Some time ago our star-developer, Chris Holland, approached me with some preliminary concepts for a Dashboard shopping widget. After hearing only a brief explanation of his concept, I quickly formed an interest in contributing to the graphical design of it. That evening, I loaded up Adobe Photoshop and quickly began work on the widget's design.

Several weeks later, after much hard work, Chris has officially deployed his masterpiece to the public as the EarthLink Shopping Widget.

I'm very pleased with the careful balance of information versus aesthetics that the widget plays out. Without a doubt, this widget has both beauty and brains. In my opinion, it has triumphantly succeeded in its overall goal of providing a comfortable flow to the otherwise convoluted comparison-shopping experience.

If you're a Mac user, give it a try. Best of all, it's free!

This evening, Michelle performed her first dance recital with her ballet and tap class at the La Verne Community Center. She had a lot of fun and made us very proud. Aidan even managed to pull through the entire show.

In the video, Michelle is positioned second from the right in the second row. Basically, the four year-old girls took the first row while the younger, less-experienced, three year-olds took the second row.

Click the image below to watch video of the performance.



Of course, there are plenty of photos on Flickr as well.

Aidan enjoys his first solid food, rice cereal.

Aidan goes for a swim, for the first time, in his grandparent's pool.

Aidan meets his great-grandmother, Emilia Moya, who will be celebrating her 90th birthday in December.

Michelle and Aidan always make certain to keep Mom and Dad in the fresh air and on-the-ball.

My sister, Jazmin, recently took part in a music video for the song "Amundsen" by a band called FM Revolver.

The video hasn't been released yet but here's a still in the meantime. Congrats Jazmin!