Christmas is upon us and I have the special privilege of having a birthday in December to go along with the day of festivities near the end of the month. Even now that I approach my tri-decade celebration I find there is still the excitement of getting gifts. As time has gone on, I find that I rely on getting presents from other people less and less and use this time of year to indulge myself with whatever whim strikes me. Last year I got myself one of my favorite gifts ever, a ReplayTV. Yea...

I'm a genX'er. I could never really tell if I was too old or too young to be one, but I consider my self a genX'er because that's what they (Media, parents, elders..) referred to when describing issues about the people I was interested in that were close to my age when I was growing up. One of the traits that was observed to be “genX” was a short attention span. The trait was attributed to the cable network MTV that sucked you in with 5 minute montages of images set to pop music but quickly sent...

I have a cool job. For about a year now I've been a Technical Support Representative. The program I support is newer to the company I work for, as they made their name on a really powerful program that is still considered the standard to do what it does, and then created this smaller program that really hasn't done much until about a year ago when they changed to a service model instead of a product model. (Yes I'm being dodgy because I like my job and want to keep it. This article does not have...

Well this is my first blog, my first article, and so there it is.