How to visit Boston’s museums with your family on a budget
One of the benefits of homeschooling is the ability to be flexible, not just in how you spend your time at home, but in being able to go beyond the classroom to experience what you’re learning about up close, especially when you live in a cultural, historical, and scientific mecca like Boston. While schools acknowledge […]
Mac software I use: Geektool releases your inner geek
I recently posted a screenshot of my MacBook Pro’s desktop on the Google+ community for the Mac Power Users podcast. Someone had been asking for people to post the image and list the menubar apps they had running. But I got several people asking me about the Geektool stuff visible on the desktop. Geektool is […]
Bread and circuses, birth control and burgers
Why employers? That’s been a thought that has come back to me again and again ever since President Obama first proposed his Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Why should employers be required to pay for health care? Health insurance is an historical quirk. When you think about it, it’s strange that we require our employers pay […]
Book Review: The Martian, by Andy Weir
On the sixth day of the third manned mission to Mars everything went wrong. A planned 30-day mission was cut short and while everyone was rushing to the spaceship to escape disaster, one man was left behind, thought to be killed, and now left to figure out for himself how to survive until he can […]
What Catholic parishes need is an event/ministry registration and payment system
Because of my work in new media for the Church, especially as I have advised parishes in the past on various tech tools to use, I sometimes get asked by developers who wish to put their skills at the service of the Kingdom of God what kind of technology solutions parishes need. I’m afraid that […]
Automating your Mac with Keyboard Maestro
As regular readers will know, I’m a big fan of automation; specifically I’m a fan of automating my computer to streamline my workflows for efficiency. One of the newer tools I’m using on my Mac is Keyboard Maestro. I’d originally used KM years ago and gave it up because of its then-limited functionality. It automated […]
Why I love Shorpy and you might too
I don’t know exactly what it is about Shorpy that draws me in so much. Shorpy[1] is a self-proclaimed historical photo archive, a website that’s been around since at least February 2007, each day posting a public domain, high-resolution historical photograh. One day it could be a photo of a building from the 1930s, the […]
Book Review and Giveaway: Win a copy of The Little Oratory: A Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home
Update: We have a winner! Congratulations to Maureen Hallagan. You should receive your book soon and I hope you enjoy it. If you didn’t win and you’d like your own copy, feel free to click on the image of the book cover. Melanie and I will get a little bit of credit from Amazon, which […]
My big news: I’m leaving my job
So this is big news. In the coming weeks – we’re working on the exact timing– I will be leaving my position with the Archdiocese of Boston as Creative Director of New Media and Producer of The Good Catholic Life radio program. In the near future I will be taking a new position as Communications […]
Wearing the Cape is a Great New Book Series
At the beginning of the year, Fr. Roderick Vonhögen of SQPN in his podcast “Geekpriest” recommended a new ebook he’d picked up on Amazon called “Wearing the Cape – The Beginning”. It was a free Kindle book that gave the reader the first 13 chapters gratis, enough to pull you into the story and spend […]