How can you get any more patriotic than this? It is my latest design for cafepress merchandise. For those that don't know, cafepress is a service that let's me create designs and then they put them on all kinds of stuff including clothing (t-shirts, jackets, hats), mugs, toys, mousepads, etc. My latest cafepress design is this 4th of July graphic. My shop on cafepress (here) has many different clothing options with this design on it. My favorites are the BBQ apron, the baby's bib, and the infant onesy outfit.

Late yesterday afternoon a dust storm descended on the peaceful city of Phoenix Arizona. These kind of storms seem to occur once every year or so. A photographer at the Arizona Republic got a great picture of this storm approaching. I thought it was pretty cool so I posted it here on the site. Click on "Read More..." to see a larger picture. The building with a domed roof is Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark), home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

L. B. Graham's third book in The Binding Of The Blade series, Shadow In The Deep is his best to date. The series is set in a Tolkien-like world at a time when the evil power, Malek, has begun a massive invasion to try to take over the world. Graham's strength in these books is his ability to create a rich and engaging world that is vast in scope while developing real and exciting characters.

Last week a group of us from work headed over to the F1 Race Factory, an indoor kart racing facility here in Phoenix. These karts are not the same as the little go-karts seen at some amusement parks. These things travel at up to 45 MPH as they race along the 1/4 track full of twists and turns. Take a turn a little too fast an you'll find yourself sliding across the track. Take the turn way too fast and you'll be doing cookies while the other races fly past. If you're looking for some fast paced excitement, this is probably what you're looking for.

Our pool season started today! After waiting through the cold winter months the water tempurature in our pool and the outside temperature were finally high enough and we decided to go swimming in our pool for the first time in 2006. It was fun. If we're going to live in the desert we might as well take advantage of all that sunshine and enjoy ourselves in the water. As you can see from the pictures below the kids are sure having a good time. Even the grown up ones...

Before 1995, as far as the public was concerned, the Internet didn't exist. Sure, Al Gore invented it sometime back in the 60's, but the public wasn't really aware of it until Netscape burst onto the scene with their handly little Navigator. During the intial exposure there were mixed opinions about the future of the WWW and the Internet but it is likely that no one seriously thought it would become what it has become today. Each day millions of websites are updated with fresh content and thousands of brand new websites are published. In the midst of all of this a new business opportunity is emerging. Technically it is called domain monetization.