As I already documented earlier, Teddy’s christening had a cloud over it because the Father at our church would not allow Augusto to be the Godfather. He did allow Augusto to attend the Christening, and we took some photos of the big event. Solange was really excited for the event and bought Teddy a special outfit just for the occasion. Read More »
June 1st, 2008 | Category: Brazil, Religion, Slide Show, Teddy | Leave a comment
I have developed some new technologies for the web site which enables a dynamic slide show to be displayed through some simple SQL calls. The one thing that I have learned about importing CSV files is that it is far from easy. While trying to solve these problems, I did a lot of queries and again there was little to no solutions on the web. So in addition, to my last article, here are two more common problems and solutions when importing CSV files using Microsoft Excel. Read More »
May 31st, 2008 | Category: Technology | Leave a comment
I really love ToonDoo. It seems to be a great outlet for my creative energy. I decided to make a political cartoon and go on record that I am an Obama supporter. To be honest, he is the only one of the candidates that does not insult my intelligence. So I decided to make fun of all the politicians, and then I threw a dark horse into the race for presidency. LOL. Read More »
May 27th, 2008 | Category: Cartoons, Politics | Leave a comment
I might as well make it official. My favorite restaurant in the whole world is Terzetto. Here are the reason’s that I love Terzetto. They have a huge menu. I go often, and often like to try out different things. Each time I try something new, it turns out just as good as many of my old time favorites. They are very accommodating. Any change to a dish, and they will make it special order. Solange when she was pregnant, would invent special dishes while we drove there. Then she would describe it and they would cook it. It is simply fantastic. Read More »
May 27th, 2008 | Category: Brazil, Slide Show | Comments (1)
I have always wanted to find a program to make cartoons, and now I found a great one - ToonDoo. ToonDoo really makes it easy to import objects, characters and text into your cartoon. It’s done with the latest in Web 2.0 technologies enabling ToonDoo to run in any browser.
The story below actually happened to me. Move your mouse over the cartoon to see the rest. Read More »
May 25th, 2008 | Category: Brazil, Cartoons | Comments (2)
My apartment is on the fourth floor of a ten story building. When I first purchased my apartment in 2003, a good friend of mine Jamie from Philadelphia made a very prescient comment. As we were looking out over the beautiful views from my apartment, he said “Wonder what you’ll do when those trees grow a little?” Read More »
May 18th, 2008 | Category: Brazil, Photos | Leave a comment
I am now 48 years old, and I have just now found one of the greatest pleasures in life. Making a baby laugh. Perhaps it is their innocence, or the true sincerity of the laugh. But it just makes you happy and you almost automatically want to laugh along. We were in one of the nicer Asian restaurants in Rio called Mr. Lam. Solange placed two chopsticks under Teddy’s arms, and he could not stop laughing. I think that we had a better time than all the other people at the restaurant. Read More »
May 11th, 2008 | Category: Teddy, Videos | Comments (1)
Solange has been dying to have a professional photo shoot with props and lighting. So one day, she snuck out when I was on a conference call and came back with the photos from the shoot. They really turned out great. Of course, the photo studio does not give you digitals but prints. So I had to scan them in, and then make this slide show. I really have to wonder when these photographers will enter the digital age! Hey that’s it! I’m going to open up a photo studio and only use digital technology. Oh well. that’s for another day. Enjoy Teddy’s photo shoot.
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May 7th, 2008 | Category: Photos, Slide Show, Teddy | Comments (2)
I just learned that Jeff Nassiff passed away two nights ago. He had a long struggle with cancer. Jeff was a colleague of mine at Gateway from the very beginning. I remembered that I had taken a video when Jeff, RJ and Brad came to visit Myrtle Beach in March 2002. I re-edited the video as a tribute to Jeff. Rest in Peace, Jeff. Read More »
April 24th, 2008 | Category: Videos | Comments (5)

The weather is finally clearing up and we decided to take Teddy on a little trip to the beach. Teddy loved the experience playing in the sand and the water the entire time. I pulled out my camera and took a ton of great photos. It was hard to decide which ones to leave out. Teddy is definitely a full fledged beach boy. I can’t wait for him to get a load of the beaches in Rio de Janeiro. Read More »
April 19th, 2008 | Category: Slide Show, Teddy | Comments (1)