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New England Vacation 2010

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Melissa and I just got back on Saturday from a week touring the northeast.  It was a lot of driving, but still a fun trip. Among our stops: Steamtown Mall (Scranton, PA) Freedom Trail (historic sites in Boston, MA) Prudential Tower (Boston, MA) Fenway Park (Boston, MA) for the 6/20 Dodgers-Red Sox game At least 6-8 ...

Giving Twitter a shot

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

I created a Twitter account a while back to follow a few people I know, but I never really got into it myself because of Facebook.  I'm going to give it another go-round, and this time I'm not protecting my tweets.  Follow me at @jfw3i if you're so inclined.  You'll ...

CauseWorld: Make your shopping count

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I'm back from the dead again, I know. I thought I'd use this platform, for whatever it's worth, to mention a new app that's been released for iPhone and Android.  It's called CauseWorld, and here's the basic premise: Corporations pledge to donate money to charities based on your shopping visits to certain ...

Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

It's been nearly three years since the first new studio album from Switchfoot, but Hello Hurricane finally came out this week.  They've been busy touring, recording, dropping their record label, and working on side projects.  Frontman Jon Foreman released a series of solo albums for each season between 2007 and ...

An Atlanta Braves-cation

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I think she still enjoyed herself, but Melissa called this past weekend a "Braves-cation." To me, that sounds like a lot of fun, and it definitely was. She was right that our trip to Atlanta over the weekend was very Braves-centric.  We only went to one game, the Friday night ...