 45...

iLife ’06 part 2 (iWeb)

I was amazed at just how easy iWeb makes web site creation. And not lousy web site creation, either. (There are already plenty of tools to do that.) iWeb churns out good-looking web sites (albeit using standards non-compliant HTML). I did up the following site in no...

iLife ’06

I received Apple’s iLife ’06 software suite the other day, and I’ve put up a sample web site at http://web.mac.com/tydavison so you can see some of the fruits of my labor. It’s a little web site done in iWeb, and while it’s nothing to get...