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11 years ago today, my dog Rudy was born. 6 weeks later, I drove her home as she laid in a shoe box on the passenger seat floor of my car. She was my first baby.

She went everywhere with me and shared many special moments in my life. I really miss seeing her laying next to me while I watch TV in the living room. I miss her nails tapping the wood floor when she gets up to go drink water. I miss her licking my face in the morning trying to wake me up while I am sleeping so I can open the doggy door for her to go potty. I miss the sound of the doggy door flapping back and forth as she goes through it.

I miss her. A Lot.

I hope where ever she is, she knows that every night, just before I go to sleep, I still whisper good night to her in my mind.

Happy 11th birthday Rudy… Good night.

What a difference a year makes. Last January, my wife and I were gifted with a baby girl. She is now 16 months old. This is how much can change in a year…

May 5th 2007

A year later…

OK, OK, she is still making silly faces. But you get the idea.

Feliz el Cinco de Mayo mis amigos!

Since my wife’s parents are from Croatia and she grew up eating a lot of home cooking, she sent me a link to a blog post of one of her favorite dinners as a kid.

Punjene paprike is what its called. Its basically stuffed peppers cook and simmered in tomato sauce. It takes a couple of hours at low heat to make the ingredients nice and fork tender. You can make it with either beef or pork. For me, my ace in the hole for this recipe is mixing them both together and instead of minced pork, I threw a little Farmer John’s breakfast sausage in there. Get the recipe from the original blog post and enjoy.

Bon appetite!

Remember those mix tapes your buddies use to make you? Ok, maybe if you are under 25 years old you probably haven’t even seen a cassette in real life. But take my word for it, it was cool at one point in time.

Muxtape is bringing back some retro-chic to the online music sharing community. It allows you to make a MP3 online ‘muxtape’ up to 12 songs at 10 MBytes each. The design and execution is dead simple but some how very appealing. It looks like someone made it in their bedroom when they were grounded by their parents. Its design is also clearly Apple inspired with its iphone-esque interface but i suspect it does not work on an iphone since the music is played via a Flash media player embedded on the site.

Take a look for yourself and I’ll be waiting to hear your very own muxtape.

Yesterday Google launched a limited-release preview of their Web Services stack call Google AppEngine. Below are videos from their first ‘Campfire’ demostration of the product. Sounded like it was a cold night in Mountain View…