Every day in the United States, 38,000 pints of blood are needed. That’s a lot of blood. And up until recently, I haven’t been able to give blood. But today I did, and I’m very glad I did. I haven’t been able to give blood until recently because I was …
Article first published as The Meltdown on Technorati. Parenting a child with Autism has it’s benefits. Children tend to be quiet much of the time because of their focus on their current project. But then there is the dreaded meltdown. Children all have tantrums at some point, pushing their boundaries, testing their …
Article first published as Should You Screen for Autism? on Technorati. Reports are coming in about an article published in the journal Pediatrics about Canadian researchers who, through a review, have pointed out the inconsistencies in Autism diagnosis, and therefore find no benefit for screening for Autism. To date I have been unable …
Article first published as Family Heritage: Celebrating Our Roots on Technorati. Every year in June my family has a tradition: we attend the Utah Highland Games. We attend because of the food, the pipe music, the people, and our heritage. You see, most of my ancestors were from the British Isles, specifically from …
In the recent WWDC keynote, Steve et al had mentioned embracing the post-PC world, or using mobile devices like the iPad instead of a laptop/desktop to do your day to day work. And for the most part this is possible, when it comes to creating documents, viewing content, even creating …
Article first published as Autism Sanity in an Insane World on Technorati. Our world, with constant access to everyone’s opinion through the Internet, seems insane. Political arguments abound, religious arguments continue, and social attacks continue. Everyone seems to want to find someone else to blame for their troubles, and those who get …
I like Apple products. There, my bias has been shared right up front. I don’t like them because they are “Apple”, and I don’t like them because I live in a distortion field of unreality. I like them because they give me a stable OS (UNIX) that I don’t have …
Article first published as Autism In The Family on Technorati. Autism is a devastating diagnosis for any family. It’s not fully understood, causes are hotly debated, and there is so much misleading information out there that no one really knows what to do. When we found out our son had Autism, we …
Article first published as The School Dilemma: When Do You Advance Your Child? on Technorati. Recently, while my wife was working with my son’s teacher in his class, she was asked a question: would we mind if our son was moved up into a more advanced Autism class? The question was …
This morning I started my daily news review by reading articles on the new Windows 8 OS that Microsoft demoed. Reviews are ranging from lackluster to stellar, which has to be very frustrating to Redmond right now. The key features of Windows 8 is that it focuses on the tablet …
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