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26.2

Yes­ter­day I com­pleted the Colum­bus Marathon — my first 26.2 mile run.  Even bet­ter I got to share the expe­ri­ence with my best friend, my wife Colleen, who was there with me for every step.  It has been a long jour­ney for us.  Just over a 1 1/2 years ago, we decided to start running. […]

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The 1982 World’s Fair

Recently I have been see­ing a lot of news about the splen­dor and spec­ta­cle that is the 2010 World’s Fair in Shang­hai, China. This event is expected to attract between 70 and 100 mil­lion vis­i­tors, as coun­tries, busi­nesses, and entre­pre­neurs from around the world seek to gain access to the rapidly grow­ing Chi­nese mar­kets. Well […]

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The Talking Blog

My kids watch a car­toon on PBS about a talk­ing dog named Martha.  It turns out the dog ate some alpha­bet soup and through the magic of tele­vi­sion, learned how to speak Eng­lish.  How­ever, to the dis­may of my chil­dren, this post is about talk­ing blogs — not dogs. Thanks to Buz­zVoice, my blog can talk. […]

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Making The Cut

Sun­day morn­ing, and time for me, Chef Daddy, to make a pan­cake break­fast for the kid­dos. With lit­tle ones, one of the chal­lenges of pan­cakes is cut­ting them up in smaller pieces so the kids can eat them with­out mak­ing a mess. Truth be told I like them that way too. Here is a simple […]

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Bring Google Fiber to Dayton

Google is look­ing to con­duct an exper­i­ment where they  will pro­vide ultra high speed broad­band inter­net to a com­mu­nity in the United States.  Here in Day­ton, a group has orga­nized a cam­paign to bring this project to Day­ton.  I love the idea, and thought I would do my part to sup­port the cause.  The group, […]

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Death by PowerPoint

Did you know that fear of pub­lic speak­ing ranks above fear of death.  Seri­ously the top three fears are pub­lic speak­ing, death, and spi­ders.  Who knew?  Maybe one rea­son we all fear speak­ing in front of peo­ple is that we don’t want to look fool­ish.  Sadly, the use of Pow­er­Point as a pre­sen­ta­tion tool often […]

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Walk The Taj

Atten­tion fam­ily, friends, col­leagues, com­mu­nity mem­bers and gear heads!” On Decem­ber 5th, from 10:00am to 4:00pm you can help the Epilepsy Foun­da­tion of West­ern Ohio by tak­ing a stroll through one of the coolest places in the Miami Val­ley — The Taj Ma Garaj.  Located at 300 S. Perry Street in Day­ton, Ohio the Taj Ma […]

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