I was looking around at portable (external) hard drive options for a while.I have 2 laptops and both our vehicles take USB input for music storage. So I wanted an easy way to transfer files between computers, cart my music around in the car, and of course backup important stuff. (more…)

I recently had a project where I needed to quickly convert long strings of uppercase or lowercase text to Title Casing. Normally I would create a PHP script to do this, but they were all on different pages, so it had to be done manually. Rather than manually retype each, I wanted to create a JavaScript function to manage it. (more…)

As I mentioned in my last post, we just had a baby. It's all going well, he's sleeping and eating fine. And oh yeah, he poops a lot!

I have to say, one of the best purchases we made for the baby was organic diapers. We did the childbirth classes (like Lamaze), and we found out the following lovely pieces of information about disposable diapers:

1. The padding is bleached pulp. It is whitened with chlorine bleach. Urine is full of ammonia. When ammonia and chlorine mix, they produce nitrogen and hydrogen chloride. So that's what's going on in your baby's diaper when he pees!!!
2. The little silicate balls that are put into diapers to absorb liquids work wonderfully at soaking up liquids. They also keep the diaper warm and moist for a long time if it's not changed immediately. Warmth+moisture = breeding ground for yeast, and also if you've got a baby boy the heat can inhibit development… down there. Yes, your super absorbent diapers may result in a super impotent son!

So, due to this, we invested in organic diapers. They're not cheap, but they're reusable, and healthy. We got ours through Quiet Nights, and they recommended the Bamboozle diapers. We're quite happy with them, they seem to be very comfortable!

I'm quite happy to announce that our baby boy was born at 6:07pm on Thursday.

It was a long day, full of… interesting things, such as the anesthesiologist not being able to administer the epidural at first. It took seven tries, apparently they couldn't get the needle through the spine or something. Crazy.

Anyhow, baby Jude was born, 8 pounds 13 ounces, 22 1/2 inches long. Yes, he's a big baby!

Mom and baby are doing just great! Tired, but happy .

This is possibly the coolest idea for a website that I've seen in a long time. I think the reason is that it's more than a website, it's a real service, that will really help people, and it's completely free!! It's called MediClim, and its purpose is to monitor changing weather patterns where you live, and alert you to triggers for the health issues you have!

Here's the link to the weather health warning system, Mediclim.

Apparently the system monitors weather on 14 different indices. It can correlate them currently to five different conditions: asthma, heart disease, migraines, diabetes and arthritis. And I guess they'll continue adding more as the research provides more data.

Let me know what you think of it!