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4 Running Tips

I like to run every day. Here are some of cool things that I have discovered over the years. If you have never used a foam roller you’re missing out. I was having troubles with my lower legs, specifically my achilles was over tight to the point where stretching wasn’t... Read more

Julia is Home!

After two long weeks, Julia was finally discharged from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Thursday May 30th. What a great 2 week birthday gift! The last few days were very busy as all the doctors and therapists were in and out doing their final check ups on... Read more

My Picks for Windows 7 Gadgets

Since Windows 7 was released Microsoft has taken down the live gadget gallery making it harder to find quantity Windows 7 gadgets. I still use Windows 7 as my primary OS and I find the gadgets very handy. Every time I have to do a fresh install I find my... Read more

Julia Baird's Rough Start

On Thursday May 16, 2013 at 4:17pm, Jesse and Teresa Baird became parents to a beautiful baby girl, Julia Michelle Baird. She was 6 pounds and 5 ounces and was 20 inches long. She was born at Covenant Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa. Unfortunately we had a sad turn of events... Read more

Avoid Using Shorthand When Building a CSS Framework

Building a css framework is a bit different than vanilla css. Consider this css block. .box { padding: 5px 10px 5px 15px; } It’s pretty straight forward, there is nothing new here. But if you wanted to override the padding value using shorthand you would have to do something like... Read more

Export your Drupal content to Jekyll using PHP

Just this past week I migrated this blog over to Jekyll from Drupal. I had been using Drupal for the last couple years and I was getting frustrated with how many steps it took to post articles. So I decided to make the switch. Looking that the sparse Jekyll documentation... Read more
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