Riding now on the train to Dublin, watching the Irish countryside with its very green fields and patchwork stone walls, I’m finally rested enough to properly reflect on my week in Ireland and the crazy month before. For a small Pennsylvania company to fly to Ireland, there best be a good reason for it. Our primary goal was to create PhotoBingo, then play a game at FOAF Galway, giving nifty shirts to all involved. Beyond this, our goal was useful conversation: Q&A on other efforts, breakout session brainstorming, table chat on shared topics, and feedback on our own products. Though...

My wife is my hero. There's so many reasons for it, but this morning it's because she figured out how to put the spacebar back on my laptop. Before she came downstairs, I had fumbled for a good twenty minutes, stymied by such a simple mechanical task. When there's work to be done in a stressful time, losing your spacebar is about as frustrating a minor emergency as one can have. It started because my darling cat Chloe has developed a fondness for sitting on my keyboard. While she ignored my wife's Thinkpad for years, something about the soft-springing feel...

Spent most of today adding photo functionality to a client's website so we could display some amazing flood photos, such as this one: Historic Bethlehem Partnership maintains all of these buildings, many of which mean a lot to me, as evidenced by my use of the 1762 Waterworks in the design of Lehigh Valley Storymill as well as the basis for the Storymill logo. Please give what you can. These buildings belong to everyone....