lwHancock

First and foremost, congratulations Barney and Sam!

This video set consists of 11 high definition videos arranged in the same order and title as they appear in the chapters in the wedding DVD I edited and presented to the bride and groom and immediate family...

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Everyone who knows me knows that my concept of creativity always involves technology - knobs, bells, miles of wires, computers, circuit boards and lights - lots of lights. They also know that each year I put on a Christmas music to lights show with each year having a different theme. This year's theme is "Dancing Christmas Trees"...
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The 2011 Christmas season is just about here. Most people start preparing for Christmas just after Thanksgiving. This year, I started preparing in August! And let me tell you, I've been busy getting ready for this year's Christmas since then...
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It was time for our annual pilgrimage out to the desert West of Las Vegas to view the Leonid meteor shower. Every November 17 brings one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. Most years bring between 20 to 40 meteors per hour (a normal night's meteorite count ranges around 11 per hour). However, occasionally the Leonids can produce spectacular meteor storms with several thousand meteorites per hour...
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I just added a new mouth watering recipe for Spaghetti alla Bolognese to the Vegan Recipes section of our site. If you're in the mood for a meaty Italian favorite (without meat of course), give it a try.
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When I first started my web site, it was intended mostly to keep family - spread to all four corners of the country - up to date with what my wife and I are up to. Being somewhat passionate about science and politics, I broached these subjects in many of my posts. Interspersed with such posts, I indeed wrote about personal experiences...
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Even a small tear in a tent can become problematic when camping. It can let in rain, bugs, and worse, grow larger to the extent the tent is no longer useable. Fortunately, repairing a tear is actually easier than most people would imagine and the tools to make a repair are easy to pack and use in the field. Basically, there are only four relatively inexpensive items you need to create a tent repair kit...
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With camping season here, I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for some time - write about my outdoor experiences. This is the first of what I hope to be many camping experience, equipment review, and how to blogs related to the outdoors.

I spent several weeks looking for and researching portable propane powered camp ovens as I wanted to add the capability of baking to my camp kitchen. There's nothing more tasty than fresh baked cinnamon rolls with fresh brewed coffee in the morning when camping. I was hoping to find something compact yet functional...
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I've been a member of several Rottweiler on-line forums for some time. One of the most common questions I see asked on the forums is "how do I get my puppy to stop biting and challenging me?" I smile when I read such posts because the person asking the question has never raised a Rottweiler before and thinks their dog is going to grow up to be vicious. While the first may be true - the person hasn't raised a Rottweiler before - the puppy isn't going to grow up to be vicious. The puppy is being a normal healthy puppy....
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It hasn't been without considerable wailing and gnashing of teeth that I've finally been able to resolve my iPhone woes. Since writing my previous post, I learned from an experienced iPhone guru that the iPhone actually has much of the scheduling functionality that I missed so much from my Blackberry. The caveat is that the functionality is only exposed when the iPhone is connected to a Microsoft Exchange server. I'm not sure I understand Apple's message here. If you want your iPhone to expose all those important business capabilities, you have to buy into a Microsoft platform?...
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I got my Verizon iPhone 4 last week and to put it mildly, I'm shocked that it lacks many basic business productivity features. After owning a Blackberry 8830 World Edition phone for several years, I took the business productivity tools on my 8830 for granted. Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the Blackberry, did a fantastic job building a stable phone. Mine never locked up. My previous Treo 650 and VX6700 smart phones locked up constantly. I would still have the 8830 if it weren't for the problem that RIM's Blackberry Desktop Manager is the worst piece of software ever written...
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It has been a few months since I last blogged. Back in March I blogged about an antibiotic that nearly killed me. In that blog I mentioned that my PSA levels went up and I was being treated for a prostate infection. Following a number of months of taking antibiotics, my PSA level kept going in the wrong direction. To make a long story short, a second biopsy was done and found cancer....
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Since loosing Sissy to cancer, we've been looking for a reputable breeder within driving distance in search for our next "little girl." We've researched quite a few breeders and their breeding lineage. We finally located a breeder in Arizona that has an impressive litter of pups. We got the pick of the litter. Meet Joy...
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Some six months ago, I had a PSA (prostate specific antigen) test come back indicating possible cancer. Immediately, I had flashbacks to 10 years ago when my life turned into a nightmare over one of these tests. To make a long story short, back then I was advised by my doctor to sign up for a cancer research program at John Hopkins as it seemed I had an aggressive form of cancer...
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This morning my wife and I had to say goodbye to Sissy, our beautiful and devoted rottweiler. She was our adventure companion and a loving member of our family.
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This is one of my earlier outdoor life pieces that I wrote for the international edition of the Land Rover Monthly (LRM) magazine. This story covers a Land Rover Rendezvous in Death Valley, California - an event that attracted Land Rover enthusiasts from around the world...
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