I just need to make a quick endorsement for a tool I’ve been using on this blog for the past several months. The product, Akismet, is an add-on to WordPress that blocks comment and trackback spam. If the sign of an effective spam-blocking tool is that you can install it and then forget about it, [...]

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This just in! As of an hour ago, our Christmas lights are up and shining bright, and they just might look familiar! Anyway, we’ve started a new album in our gallery to collect our photos from the holidays.
Adventure Gallery: Holidays

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I think Jen would agree that this was probably the best Thanksgiving dinner that we’ve prepared to date. We planned the meal so we could enjoy it together after Evan had gone to sleep for the night, and everything — including Evan not waking up! — turned out almost perfectly. We got an 8 lb. [...]

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Just a quick “Happy Thanksgiving” to our friends and family out there. We’re celebrating at home this year and planning a traditional turkey dinner. Jen even made a homemade apple pie that looks delicious!

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Most of you know that for many years I have maintained a website dedicated to Oregon’s exploding whale incident, which happened on November 12, 1970. I started the site while I was in grad school at the UofO. In late 1999, the site was moved to our personal domain, hackstadt.com, where it has resided since. [...]

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I’ve posted a series of albums in our photo gallery featuring a small selection of what I consider to be my good or interesting photos from each year starting in 2002. Each album has less than 10 photos.
Adventure Gallery: Best Photos

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In our ongoing overhaul of hackstadt.com, I’ve integrated my Zebras@Play web page into our blog hierarchy. (Notice the “More Pages” section in the sidebar?) In addition, I’ve setup a brand new photo gallery for the Zebra Graphics and Photos Archive. The new gallery allows people to create albums and upload their own zebra photos and [...]

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You know that when Jen has two posts in a row on the blog, something must be up with Steve! (Just kidding, honey! Hahaha.) Anyway, it would seem that my blogging and photo gallery activities have fallen victim to other endeavours as of late. What have I been up to, you ask?

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Today Evan is 3 months old. He has grown so much, and we don’t know where the time has gone. He is developing into a little person more and more each day. Currently, he is very interested in his hands and studies them very carefully. He is also getting very close to turning over. We [...]

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Tonight Gauss returned to his advanced agility class at the Well-Mannered Dog. Gauss has been taking agility classes for about 3 years now and usually takes the hot summers off. This year Gauss was especially happy to return to agility class after the arrival of Evan this summer. He enjoys having some one-on-one time with [...]

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