12/29/2006

Baby and Mommy are doing fine


Baby and Mommy are doing fine
Originally uploaded by LangFamily.
One of the rare public appearances for the dynamic duo.

The holidays have been a bit of a blur, and now we are back on track. Baby Grace has had a bit of a difficult time at here first Christmas, as she caught a cold from her brothers and has been struggling to keep it together through all of the visits and excitement.

12/28/2006

A Star is Born!


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Originally uploaded by LangFamily.
Unidentified karaoke singer steals show.

The 80's are not dead, as evidenced by the impromptu performance of an unidetified karaoke singer, who decided to regale a mixed audience of Christmas partiers with his own personal lounge-lizard rendition of "Wild Boys" (Duran Duran), and other assorted holiday favourites. Sources suggest that several agencies have attempted to contact the singer, but he is holding out until he has assessed the job market for hockey players and superheroes.

12/15/2006

Military History Wiki update



A brief update on Military History Wiki is available here.

Military History Wiki was a project that I started a couple of years back to provide an online repository for articles and information related to Military History. I had a lot of help from a number of friends, and especially from my brother-in-law John, who also shares the excitement. The site used software available under free license from Mediawiki, and was set up to run in a similar fashion to Wikipedia. I personally funded the hosting costs for the site, and also donated a significant amount of personal time to site promotion and updating.

After a while, several astute authors and historians noticed that there were many articles of relevance already posted on Wikipedia, and they started to cross-post or copy the Wikipedia articles to the MHW site. While this managed to expand the number of articles rather quickly, it also diluted the amount of original material. This is not necessarily a bad thing - in fact, MHW was picked up at Armchair General Magazine, and several other online sites including Military Spot, and Society for Military History.

Over the past year the contributors at Wikipedia have finally gotten their act together, and you can read about what has transpired as well as any new Military History Wiki information, here.