Check out this story about this highly functioning autistic gentleman in England. It is pretty fascinating.

Congratulations to my Father-in-law who 28 years ago said keeping a family together was more important than his drinking buddies. Today, we are celebrating the 28th anniversary of my Father-in-law’s decision by throwing a party in his honor.

It is an incredible event that set in motion a radical change in his life and then subsequently in the life of his wife and daughters. I believe my wife is who she is because of this decision. When a man chooses his family over himself, the decision has far-reaching effects. I want to be that self-less in my decisions.

Congrats Preston…You are a role-model to me

MurDog

For those of you who use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed readers to gather your news. Here is my list of geeky RSS feeds. This is what I read. It is an XML Page that you can download and upload to your favorite RSS program. There are 46 feeds here. More tech info than you could read even if you were trapped on a deserted island…(one with wi-fi I guess).

If you don’t have any RSS Program, here is a program that I use. RSSReader. It is a simple program that is pretty useful. If you want to give it a try, download it and install it. Then come back to this post and right-click on my list of geeky RSS feeds above and save the file to your desktop. Open RSSReader and click File; then click Import feeds” and then find the XML file you saved to your desktop and double-click it. And then, voila, you have more tech news streaming to you computer than you will know what to do with.

I like it because it goes to the websites I like and gets the articles for me so that I don’t have to surf around everytime I want to sit down with my laptop and read. I like it.

By the way, RSSReader and other RSS Programs can notify you when I post a new blog entry using this address.

MurDog

Xbox 360: seems to be the new name for the next XBOX. I don’t know why I have started posting all these rumors on my blog, but I have started and I don’t see quitting anytime soon. Also, it takes the pressure off trying to have something interesting or witty to say. I can just rely on the unending supply of rumors that stream across my RSS reader.

MurDog Out

Welcome to the middle of winter. Mary Hadley and Wyatt are hacking and coughing, and it doesn’t seem to want to go away. I find myself washing my hands quite a bit in an effort to avoid catching the cold myself. So far, so good.

Poor Wyatt, last night at dinner he ate just a little bit of his food and then asked for some Jell-o. Around here, we take one big bite off the top of the Jell-0 to make room for some frozen whipped topping. I took his spoon and dug out a healthy bite of Jell-o and gave it to him. He looked like a chipmunk with all the Jell-o in his mouth. I dug out a big chunk of frozen whipped topping and put it in the Jell-o.

I looked up and Wyatt still had a mouth full. I told him to chew up the Jell-o and swallow it. Wyatt had a strange look on his face. I told him, “Chew it up buddy and swallow it.” Just about them he threw up on the counter. Then he threw up again, and again, and one more time for good measure. Poor guy.

Megan and I cleaned up the mess and put Wyatt in the tub. He has been ok ever since. Parenthood

MurDog

The good people at Engadget.com just posted this juicy bit of info…

MurDog