Ade in Business

It’s a boy!

I’m almost a month late with the news, but I’ll blame it on the lack of sleep and the distraction of diapers and bottles.

We welcomed Jax on October 17th, and he’s been a blast (even if he does have days and nights confused).

On a related note, I was speculating recently with another father about the effect blogging will have on our kids when they grow up. Will kids be surfing the Wayback Machine in middle school computer labs looking for each other’s baby pictures? Is it too much to hope that kids will actually think someone’s cool because their dad blogged about them, and not the other way around?

One of those “I’m still here” blog posts

With apologies to Mr. Palahniuk, I’ve always felt like the first rule of blogging should be, “don’t blog about blogging.” The second rule should be, “don’t blog about blogging.”

Exceptions can be made if you’re a blogging expert, or an author of blogging software. Otherwise, readers don’t want to hear about how you really really promise to start blogging frequently, even though you’ve barely posted in the last few months. Just start doing it, and we’ll believe you.

I know I just broke my own rule. It was in a subtle way though, so it doesn’t really count.

Here are a few of the things I’ve been up to lately, and may or may not blog about in the coming weeks:

• Getting the house ready for my second son, due in about 8 weeks
• Releasing version 2 of a really incredible online form builder
• Working with a great Indianapolis web designer to build the new Recursive Function website
• Getting ready to move down the hall into new offices
• Catching up on episodes of the 2007 World Series of Poker

07/07/07 07:07:07

I couldn’t resist writing this post.

I love number patterns more than I’m willing to admit publicly. Clocks always seem to catch my eye at times like 11:11 or 4:56. I have Monk-like tendencies that prevent me from setting alarms to any “weird” number (minutes 00 or 30 are safe, 45 is OK, but 49 is taboo unless it’s 7:49). I’ll strain to hear the TV just so I don’t have to turn the volume to 17.

Some good friends of mine got married on 04/04/04 (but at 1pm … argh!). 05/05/05 was especially interesting because of its significance as a popular holiday. I was pretty much ready for the world to end during last year’s numerical event.

Today, despite 120°F+ temperatures and rogue shooters, I really really want to be in Las Vegas. (It helps that the World Series of Poker main event is going on right now).

(Oh, to give you a clue as to how weird I can be about this sort of thing … this post is 777 characters long and about 7K of HTML without comments.)

Pseudocoded

I launched a new blog called Pseudocoded. It’s something to express a more silly, creative side.

The idea came to me last week and I decided to just run with it. I’ll keep writing here as well, but I thought the content would be too divergent to mix it with regular posts here.

Enjoy.

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New office space

I’m finally in some new office space, located just south of Castleton mall here in Indianapolis.

I’ve been working on this for the last couple months and it feels so good to finally get settled in. I’ll write more about the process later, but for now you’ll have to settle for pictures:

My desk, in desperate need of some cable management.

An empty desk, awaiting a new owner and some art on the wall.

This is where the interns get to sit.

It’s always time for coffee.

A beautiful view of the parking lot a nature preserve.

Come visit, or just send gifts:

6525 East 82nd Street
Suite 215
Indianapolis, IN 46250
(317) 842-2863