I'll be offline today traveling to a funeral. Send me an email if you need me and I'll get back to you tonight.

My nightly excercise of saying "drink your milk" 1,000 times is underway.

What's the prevailing wisdom on responding to public RFPs? Is it worth it?

The never ending hunt to post messages in one place and have them show up only once in each place continues... thanks @chrisindallas

As much as I enjoy time with a book or playing with family, not working makes me nervous. Guess that's not great...

Drupal tip: be sure to budget for ongoing support. A Drupal site can live and breath for years - it's not a one off with a 6 month life.

Drupal tip: be conservative in your traffic expectations to avoid over spending on hosting. However, ask marketing daily what they're doing.

Playing airplane with your mouth open with a drooling baby results in someone else spitting straight down your throat. Live and learn.

Drupal tip: avoid taunting or making direct eye contact with Drupal.

Drupal tip: despite elaborate coding achievements make sure you're also producing well written, sane HTML and CSS.

Having a hard time explaining to my daughter why people would be racist.

Drupal tip: use Drupal if you don't want to live in a van down by the river.

Drupal tip: look over the files on your hosting account periodically. Misbehaving backup or imagecache modules can generate thousands of files.

Getting really into dreaming up text parsing ideas and explaining them to my 5 year old daughter.

Ran: about 5 miles in Allen, TX

Telling my father-in-law about the famous and infamous residents of my hometown, Massapequa, NY (http://ping.fm/sGoSJ)

Drupal tip: initiate a comment spam strategy when dev starts. Otherwise you'll have 1000s of comments to delete.

The thing that keeps movies like Hitman from winning awards is lines like "Where I grew up they didn't give names. They gave #s. Mine is 47"

Brushing up on my memorization of the preamble to the constitution via School House Rock. "We the people..."

A great employee of mine given a great job by a great client. I just there are more like him out there!

Writing up my thoughts for a client on custom dev vs Drupal, and use of Kickapps, all from recent experience.

Drupal tip: stress branding and usability benefits of templating to sell the concept to designers and get them onboard

Listening to classical music in the company of my sleeping girls. Thinking about my business, projections, etc.

I Like NY in June as sung by Sinatra stuck in my head and helping me keep my NY accent. How about you...

Drupal tip: show the admin section some love. Simplify, customize, beautify. Site editors will thank you.

Drupal tip: before reading any thick Drupal tomes make visiting drupal.org's best practices (http://ping.fm/VOvjO) a regular habit.

Feedback please on this idea: video rich site for non handy people with no clue how to fix their home or how much it should cost.

Increasingly coming to the realization I'm just plain cheap with my clients money and mine.

Cisco is launching a hosted-software social networking system meant for media companies. I'm not very worried they'll be taking away our business.

Drupal tip: if you're trying to understand the power of taxonomy, think organic information architecture - easily added to and modified as content changes.

Drupal Tip: hang around in the Drupal irc channel. You'll learn, network, build your rep and there are always those who know less and need your help.

Glad the DirecTV guy is late as we forgot he was coming and did productive things today.

Amazed at how complicated installing hardware on Vista is. Ubuntu gets to try better on this dual boot computer. May the best OS win....

Drupal tip: choose functionality based on existing modules instead of functionality and then seeing if you need to build (and pay).

Mother-in-law looked quite surprised I own a tie. Guess I'm taking the whole dress down, I work at home thing to the next level.

Introducing my daughter to Fun Dip