Last month I posted 31 times on this blog. That’s a record in a month for me. I am especially proud of that many posts in the month with only 28 days. Apparently, there is something about February and blogging that I really like. February was my peak blogging month [...]

Today the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416 points (about 3.3 percent). According to the Washington Post the main free fall in the market was “triggered by a technological glitch that caused a backlog of trades to be calculated at nearly the same time.” The story reported that about $600 [...]

What does it mean when your wife sends you this article and says “This is what would happen to you if you lived in China.” China treats Internet ‘addicts’ sternly That makes me sort of scared for what she might have planned.

I just read Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables an autobiography by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer this weekend. The writing is a little quirky and the pacing dragged a little bit in the early chapters, but as the book picked up his stories [...]

I just recently started posting on politics, particularly focusing on politicians use of online media to promote themselves/their causes. For some of my regular readers (all two of you) my interest in politics will come as a shock, but I guess I am trying to integrate (converge) my interests in [...]

This past weekend we found a Nintendo Wii. I’ve been looking for one since Christmas. Looking is probably overstating it, but whenever I was at the local Wal-Mart or electronic stores, I’ve check out their videogame section to see if they have a Wii in stock. On Sunday afternoon, I [...]

The Arkansas Highway Department was forced to close the Arkansas Hwy 7 bridge over the Ouachita River South of Arkadelphia due to flooding on the South side of the river. When they close the bridge during a flood long-time residents enjoy walking out over the river to watch the swift [...]

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette launched a much needed redesign today. The site had some small enhancements over the past year, but desperately needed some major help. I’m sure their web staff is glad to get the redesign monkey off their back and out the door (I’ve experienced that kind of relief [...]

This blog has moved, but you probably won’t really notice if you always went to lanniebyrd.com to read it. If you went to some other address or read the rss feed, then you probably did notice it moved. I switched from having blogger ftp the blog to my host at [...]

I know you probably haven’t seen this, but Veggie Tales is now airing during NBC’s Saturday morning kids show block. NBC’s Program Standards has required them to edit out any reference to God or the Bible to put the show on air. At the same time, NBC is promoting airing [...]