Techie Manager

So much for flying home to Boston. Logan’s radar system is out, and I’m stuck in Buffalo. I just hope that they get it fixed by tomorrow morning’s 7:00 AM flight…

My good friend Bob, from back home in Buffalo, has asked me to be the Godfather for his baby girl, Jenna. I’m flying from Boston to Buffalo tonight. My flight is at 8:10, but I had high hopes that I could catch an earlier flight. I arrived at Logan at 3:00. All [...]

To celebrate my 39th birthday, I squatted 320 lbs. My eyes crossed, I blew a few capillaries, and it made me very happy…

I had the pleasure of presenting a session on “Playful Parenting” at the 2005 Massachusetts/Rhode Island/Vermont La Leche League Conference. It was this weekend in Chelmsford, MA. Before you ask, my wife is a La Leche leader here in Scituate, and she and several of her co-leaders had asked me to run a [...]

Almost forgot about this bit of shameless self-promotion. From the September 21, 2004 edition of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s MBA Newslink newsletter:
Kevin Jarnot, technology managing director at DebtX, Boston, has been appointed to a key committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO). He will serve as co-chair of the [...]

My oldest son, Tommy, started kindergarden last week. I’m getting old…

From the Cape Times:
Zimbabwe’s colour TV may also ban pink, purple, white and green
“Red is just the start,” said Solly Solinga, spokesperson for Zimbabwean Television, when I phoned him about the decision to ban that colour from the country’s TV screens because it symbolised the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party. “We have other colours [...]

jarnot.com has moved from a spare PIII 500 in my basement to 1&1 Hosting. I feel like I’ve grown up.
I just need to find some spare time to rewrite my kludgy PHP wrapper around MovableType. Until then, I’m using a bare-bones install of MT.

It’s always nice to have a victory when going up against the system. Today I had one of those victories.
Early last November, I was heading back from Logan Airport after having spent the day in NYC on a business trip. One of my co-workers needed a ride back to his place in the [...]

I’m finally back to work after 2 weeks of flu hell. I had a flu shot back in early October, and I think it saved me from getting a serious case of the virus. My family, however, did not get flu shots and they all became very ill. Both Heather and Peter [...]