This one in a series of articles about taking a service vacation to Peru, coordinated by Globe Aware. Heidi and I spent a week in Peru for our 15th anniversary on a service vacation. During the week we took a...

The after work, before dinner bike ride today followed a route I planned out last night, up through the center of the Fells, up and across Stoneham and Wakefield, down through Melrose and back into Malden along the east side...

At NYC Web 2.0 Expo listening to Alex Iskold talk about using Amazon web services to run your web site. The cloud gives you: pay for usage, only pay for what you need automatic scalability, a very tricky problem reliability,...

Ben Galbraith and Dion Almair from Ajaxian are moderating a conversation at NYC Web 2.0 Expo about the future of browsers. Participants in the panel are: Ojen - Google Chrome Brendan - Mozilla Foundation Chris Wilson - platform architect on...

Update: CableJive is selling a universal dock adapter, which gives you standard USB for charging and audio from an iPod or iPhone dock. With the charging cable that comes with the Zune, the CableJive adapter will give you this same...

This one in a series of articles about taking a service vacation to Peru, coordinated by Globe Aware. Over the past few weeks our plan to celebrate 15 years of marriage in Paris has transformed into taking a volunteer vacation....

As part of our Independence Day celebrating this year we took the kids down to see the fireworks on the Charles River in Boston. It was spectacular. I realized while I was there that I want to come back every...

I found this in my inbox today, a few hours after setting up email for my 6-year-old daughter and filling her address book with a handful of trusted family and friends: Thank you for teaching me how to email. I...

Some time ago we had a dinner discussion that got onto the topic of ear sizes. Heidi made some statement about ears being full size early on, or never stopping growing, or some interesting piece of ear trivia that...

The SXSW Conference seems to be coming up on my radar more this year than it ever has in the past. Came up again yesterday when R.E.M. did a show at Stubbs as a part of the conference, which was...