http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog quality, affordable web design Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:08:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My youngest daughter Sofia can now ride a two wheeler! At 6 years old, she beat both her older sisters by a year. VIVA SOFIA! http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=179 I'm not sure, but I think I'll have to eventually join Facebook. On the plus side it seems to be an easy way to stay in touch with friends and family. It might also help career-wise to try and develop some simple apps for the platform. I don't know - ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=178 I finally ran from my house to my parent's house this weekend, a total of 17.8 miles. Took me a little over 3 hours, which puts me on pace for a marathon time of 4:15 - 4:30 if I decide to go ahead and give it a shot. Here's the ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=177 I just realized something. All my favorite superheroes as a kid embodied some aspect of my self-image. I was a good student so I liked Batman because he was smart. I was a small kid so I liked the Atom. I was pretty fast so I liked the Flash. And ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=176 One of my favorite things about the World Cup is the cool nicknames for the various national teams. Brazil - the Seleção (the Select). Italy - the Azzuri (Sky Blues). Slovenia - the Green Dragons. England - the Three Lions. Australia - the Socceroos. Germany - Die Mannschaft (the Team). ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=175 Forbes has a great infographic showing migration patterns at the county level in the US. The data is from 2008. Looks like everyone from Gloucester County NJ is retiring to Arizona or Florida. Clever use of color as an indicator - red for outbound, black for inbound. Makes it easy ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=174 Hooked up a new backup drive to my home pc and started getting a bunch of "Event ID - 51 - An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation" errors. Kind of tough to debug but here's how I figured out what was going on: 1. Right ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=173 Had a chance to play guitar with some friends this past weekend. There is nothing quite like playing electric guitar nice and loud. Especially when joined by such excellent musicians. Though I feel goofy about playing in front of people at this point in my life, the act of making ... http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=172 This is simultaneously mind-blowing and terrifying. It sounds like the beginning of an apocalyptic sci-fi movie. http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=171 Should I put my funk bona-fides on the line and register for a semester in Professor Bootsy Collins' Funk University? I'm tempted but a little worried that my funkulosity (funkulousness? funkafiediness?) will be found lacking. http://www.ralphworlddesign.com/blog/?p=170