Gehrig’s Dictionary:

Pickle on the cob (also known as cucumber on the cob): (n) Eating a cucumber that has not been cut up.

You’ve all heard the horror stories. You go to boot up you computer, nothing happens… perhaps you hear a click… click… click…

This actually happened to me a couple years ago. Luckily my hard drive started working again just long enough for me to get a back-up before replacing it.

I recently heard of an acquaintance that had this happen to them. It reminded me of how vulnerable I am. I have no back-up plan!

I do however have a plan now. I’m signing up for mozy. Yeah, I’ve heard about about the great claims with Carbonite from all the radio shows (Rush, Dr. Laura, etc. etc.). We’ve even used Carbonite at work. I think its great, but when I did a search to see what other players are out there, I found mozy.

Why mozy?

I recognized their name. There are here it Utah. A couple years ago they sponsored a coding competition with a cash prize of $10,000. It was basically a recruiting effort to expose some of the best local talent.

But it is not just name recognition alone. I’ve done my homework and they are the real deal. Check out these videos:

So what are you waiting for? Get backing up! You’ll thank yourself someday. It’s only $4.95 for unlimited storage. If you can’t afford it, start with the free plan and back up your most important 2 GB (like your My Documents folder)

Mozy Online Backup. 2GB Free or $4.95/mo for Unlimited Backup. It’s simple, automatic and secure!

Oh, and one tip… If you are going to sign up for unlimited and decide to pay for a 1 year or 2 year plan, save 10% by entering “AUGUST” in the promo code (good until the end of August obviously!).

I found some old photos of our back yard and thought it would be fun to show off the changes we’ve made.

These photos were taken 11/16/2004 when we were looking at this house with our real estate agent:

The next photos were taken 04/19/2005 as we ventured out to do some work in the back yard for the first time.

Here are a couple photos take of our fence on 04/22/2006. I used the photos to post an ad on Craigslist. We had someone come tear down the fence and haul it off for free just so they could use the old wood.

Here is our back yard now, after putting in a new fence.

We had photos taken of the kids on Wednesday. Surprising it went pretty fast and the kids were just super. Here are the 3 we think turned out best:

(Click photo to enlarge)

I’ve posted new photos to our online Gallery. Enjoy!

http://picasaweb.google.com/dustin.davis/Fall2007

Since we have a theme of naming our sons after hall of fame baseball players, I thought I’d have some fun with Nolan’s birth announcement. I created it using a combination of Photoshop and Microsoft publisher. The baseball card design was done in Photoshop. I modeled the designed after the first card I found – a 1988 Topps Tom Glavine rookie card. I then ordered 25 5×7 prints through Costco and picked them up the next day. It only cost 10 bucks. I love technology!

Well, I figured this should be the place to post family updates for anyone who cares. NerdyDork is my other personal blog, but I often fill it with boring programming tidbits & other stuff. So welcome, to the new Davis family blog. I’ll try to post family photos and videos on occasion to keep you all updated and entertained

For now, enjoy some of my recent favorite family photos…

Gehrig somehow sprained his ankle.

Our house flooded on our 7^th Anniversary. That was fun. This is where is started…

And it just kept going. The wall starting peeing in the toilet!

Gracie enjoying a swim

We had lots of neighbors help us put in our new giant sand box!