Review: Ptolemy’s Gate

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

The Bartimaeus trilogy: Ptolemy’s Gate
By Jonathan Stroud
Ptolemy’s Gate is the third of the Bartimaus trilogy and while it gives the trilogy a pretty fitting end, it was far from the best of the bunch.  Unlike the first two books, the role of the Djinni Bartimaeus was significantly reduced.  At least the sections of the book [...]

48 hours of RSV

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Last friday, I took Connor into the doctor for what his mother and I suspected was a double ear infection and a bad cold.  What we ended up with was a double ear infection, RSV, and 48 hours in the hospital.
It was a spectacular way to spend a weekend.  From 9:15 am on Friday until [...]

Wordpress 2.1 broken blogroll fix

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I recently upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.1 and quickly found that there are still a few bugs in the code. One of the more obvious ones was that my blogroll was broken. Others have reported the same thing, while others haven’t. This leads me to believe that it is more of [...]

Virgin-ize America

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Richard Branson is known as the wildcat of billionaires. He owns many different companies under the Virgin banner. One such is Virgin Airlines in Europe. Now he wants to come to America under the name Virgin Airlines. The business model is much more sound than that of most of our domestic [...]

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