About four years ago I wrote a blog post about a company called Lighthouse Catholic Media. I’d had some difficult dealings with them and carried out a threat to describe the details on my blog if they failed to fix things. In an illustration... [Continue Reading]
[View the story "Elizabeth Warren's "Fauxcohantas" problem" on Storify] Elizabeth Warren's "Fauxcohantas" problem ELizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts, was recently embroiled in controversy over... [Continue Reading]
Updated on February 18, 2018: About a year after I wrote the update below, I got myself an Apple Watch Series 1 and never looked back at my Fitbit. Whose band had broken. Twice. I don't wear the watch to bed, but instead let it charge on the bed... [Continue Reading]
At the end of every year there is inevitable cavalcade of articles and posts listing “The Year’s Best of X”, where X is some category of stuff. At the risk of adding to the noise of such writing, I have been inspired to catalog my... [Continue Reading]
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them... [Continue Reading]
On the new social media website Google+, I’ve seen some conversation from people who are discovering Evernote and I thought I’d write about how I’ve come to use it. I’ve written about Evernote before: How to save a web page... [Continue Reading]
Last week, I wrote about my battle with the spam I was getting on my phone via SMS text and the new means that AT&T has given to let us block them. The particular spam I was getting all seemed to come from the same place and I’d been... [Continue Reading]
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... [Continue Reading]
We're here at World's End, which sounds pretty dramatic. In fact, it's a park, part of the private Trustees of the Reservation system of parks. It's in Hingham on an island and peninsula overlooking the Atlantic ocean and Boston harbor. It's... [Continue Reading]
After months of talking about it and making plans for it, we finally went to the New England Aquarium today. Isabella has always been crazy about fish, ever since the days when Melanie would take the 2-year-old Bella to her OB’s office where... [Continue Reading]