the new 'jmo's spot' site

Man, give me a few extra minutes, a mild head cold and a laptop, and I present to you the all new Jmo's Spot site.

My all new site (http://www.jonandrandi.com/jmo) is where I will be putting all my technical mumbo jumbo. The categories that I foresee are Mac Dashboard Widgets, Mac Freeware and Software, Windows software and hardware, web design, and of course, politics.

It is just my little corner of the web for my "two cents." And since I am in the web design world, that basically includes anything in front of a computer.

So stop by and give it a try.  It doesn't have all that much right now, but I am still working out the bugs and getting all the features setup that I want.

That is it for now. Enjoy!

something looks different, doesn't it?

Hhhmmm....  Something is different.  I know it, but I just can't put my finger on it... What is it... hhhmmm...

Oh yea!!   A NEW THEME! haha..  Yes, as you can see, Jonathan got bored again, so I it is time to update the theme.  But I am glad I did, this one is pretty darn cool lookin'.

Hope you all enjoy it.

Oh, and Dad...  I am working on getting the newer photos uploaded... Sorry it took so long.. haha..  :)

we are currently experiencing technical difficulties...

My goodness!! It has been a long time since I have posted, huh? Sorry about that. Let's just say that life got the best of me for a while. Well, not really life, but work and school. We have been working on a project at work for about 2 years now. And we were trying to do all we could to finally get it rolled out. Well, what really happened is we did one redesign about 2 years ago, and it was scrapped right before launch. So we started on another, and did some major new programming and scripting and have made it look very sharp. This is one of those "blow people out of their seats" web sites (we hope!).

Then one of my professors disappeared for about 3 weeks during this semester. Well that put us behind in the syllubus because he only released modules a week before they were due. Well, we were three modules behind. So what he did was make all of them due the day before the final was made available to take. So I had to make a mad dash to read three chapters and then take the quizzes, then watch the videos for them and take those quizzes, then read the case studies and take those quizzes!! Then we had "part 1" of the final that was over the last 5 chapters we covered, followed by "part 2" of the final that was a complete comprehensive final!! OH MY GOSH!! That was not fun at all!

Needless to say, that same professor is keeping to his ability to not show up and do what he says he will. He was supposed to release our 2 part final score online today at noon... um... still waiting.....Anyway. Now that school is over, and we have the redesign project at work turned over to our Administrator for launch approval, I am going to try and get caught up on this site. At least until summer session gets here. I get to take Principles of Management over the summer. Both for my degree and for a career development program I am in at work.

To kick things off, I am going to toss some updated photos of the kids on here. They are just getting more ornery day after day. I will be posting more pics over the next few days. I have a good number of them. The ones here make a flip book almost!  Oh, and be sure to read Dylan's shirt.  We thought it fit him to a T! haha...

Kailtyn and Dylan (before)

Kaitlyn and Dylan (after)

photo gallery recovery

Well, I am going to have to send a big thank you out to my dad for giving me some tips on getting our photo gallery back up and running. It turns out our host migrated us to a new server system, and now we have the option of choosing either PHP 4 or PHP 5. And it also happens that a setting that is much needed turned off, is by default with version 5. And bingo! We are back up.

Now the real fun begins! haha... Now I have to go back and try to upload the over 2 gigs of photos that we had in our gallery when it went BOOM! But I will get it done. And think about it, now you will get to see some old photos that you may not have looked at in a while.

photo gallery disaster

For those of you that may not have noticed, our photo gallery has went KABOOM!! and exploded!  Not a pretty site.  But between preparing to present our latest web redesign at work and trying to do two marketing chapters by this weekend, I have had much time to work on it.  But I will try to get it back up this weekend.

Jake's new CD

While up at Stillwater last weekend, my younger brother, Jake, gave me a copy of 6 songs that he has been working on. I thought I would put them out there for everyone to hear. I think they are good for simply writing them and then recording them in his bedroom.

So go to the Jonathan's Radio.Blog link under Music to the right.

You rock Jake!!

And that is Christmas

Well, we hope that everyone had a great Christmas, we sure did. It was great to get to see everyone and the food at all of our stops was great! We would like to also thank everyone again for the great gifts. Kaitlyn has been pretty much playing non-stop. Her only problem now is, what to play with! haha.. She just sort of goes from one thing to another. We will try to get some video of her enjoying her new toys

As for my dad, Stan... Well dad.. We hope you get better soon. We missed not having you out there with us snapping the great family shots that you do. I tried to keep up with everything, but I'm sure I missed some stuff. We love you dad, get better!

I now have all of our photos online for you to view, there are about 108. They are in our Photo Gallery, and they are the 3rd album.

Now we look forward to the new year and also my mom's (Ann's) birthday. See you all then!

New Pics

Wanted to let you all know that I have put some of the extra photos that we had made when we were doing our Christmas pics. Just for you viewing pleasure is all.

Welcome to our new home

Well, as you can see, we are moving again. This time to our own domain. This is awesome becuase it will let us keep our photo galleries up-to-date (we hope), and also give me room to play with cool add-ons to web pages I'm working on.

I finally broke down and decided to try this "WordPress" that dad and Phillip like. It is supprisingly easy to use, which is cool. But I don't like using things "out of the box", so I am going to be trying all sorts of hacks and add-ons to see what I come up with.