jimramsey’s blog

Got called in for jury duty today. Boo!

If you're using facebook you should add Six Apart's Blog It to your list of Applications. It will let you post to multiple blogs and send status updates to Twitter, etc.

Ellie has been really into the Wiggles lately for some reason. She wasn't that interested in them for a long time but she's started listening to the songs and watching the DVDs again.

From WWDC 07:

BTW, John Hodgman (the PC guy) has contributed some great segments to This American Life.

My favorites:
I'm Not a TV Star, but I Play One on TV. from Episode 329: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Invisible Man vs. Hawkman from  Episode 178: Superpowers
Agent to the Stars from Episode 190: Living the Dream
It's Another Tequila Sunrise from from 205: Plan B

I've started a little experiment here on Vox. I've created a group for my family and I'm trying to get everyone to join and participate.

I'm not just talking about my wife, parents, sister and brother-in-law. I'm talking about the whole gang -- all my aunts and uncles and cousins over the age of 13. My mother has a large family (she's the 3rd of 8 kids) and everyone still lives in the Bay Area but we don't see each other as often as we did when I was a kid. My hope is that we can all share what's going on in our lives on Vox.

We had a family party yesterday and I collected email addresses. Last night I sent out 20 invitations, and I still need a few more email addresses before I'm finished inviting.

I decided to use Vox instead of LiveJournal for a couple of reasons: 1) I wanted to keep my LiveJournal separate and 2) I thought Vox would have a smaller learning curve for new users.

So far 7 people have joined and I'm hoping to get the rest in and posting soon. I'm going to try to document this experiment on my Vox blog so stay tuned!