Archived Posts 2006 through 2015

This is an archive of my older blog posts, presented most recent first, for historical interest.

• Random mechanical beauty in google maps (19 August 2015)
• Beardless for the first time in 42 years (7 November 2014)
• Rio! (12 July 2014)
• Analy Cheer Wins 2nd Place at Regional Competition (18 November 2013)
• My Mother’s Childhood Homes (28 October 2013)
• Our Bedroom Garden (5 August 2013)
• Sebastopol’s Oldest Business Burns (14 July 2013)
• The Joys of Gardening (12 May 2013)
• Gardening in Public (30 April 2013)
• Remembering My Mom, Helen Slater Zager (16 April 2013)
• Welcome to Michael’s blog, reborn! (10 April 2013)
• Gregory’s Performance at the Magic Show in Santa Rosa (6 May 2012)
• New Online Courses for Web Designers: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and Mobile (9 February 2012)
• Moving into Town! (18 July 2011)
• Gregory’s Stage Debut: Mask Change (12 April 2010)
• The iPad: Imperfect, But Enough for Me! (29 January 2010)
• Webvanta Financing Closed! (18 December 2009)
• Mose Allison Performs (7 December 2009)
• 10 Years Later: Thoughts on PhotoTablet/Fotiva/Adobe (4 December 2009)
• Webvanta Update (24 October 2009)
• Is Facebook Ready for Business? (20 June 2009)
• A Brief History of the Web, and a Glimpse of Its Future (13 June 2009)
• Adventures in Social Media (17 May 2009)
• Amanda’s Skating Triumph — and Interesting YouTube Behavior (9 April 2009)
• Gregory’s Fire-Eating Debut (5 April 2009)
• Why are Warranty Disclaimers in ALL CAPS? (19 February 2009)
• HP’s Service Disaster (18 February 2009)
• Foxes (16 February 2009)
• Time for Blogging? (14 February 2009)
• The Girl Effect (15 December 2008)
• Webvanta Financing Closed (13 December 2008)
• Webvanta is Live! A Great Solution for Rich Content Sites (26 November 2008)
• Gloom and Doom… But We Will Persevere (13 October 2008)
• Boatless (28 July 2008)
• Startup Camp This Week (7 July 2008)
• Coping with the Information Flood (5 July 2008)
• Our Newest Family Member (2 July 2008)
• A Business Update (30 May 2008)
• Celebrating a Year of Freedom (2 December 2007)
• Ruby on Rails QuickStart Seminar Launched (1 December 2007)
• BoatingSF’s 15 minutes of fame (28 November 2007)
• Tracking the Cosco Busan (11 November 2007)
• Accreditation Helper debuts (25 September 2007)
• Announcing BuildingWebApps.com (3 September 2007)
• Start of a new blog… (31 August 2007)
• Announcing Topaz Web Solutions LLC (20 August 2007)
• Creeping Success of Web Services (13 June 2007)
• Notes from RailsConf 2007 (22 May 2007)
• Web Applications for Service Businesses (19 May 2007)
• Easy text formatting with Textile (2 April 2007)