It’s been some time since my last blog post. I’ve spent the last few weeks working on a project I’ve wanted to accomplish for a while, which is to move this website from the old content management system, Expression Engine, to WordPress. The reasons for the move are varied, but among them are the fact [...]
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Would you give up some privacy for lower premiums?
So the Progressive insurance company has a new product that lets you earn a discount by plugging in a little dongle to your car that reports on your driving habits. It raises some interesting questions about how much privacy we’re willing to give up, not to the government, but to a corporation. At first, it’s [...]
My Ikea hack mail rack and charging station
Ever since I saw this Ikea hack mail rack linked at Lifehacker.com back in February, I knew I wanted to build one for myself. (In case you don’t know what an Ikea hack is, it’s the combination of various products purchased at the giant discount-price Swedish home decor retailer, Ikea, in unexpected or unintended ways. [...]
…And we’re back
Has it really been since the beginning of May since I wrote a post? Sorry about that. It’s just that I so often say what I want with a paragraph or two on Facebook or Google+ or a sentence or two on Twitter that writing a whole blog post seems excessive and redundant. Not to [...]
They should have had a Lifehammer in Logan, Utah
Perhaps you’ve heard the news story out of Utah about the car with a dad and three kids that flipped into an icy river. Eight men in passing cars leapt into the river to rescue them, including one man who shot out a window with his handgun and another who had a knife to cut [...]
My Day In and Out of the Jury Box
That was … interesting. I had jury duty on Monday in a district court. It’s my third time in the past 15 years or so and in none of them was I actually impaneled. I arrived at the courthouse at 8:30am as per the instructions and we were ushered into a small library with room [...]
The Butterfly Place
As I’m on vacation this week, we decided to take the kids on a day trip yesterday. As few weeks ago, the Get My Perks website, a Groupon clone, offered a deal for The Butterfly Place, a small family-run butterfly house about an hour away in Westford, MA. The kids love butterflies, especially Isabella, and [...]
10 Years of Bettnet.com
Yesterday, July 3, marked the 10th anniversary of this blog, Bettnet.com. I began on July 3, 2001, 2 months before 9/11 and 6 months before the Church’s “9/11” of the big explosion of the clergy sex-abuse scandal. The first six years of my blog were marked by lots of personal commentary and news analysis of [...]
What car should a growing family buy?
It’s time for our family to start thinking about a new vehicle to transport us around. Our lease is up in February and we want to plan for the future. Unfortunately, the options for large and growing families are limited. For the past four years, Melanie and I have been driving a 2006 Buick Terraza, [...]
Anthony’s Baptism
My son, Anthony Ignatius, was baptized today in our parish of St. Joseph. It was a beautiful sacrament, as always, but the day wasn’t without its challenges. It started yesterday when I got a call from my friend and our former pastor, Fr. Murphy, that he wouldn’t be able to make it today. That was [...]
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