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the kids asked about black holes…

…which seemed like a tough nut to crack.  So after a bit of digging around, I came across the hubble site which has a very awesome kid friendly, interactive overview (kids loved it!).  Here are a few others if you’re heading down a similar path…World Wide Telescope - bring the universe to your desktop…Dangerous Book for Boys [...]

merry christmas!

…and if you need to know exactly where Santa is, check out http://www.noradsanta.org…

10 great online spots for gifts

I’ve been ‘e-shopping’ this Christmas with better than expected success. I’m not done yet, but pretty close – and haven’t set foot in a mall. This is not a comprehensive list by any means, but I am sharing a few sites that have fulfilled a need, or at least inspired some thinking – especially for those few [...]

relaxing

Enjoying a week away at High Hampton Inn in Cashiers, N.C. Will post a few pics soon.

migrating wordpress

I’ve found a few threads on this, and wanted to recap my experience here. It is possible to move wordpress – and quite easy actually, but there are several steps that are not completely obvious. My move was from the root of my site, brentphillips.com, to a subdomain – blog.brentphillips.com which required some extra work [...]

covers

I’ve been enjoying covers lately. Here are a few “off the beaten path” that caught my attention recently…
1. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) – Squire, Sherwood, & White (Yes)
2. Baba O’Riley (The Who) – The Waco Brothers
3. Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) – Social Distortion
4. Rusty Cage – (SoundGarden) – Johnny Cash
5. Jolene (Dolly Parton) – [...]