Several years ago, I got my first paid website design job from a professional wood turner, Mike Mahoney, who happens to be one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. With the help of my older brother, I performed a site redesign for him – updating some content and giving the site a fresh look. He had a paid third party store backend (VeraCart) that was used to manage products and payments, so I just had to skin the static pages and tie them into the cart code. A couple of years later he asked me to come up with …

Just ordered it today (at work). Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz, 7GB RAM, 27″ Display. This setup will be mine in one week. Woohoo! I also just bought Photoshop CS5 Extended (finally). I’ve been hatin’ some of CS3’s limitations. My production level is already on the rise 🙂 One thing I love about the display (besides the 2560×1440 resolution and bright LED backlighting) is the fact that it comes with built in speakers, a camera, microphone and three USB ports. That’s a nice feature set for a monitor. I’m stoked!

Our sweet little 9 month old, Ava, has been the subject of several home videos lately. Mostly from my phone but here are a few.

This week’s writing assignment: Was yours a religious family? Did you attend services together? Were these dress-up affairs? Our family has always been very religious. We’re members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a.k.a. Mormons or LDS. My father comes from a long line of LDS church members, though he is the only active member of his family. My mom was converted as a teenager but it is the principal cause for her being essentially disowned. I’m very proud of the strength both of my parents show in putting God before all else, even family. Our family …

OK, so I’m a week late this time but I’m writing two posts tonight to catch up. Last week’s question asks: How many children do you have? What are their names? How old are they? Aaah, my kids. I love my kids. I’m a fairly young dad and I love that too. Katrina and I have four children. Let me introduce them. ANDERS: Our seven year old. He’s a smarty pants. He’s a creative soul. He’s into trying foods that he’s unsure of. He loves Nutella. He thinks school is too easy. He plays soccer. He’s a sensitive boy. He …

I definitely have a bit of a crush on my iPhone. I’m constantly impressed with all of the things it can do. One of the newest features I tried is using it to create a time-lapse video using the totally free app Gorillacam. With Gorillacam you can choose the intervals between photos as well as how many total photos to take. Due to the auto focus feature on the phone, all of your shots might not be consistent if the subject of the photo changes. There are apps out there that will help you to actually assemble the photos but …

Today’s question: Did you have any friends who went with you all the way from elementary school through high school? Are they still your friends? Just one in particular – Nate Roth. Nate was always a good friend, even in my “finding myself” stages of high school. He moved to New Mexico once or twice but was mostly close by and we spend many a year hanging out. In high school we both hung out with other friends as well but we always got along and had a good time. We mostly went our separate ways since high school but …