Author: daveaiello

  • My Site's New Cover Photo

    The gorgeous panoramic photo of Houston Field House that is the cover photo for my site was shot by fellow RPI alumnus Jeff Wadsworth. I want everybody to know that this is his photo, I use it with his permission,…

  • Operation Gadget Relaunches, PedsApps Launches

    Over the past couple of weeks, Kathleen and I have worked together on relaunching OperationGadget.com, which is my technology blog that I started in 2003. We also launched PedsApps.com which will be Kathleen's site that will focus on iPhone and…

  • Replacing a Towel Bar

    The other day my son Jimmy broke this 30-inch polished chrome towel bar that had been holding up towels in our master bathroom for the last seven years. This was not a big deal, but it meant that I had…

  • I Chose a New Theme for DaveAiello.com

    This will probably come as a shock to all of you who have DaveAiello.com as your browser home page, but I decided to choose a new theme for this site when I upgraded the CMS to Movable Type 5.2.2. I'm…

  • There's No Time Like Today to Start Changing Things

    It's time for people in North America and Europe who respect Movable Type to start supporting it again, and tell the web publishing community why it is still a great platform for creating and publishing all sorts of web content….

  • In Memory of Steve Jobs

    I don’t know why, but I was shocked when I heard about Steve Jobs’ death last night.  I think my iPad alerted me five or six minutes after Apple released the announcement.Nobody can put a death this significant in context…

  • My Hockey Season is Over

    I officiated the Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference championship game between New Jersey Institute of Technology and Muhlenberg College on February 27. That was my last game of the 2010-2011 hockey season. I had the opportunity to officiate several other…

  • From Zero iPads to Two

    Kathleen and I had wanted an iPad for a long time. I hadn't purchased one at Christmas because I knew that the original iPad was late in its product life. When the iPad 2 release was imminent, I was…

  • Introducing After6 Services LLC

    After two years working at Six Apart, I was offered the opportunity to take over Movable Type Pro support for the world outside of Japan if I created an independent company. So with a great deal of support and…

  • Swingset: Finished!

    I haven't been keeping up on the status of the swingset lately. I'm sorry if you were depending upon posts to this site to see the progress. The swingset is finished. I finished it back on July 5, and Jimmy…