Blog Archive

for posterity and whatnot

Customer Service: Piece of Cake

A local Columbus business understands what customer service is all about.

Nanny State to the rescue!

Thank the Lord for the Federal Government! Imagine the death and destruction if alcohol and caffeine were allowed to be bottled together and sold! Ever since the scourge of Four Loko ravaged the land the FDA has been ramping up its eternal vigilance that we might be spared the threat of artificially caffeinated alcohol. And [...]

Diary of a Michigan fan: what despair looks like

Despite a winning record losing to Ohio State today in embarrassing fashion feels like the nadir of my Michigan fandom. In many ways today wasn’t necessarily about winning. Let’s face it, in every conceivable category Ohio State is a better football team than Michigan and everyone expected them to win. Seven wins and a bowl [...]

The House of Death

Okay, perhaps the title is a bit hyperbolic but it certainly felt that way. As those of you following along on Twitter and Facebook know, Chez Holtsberry has been visited by a virus from heck of late. Warning: what follow is rather gruesome … First, Ella came how from kindergarten after throwing up at school. [...]

Value added: managing time online

One of my constant struggles when it comes to new/social media and online communication is that my natural inclination is to websurf way too much and think and/or contemplate too litte. I jump around the web seeking content and reading bits and pieces of this and that (and attempting to follow what my friends and [...]

WordPress for Android

I am testing out the WordPress for Android app. Looks very handy for mobile blogging.

Closed until further notice

For a variety of reasons I won’t go into, this blog is not currently active. You can go to Kevin Holtsberry Dot Com for more information. Those odd people who have visited in the last few weeks might have noticed that I have been using this site to test out themes. In case you were [...]

To blog or not to blog

That is the question, right? An odd one to be asking yourself just past what was Good Friday – now Saturday.  But such is my life. Lisa and Ella are sleeping in a tent in the back yard. It has been so nice today that Ella wanted to camp out. She already “camped out” in [...]

Federalizing the culture wars

This strikes me as one of the epic failures of conservatism or the Right writ large. Power continues to flow to Washington and the federal government. Issues are increasingly nationalized and local control lost or subverted.

Pictures – Fall 2009

I am experimenting with using this blog to post photos and comments. So consider this the first try.