Moving to www.daddyclaxton.com; join me.
December 2009 will be the last month for The Dads Center.  I began with an idea when I was going through my divorce in 2004 for this site and found that being a single dad was pretty demanding, but rewarding nonetheless.  As I've progressed in my growth with my marriage to Kari, it's become more and more clear that I need to do more direct marketing and branding of myself.  And so, I've already transferred the content of this blog over to www.daddyclaxton.com.  The pages still are under construction, but I'm making progress.  I'm excited about what the new site

Giving Myself Permission To Be Me; What makes you happy?
I've been in research mode, reflection mode and healing mode the past few weeks (well, months.)  It's time for some changes in my life and I've been sorting through what they might be and what they might become. The forces of evil have been whipping about me and my family for the duration of the summer of 2009 with the force of a Katrina wind.  Others have sought to bring ruin upon me and my household and I'm sure they're feeling very good about themselves and their worthless greed.  May God have mercy on you.  You'll need it. When I was younger, I wanted to be a novelist.  But the problem I had was the issue with the classic "Narrative Arc," where a story begins wi

Product Bloggers Beware! New FTC disclosure requirements!
Finally, something from the FTC requiring the disclosure of information when one is blogging about a product in exchange for something from that company.   From Mashable: FTC to Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments October 5th, 2009 | by Adam OstrowBloggers now have up to 11,000 reasons to disclose when they are being paid to review products.The FTC has updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time since 1980, and among the changes, a requirement that “bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the mate

Engadget: 30% dropped iPhone calls normal; My solution is ...
I saw this piece on Engadet today and thought about the frustration I used to suffer driving down 635 here in Dallas and suffering the angst of another dropped call on my iPhone 3G.  Well, the solution I learned from an Apple Genius was to simply turn the 3G function off unless I was doing something with a lot of data.  Yes, I'm paying for 3G, but it was explained to me that AT&T had over extended its towers with the launch of the service.  When I went back to EDGE on my phone for making phone calls, the problem went away almost completely.  But here's the Engadget piece just in case you missed it.

I fell in love at the Apple Store. Too funny
This is funny. Get a Mac. Today. I know this feeling. My wife and I are both Macs.