Not average
and proud of it!
It was just over five years ago now that I stumbled into something that would set me up for the next stage of my life. Today, that something is gone. Not gone completely but gone from my life.
Back in 2003 I was the stay-at-home dad to two very young children. Things weren’t great financially here [...]
Today was a “sort of” birthday, an “almost” milestone, a “kind of” chronological marker for me. I am now 33.3 years old. That’s one third of a century.
Does that make me old now? Or does it mean I’m warmed up?
These days, we see articles about the “future leaders” in certain industries and they’re typically 25 [...]
‘Tis that time of year when people like to burden themselves with unrealistic expectations and unobtainable goals. If this is you, let me reassure you. It’s not too late!
Hey, the year has only just begun. It’s not too late to pull out of your journey to disappointment. There is a better way.
It’s rather simple, really. [...]
I’ve been programming for a number of years now and this past Saturday finally got around to taking the Zend certification exam for PHP 5 (PHP is the main language I work in).
And I passed! Woo hoo! So now I can get letters after my name to show that I’m more important that you. [...]
I’m seeing it all the time now. People are posting questions in online forums that could easily be answered with a little thinking or experimenting. But instead of exercising their cognition, the question is thrown to the world in hopes that the answer will effortlessly bounce back.
And that results in an answer but no knowledge.
This [...]
Lately it seems that every other day there’s some new hurdle to get over, some new obstacle to overcome, some new patch of ice to slip on. Just when I feel good about the direction I’m heading, something comes along to slow me down or push me on a tangent. How do we keep going [...]