December 2007

One Hundred Fifty-five Days

The silence is broken


June 2007

Gone camping...

A whole summer’s worth of camping.


Now that's a Father's Day gift

The epic story of how I built a shed.


May 2007

I am my own worst enemy

I pulled the plug (on accident, but pull it I did) on my interenet service.


Cost of living continues to rise

Gas prices are going up, health insurance costs are rising, and apparently so is my subscription cost to Rhapsody Music.


April 2007

Times have changed

Andrew’s hip new school photo shoot.


Sweet 16

Steve and Kristi have been married for sixteen wonderful years.


Game Recap

Recap of an exciting Lacrosse game played last saturday.


News round-up

Catching up on happenings at the Harwards.


Google now reads minds

Google’s new “mind reading” gadget for the Google Desktop.


What's that noise?

My experience of being brought out of a wonderful sleep to meet the cold, hard fact that it was Monday again.


March 2007

Not just any Chocolate

I know the owner of a chocolate making company, but not well enough to get free chocolate.


Just got back from Bryce Canyon

Thoughts and images from my trip to Bryce Canyon in Southeastern Utah.


Counting Pronghorn Antelope

Counting Pronghorn Antelope in Utah’s West Desert


Daylight Savings Time

My opinion on Daylight Savings Time (in a word: bad).


February 2007

Next step in the adventure

The Board of Adjustments grants me my variance. Next…


Noise canceling headphones: A Review

Reviewing the Sony MDR-NC50 noise canceling headphones.


Board of Adjustment hearing scheduled

The public meeting to discuss my variance has been scheduled for February 28th.


My Daughter's First Date

A date with my daughter.


Broken Nose

Andrew breaks his nose.


My official case for variance

As another chapter (paragraph?) in my adventure in adding on to my home, here is the actual proposal I submitted to the city to defend my need for a variance to their zoning ordinance.


The Variance explanation (cont'd)

I continue my explanation of what it takes to get a variance in my town.


The Adventure--part two

Variance: permission to vary from the norm.


Starting an adventure

Starting a new adventure in domestic living.


January 2007

A new boy in the family

News Flash! Sam Harward, father of four beautiful daughters, just added a boy to the clan.


More praises for Textpattern

Where I heap praise on Textpattern and those who created it.


December 2006

Merry Christmas

Just an alternate picture for our family christmas card.


And I was doing so well

Just a bit of nonsense to ease my guilt for not posting for so long.


That's my girl

A short, poorly filmed, home movie of my daughter, Ashlyn, in her Christmas Dance Recital.


Third-party apps for the PocketPC

Here I give a list of third-party applications that I use to make my Windows Mobile handheld device [more] useful.


November 2006

Handheld Devices: Productive? or just a vice?

Are handheld devices useful tools? A way to waste time? Something to cause envy amongst your peers? Maybe a little of all of these. What do you think?


Portable Applications

An alternative to online applications: portable applications that you can fit in your pocket.


Home, sick for the holidays

The sorry state of Thanksgiving amongst the Harward’s this year.


More tweaks

Just documenting, for posterity, the evolution of this brave new site.


A Concert? At your age?

My experience leading up to and at a recent Howard Jones concert


Why I chose Textpattern

My reasoning behind choosing Textpattern over the myriad of other blogging/content management systems out there.


A Thousand Words

Testing the ease of posting a photo. Conclusion: cake. And a very cute picture if I do say so myself.


Subtle Changes

Searching for just that right look. I’m tweaking the parameters of my default style sheet just a little.


Changing server-side software yet again

My search for blogging nirvana.