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CS5 Installation Complete

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

The install is the easy part. Making effective use of all this capability is the challenge.

Don’t Stop Believin’

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

. Steph and I have four kids between us, all now in their twenties. As everyone who has raised kids to this age knows, there are ups and downs along the way. During the downs there are many times when you wish you could reach inside your kid's head and pull the levers and ...

RTW 1938 Nimbus with sidecar

Friday, April 9th, 2010

I visited our local BMW/Triumph dealer, Lone Star, today to test ride the Triumphs on the Factory Tour. I'm slowly trying to adapt and adjust back into American culture. I'm using riding as one of the tools to accomplish that task. I rode the Bonneville SE. It was fun, but I think ...

Steph’s Dr. Oz Video

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

  Video clips of Steph's segment on the Dr. Oz show: Steph's portion only: http://www.hackneys.com/video/droz-steph.wmv Entire segment: http://www.hackneys.com/video/droz-full-segment.wmv

Steph’s Big Leap

Monday, March 29th, 2010

  Due to formatting requirements I needed to produce this post in PDF format. Please click here for the post: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/stephs-big-leap.pdf

A Worthwhile Resolution

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I spent my New Year's Eve in a surgical suite. Click here to learn how you can avoid the same fate: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/aworthwhileresolution.pdf Happy New Year. Now go get checked.  

The Ends of the Earth

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

  Parque Nacional Los Alerces, Argentina  You can travel to the ends of the earth, but you just can't escape quality Iowa manufacturing...

Fuso Photo Albums

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

  For those who just can't get enough of our rig, I created some photo albums of shots of the rig in action here: http://www.hackneys.com/gallery/v/travel/fuso/  

Captain Orr’s Archive

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

While moving some data around to prepare for our departure overseas I came across the columns I wrote for the magazine Data Management Review. Since I shut down my last company's web site, there has not been a full archive of these columns available online. In the interests of the former customers, team members, ...

San Diego fires – update 8:00 AM PDT 24 October, 2007

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

The shore of Mission Bay San Diego, California, USA 8:30 AM 24 October, 2007 In response to inquiries about our status and the situation here I expanded distribution to our full travel mailing list. My original status message follows this one. We are still OK. We’re in the only little pocket of this entire ...