I haven’t updated in a long time, obviously, and I finally got Windows Live Writer working on my Server 2008 installation.  (on my work laptop, natch)

Seems to work pretty well.  It’s still a little clunky, but I like typing on a desktop application better than the MovableType interface.

Brandon Daniel Foertsch was born at 12:30 pm today, weighing 7 lbs 11 oz and is 20.5 inches long.

Mom and baby (and dad) are fine, but all are tired.  We’ve taken lots of pictures, and once we all get some rest, I’ll post some.

Gah. I haven’t kept this blog updated nearly as much as I wanted to when I started it.  Here’s what’s been going on:

The baby has “dropped” inside Lori Ann, which the books say is normal around this time.  The doctor says that she’s still on track for her due date, though (September 8).  Lori [...]

I now have an iPhone 3G.  6 hours invested in the process of obtaining one.  Finally, Apple & AT&T have figured out the little “tricks” to get accounts activated.

I have to admit, it’s pretty cool.  Apple does a user interface (and hardware) better than pretty much anyone in the business.  I’m not an Apple [...]

I drove by the 59 store, looked at the line, and decided I didn’t want to wait in the heat.  Same thing at the Kirby store.

So, I went downtown to the Allen Center store, waited for a while, and then found out that the store was completely sold out.  People in the front of [...]

…that gets your attention because of its brilliance.  And, I love those moments.

Now, I’ve been into electronic dance music for a long time now (since early college days, even late high school), and I pretty much spent my college years behind turntables DJing at radio stations, clubs, parties, etc.  But, even though I still [...]

Lori Ann and I decided to buy a DSLR camera as an anniversary gift to ourselves.  (We celebrate our 5 year anniversary this Saturday.)  We’ve always wanted a nice camera, I’ve always wanted to learn how to take good pictures, and with the baby on the way, we figured it was time to take the [...]

And it was.  Slept in late, did stuff around the house, hung out with friends and my brother’s family, geeked out at computer stores, played with computers at home.

A gigabit router sure makes it faster to talk to the home server.  I also installed Power Pack 1 RC for Windows Home Server.  Seems to [...]

I’m now sitting in a new house.  Yes, house–my company now has 3 houses in the Montrose area of Houston that we all work in.  They’re beautiful old houses, turn-of-the-century, that have all been recently restored to become office space.

I don’t have my own office, but it’s not that bad–when you’re developing code, [...]

I was there.  Didn’t drive (much), though.

Why not?  Well, I was privileged to attend the instructor training school.  More like a boot camp than a school, but in a very good way.  I always thought that instructing would be easy.  Well, maybe not “easy”, but I thought that I’d be instantly good at it, [...]