Stephen Yeargin

Fall weekends are notoriously busy. I had been looking forward to heading back to Martin for homecoming for about a month or two. I serve on my college fraternity’s Alumni & Volunteer Corporation, so the focus of the day trip was to make it for our annual meeting. We also met with the Communications Department [...]

I am starting to realize that jQuery and ThickBox are making me look like a lot better of a Web developer at work than I really am. Then again, who says you have to write every last line of code in order to get the job done?

As I came about a little under ten years after the 1973 oil crisis, this week has been a rare glimpse into what it must have been like to watch lines que at gas stations, with many simply shutting off their pumps. The Nashville Gas Crisis of 2008 is largely a logistical bottleneck, but it [...]

 
Tonight my wife and I went to the Nashville Area Blogger Meet-up at The Flying Saucer in downtown Nashville. The gathering is one of those “Hey, I know you online but we’ve never met in person” kind of events, so there is always those awkward moments when one must let the senses catch-up to the [...]

I really should have learned my lesson after my trip to the zoo. This time I did not get the advance warning of watching a school bus pull up in front of the Parthenon at Centennial Park; the third graders all just appeared out of nowhere. I guess it says something that I am spending [...]

We took a leisurely walk around Moss-Wright Park this afternoon for the first time in the over a year we have lived a short drive from it. It is one the nicer municipal parks in the area.
As a side note, I am still taking suggestions for the third installment of Friday Off. I have to [...]

I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a major city in our country going for up to a week without electricity or safe water. Our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Houston (particularly one family) and the surrounding area as they begin the long road to a return to normalcy.

Since social media is ubiquitous in the world around us these days, it is good to see that companies are finally learning how to work together. I am really impressed with the latest update to Adium (an open-source Mac messaging client) because it added support for Facebook. I may actually start using instant messaging again.

Here are my late-breaking predictions for the Apple “Let’s Rock” event tomorrow (September 9). I did not come up with any of the original ideas for these. They are merely a rehashing of what is already circulating around the Internet leading up to the event.

Skinny iPod nano - The short, chunky version lacked the appeal [...]

I did not have much luck writing tonight. I stared at a blank Smultron document for about eight minutes before relenting. I do recommend the application if use a Mac. It is great for coding.