I live near Atlanta, work in IT, build iOS apps, fly small airplanes, and try to read good books. Occasionally I write some of it down.

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  1. My First Year as a Private Pilot August 18th, 2026. 93 degrees. In an airplane with no air conditioning. Anxiety running sky-high. I passed my private pilot checkride, and began a new chapter in my life. Not li...
  2. Continuous Deployment of Jigsaw Blog to Digital Ocean Droplet Using Bitbucket Pipelines Well, after my last post about updating my Jekyll blog, I got on a roll and went ahead and ported my blog over to Jigsaw. Like I mentioned in that post, I’ve enjoyed Jekyll, and I...
  3. New Blog Design I've been tweaking my blog a lot lately, due to several factors. I've enjoyed using Jekyll for the past year (and Octopress, which is based on Jekyll, for years before that). Howev...
  4. Oliver Jeffers Book Signing It's no secret that I love children's books. I can't recall a time when I've been to an author book signing event, and tonight we had the unique opportunity to see Oliver Jeffers....
  5. Panic Shouldn't Do Upgrade Pricing Earlier today, Dan Counsell wrote: The main reason Panic went with no upgrade pricing is because the Mac App Store still has no way of doing paid upgrades. If the Mac App Store...
  6. Owen's Super PID Our son Owen has a blood disorder called thalassemia. One thing this means is that he must be on a chelator drug to help his body get rid of iron. He is on Desferal, which is admin...
  7. Side Project - Kids Books Having two kids, ages 6 and 2, I've made regular visits to the library in the past couple of years. I like to track certain things in my life. Not to a crazy extent, but I guess I...
  8. Blog Moved to Jekyll I've spent some free time over this holiday weekend moving my blog over to Jekyll. I've wanted to move my blog some something else for a while, since Octopress is practically out o...