This past week my credit card was (finally) charged for my backing of App.net. Like many others, I got in on the alpha after backing the newest social network on the block, and also like many others I’ve been actively using the service ever since. But I haven’t but heavily active. I still use Twitter […]

I stumbled upon a post by C.C. Chapman that was written entirely in pen, I was curious. Not only was it a great piece, but it was part of Pilot Pen’s initiative called The Power to the Pen! and I became even more curious. I’ve been a fan of Pilot pens for a while, having

The following is a guest post from a new friend of mine, Mark Davidson, who I had the pleasure of meeting through my friend Yukari Peerless. Mark’s a very funny and talented guy, and when I asked him if he’d be willing to write a guest post for me I was stoked when he said

It turns out that when I decided to search for a new e-mail app of choice, that Postbox won out. But I neglected to go into deeper details as to why this was the app I went with. So, to give you a better idea why Postbox isn’t just right for me but also might

This past week or so has been rough. We’ve been through a lot at the Vardy household. The family car broke down while we were out of town, our kitchen was wrecked by fire, and my right hand received second-degree burns fighting said fire. Now there is no debating that I probably wouldn’t have been

This is my first attempt at writing an entry since the fire. I am using mountain lions Mountain Lion’s built-in Dictation feature to write this portion, but what you’ll see below is the tactic I used to write the majority of this post. Any kind of strikers strikethroughs in this paragraph are a result of

Fire is pretty dangerous. Screw that, fire is incredibly dangerous. It deserves your respect. It deserves to be treated with respect because it can change lives in mere seconds. And it certainly changed the lives of the Vardy family yesterday. That’s because yesterday I battled a small kitchen fire in our house. Luckily, no one

My friend Patrick Rhone still has his original iPad. So do I. That may make me one of the latest to get a new iPad, but that’s fine. Right now, my iPad does everything I need it to do…which is more than fine. It’s funny how “the latest” can have multiple meanings. It can mean the