Nobody Listens Anyway

I wrote this on May 11th but never got around to posting it:
We took the kids to Thanksgiving Point yesterday to look at the gardens. They had a great time. Whenever we travel through the Salt Lake area it seems that my wife has a $10 coupon for JCPenny that “would just be [...]

Aubrey’s teacher asked her students to draw a picture of what makes them yawn. Aubrey drew a picture of herself doing homework. I feel the same way.

Listening to the news in the car this morning there are protests in Egypt because the high price of fuel has driven up the cost of grain which has driven up the cost of government subsidized bread. The news story was the first time I had heard the term “Black Market Bread.” As [...]

I have been looking around for a plugin or bit of code that can dump the schema from an existing database into the Ruby on Rails database migration format. The solution is a ‘duh’ moment, and probably obvious to most Rails programmers. All you have to do is change your database.yml file so [...]

Marion is a brilliant funny author. He sits next to me every day so I know that for a fact. I mean a guy that looks like this has to be a great author.
Marion has written a couple of books - Chickens In the Headlights and Bullies in the Headlights. His [...]

The Deseret News writes today, “The Catholic Church has ordered dioceses across the globe not to give information in parish registers to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” This is a very painful blow not only to the LDS church but to genealogists everywhere. For decades the LDS church [...]