At last, I have my iPhone syncing my contacts, calendars and email. How? I added Gmail as an Exchange server. How? First, enable Google Sync (you’ll only need to do this if you’re using Google Apps).

After this it’s trivial if you follow the Google help page instructions. Enjoy!

This is Tim O’Brien. He is…a one man band.

After our company Christmas party, and before the after party, Tim and Damien stopped by some bar to demonstrate Tim’s remarkable ability to perform as a one man air band. I especially like the flute and harp.

My mother snapped this photo of her car outside her home in Bellview, Florida (just outside Ocala). Amazing.

I just stumbled across an older blog post at Seth Godin’s blog that included a really great video. It makes me smile.

Seth calls for more guy #3s because it was this fellow that tipped the crowd and created the dance mob. Check it out. I hope it makes you smile too.

San Diego is such a wonderful place to live. I’ve been biking a lot more recently because I’m training for a century bike race. Last week I cycled 93 miles. My long ride was 33 miles. I left from my home in Mission Hills, into Old Town, down the San Diego River to the coast and went North through Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, then La Jolla and La Jolla Shores and into Torrey Pines and then back.

My long rides  are Sunday morning. This week will be a 40+ mile ride. Let me know if you’re interested in joining me. This week I’m heading to Cabrillo.

Tara, my wife, has been hassling me about my tagline not including “husband”. It’s official. I’m a husband.

Distributed open source dad, husband, technology punk and digital viking.

10 years of marriage. 🙂

That’s Tara photobombing MindTouchers: Tim, Damien and Roy.

I picked up a new road bike. I hadn’t planned on it, but my cheap converted mountain bike to road bike required upwards of $250 in repairs, which is how much I paid for it $300+ in repairs and a thousand miles ago. Also, I will be doing a century bike race in April, that’s 100 miles, and figured it was time for an upgrade. I got a very good deal on last year’s model of the Giant Defy 2. It has decent hardware and carbon seat and forks. The difference between this bike and my old bike is night and day.

I put in over 60 miles this week. Here are some photos from my week of biking.

 

Tara and I had planned to have Christmas dinner with my oldest friend, Henry Kikunaga. We’ve been good friends since kindergarten in Morgan Hill, CA.  Over the years he and I have lived all over the states, but never near one another until recently when we some how managed to end up only 8 miles away. He is in Chula Vista and I am in downtown San Diego. Of course, we rarely see one another. He works as hard as I do and he recently had triplets. Yes, triplets.

Alas, our Christmas dinner plans were dashed because my kids were sick and we couldn’t expose the triplets. We did have a wonderful time nonetheless. We visited Mission Bay Park and then later, since we hadn’t planned for Christmas dinner, we ordered dinner from Celadon Thai. It was great, we had duck. It reminded me of “A Christmas Story”.

 

 

The day after Christmas we took the kids to the Zoo. I hope my kids will realize how lucky they are to have Seaworld, the San Diego Zoo and countless parks and beaches within a couple miles from our house.

I love San Diego. It is an idyllic place to raise kids.

Rion was pretending to pose for a school photo at the MindTouch Christmas party. Mark’s comment at Flickr is priceless, but it took me Googling the reference to realize the hilarity of it.

How the hell does Mark know Rascal Flats?