“Spring Break is for parents to catch up on their work and for kids to catch up on their playing.”

We decided to take a homeschooling “Spring Break” since we are going on a trip this week. The darlings are not doing any schoolwork and Anna was confused that Mama and Papa were so busy working even though it was Spring Break.  We told her we needed to finish all of our work so that we could go on our trip.  That’s when she came up with this quote.

I have moved a lot of my sites over to Dreamhost and have been pretty satisfied so far. The control panel is very good and you can do some neat one-click installs of popular open-source packages like WordPress.

Today I had my first PHP Gotcha on Dreamhost.

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Here are some clues that it’s time to stop working and spend some time with your darlings.

• You’re on the couch typing away and your daughter climbs up on your shoulders, puts her head next to yours and watches you as you “work”.
• Daughter asks, “Papa, what is ffffp? (PHP)
• The nail in the coffin: Daugher sticks handy object (book, doll, plate of food) in front of computer screen so you can’t see the computer anymore.

Here’s interesting article by Cringley about what might be up Apple’s sleeve regarding its ability to run Windows apps on Mac hardware. [read more...]

About a year ago I switched to using a Mac as my main computer and bought an Apple Powerbook running Mac OS X. It was a homecoming of sorts because when I started my professional career back in 1988 I worked on the original Mac Classic. [read more...]

Dear Papa,

I keep on reading about new web sites and companies that are using something called Web 2.0? What is Web 2.0 and where can I get a copy?

Sincerely, Nate Dayton OH

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“Ask Papa” is my way of commenting on industry buzzwords, trends and events. My objective is to make it a mashup of Dilbert, Despair.com and StrongBad Email (HomeStarRunner.com). In other words, I will probably lose or offend most of my readers.

Even if you don’t get the humor in any of my “Ask Papa” posts I will be sure to include some legitimate links at the end of the articles to help you learn more about the subject.