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New addition to the family

Ben — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:02:38 +0000

So Cora joined the McElroy family here on September 15th. She has excellent lungs and a voracious appetite and weighs in at a nice 7 pounds and 12 oz (now 8 pounds 8 oz). Needless to say this new addition changes everything. Right now its mostly daily routines (like dinner time) and sleep schedules. But Cora’s a keeper and this will definitely be an exciting and rewarding lifetime adventure. I’m enjoying my paid paternity leave and soaking it all in, sleep deprivation and all.

In memorium: Dr. Aubrey Radcliffe

Ben — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:48:31 +0000

Dr. Aubrey Radcliffe. An amazing man. It was an honor to have known and interacted with Dr. Radcliffe. He was a character, and an inspiration. And what a life! Filled with doing good and making the world a better place by his caring for individuals and encouraging them to be better, to reach higher. Thank you for a life well lived.

27th August, 1933 – 26th March, 2009

It’s official

Ben — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:06:52 +0000

It’s official. My wife is expecting, the due date the first part of September. Exciting!

A funny thing happened…

Ben — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:55:09 +0000

So this last week was a bit of a roller-coaster with all sorts of surprise projects and issues popping up on the radar screen. And last Friday as I got back to my office after the last round of meetings, I discovered a message on my phone. A good message. I had just won an iPod Touch.

A while back, Allegra Printing here in Okemos, sent me some marketing material which was for a free download of a whitepaper on print collateral marketing and mailing – which can be a great way, if used intelligently, of helping customers stay informed about your products and services (as Allegra demonstrated to me). Anyway, to download the whitepaper, you were given a unique URL to the download, which entered you to win an iPod touch. So I read the whitepaper and answered a small marketing survey.

And there you go – I had won an iPod Touch. Pretty funny.
So any good apps or games I should get for this thing?

Updated design

Ben — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:19:47 +0000

A new design for my portfolio and a new design for the blog. This has been, unfortunately, too long in coming due to life, work, and a general laziness on my part. I think what finally drove me to finish it up and get the new designs online was a sense of exhaustion from the demands of work – I needed to do something different. Looking at my source code, in particular at my stylesheet for this WordPress theme, I’m sure you’ll note that I’ve done little for that headache of a browser that is Internet Explorer 6. The reasons are quite simple – I wanted to do something beyond catering to the lowest common denominator, something I didn’t have to make design compromises for and also something that could explore the capabilities of modern browsers. I know I’ll probably be revisiting the WordPress theme, as right now it’s a tad to “minimalist” to my taste. Although in webkit-powered browsers you’ll find some nice subtle goodies.

But enough for now. Does it work? Anything messed up and needing fixing? Let me know about it in the comments.