With the release of CaRP 4.0 just days away, I’ve found myself thinking back to the beginnings of Gecko Tribe, LLC, and how CaRP came to be my flagship product. Here’s a brief history of my company.
After graduating from San Francisco State University in 1994, I got a job in the Japanese development group at […]

My “new years resolutions” this year revolve around process changes. One of my brothers and I periodically have long conversations about our businesses. In our latest phone call, he talked about how he’s taught his employees that if they follow processes designed to bring about particular results, the results will come.
If you focus only on […]

Yesterday, we packed up our van and left Nebraska for Bear Lake (on the Utah-Idaho border) for a family reunion. Just before reaching Cheyenne Wyoming, we heard a “thunk” and saw a huge cloud of smoke in our rear view mirror.  We took it out of gear and pulled off the road, and as we […]

Aloha Michael! I tried contacting you through your help desk system, but the registration confirmation email never reached my mail server, so I’ll post here instead.
First of all, congratulations on your wedding! Your first-ever surfing attempt photo looks much better than one of my first attempt would have been. The wetsuit I was wearing was […]

Last year, my resolution was 1280 x 1024 on both of the 17″ monitors connected to my Mac. I did pretty well on those–I don’t feel the need for larger screens.  This year, my resolution is to replace the Mac and one of the monitors with a 17″ iMac at 1440 x 900. I’ll have […]

The Geckoplex is going to be moving at the end of the month. My wife and I had been planning to move north of Salt Lake City between my two favorite brothers, but then we got thinking that perhaps we should spend a few years living near her family in Nebraksa first. I’ll miss the […]

Every once in a while, I get an itch to do some genealogical research. The problem is, huge amounts of research have already been done for my family, and although I know where to find a lot of it (FamilySearch.org), I didn’t know an easy way to download the existing information to my computer. Monday, […]

I’m primarily a Mac user. But occasionally, I need to test out my software on a PC. So a few months ago when Office Depot was offering big rebates on eMachines computers (what they’ll do is offer their own rebate in addition to manufacturer rebates so that you end up with a really hot deal), […]

My wife had a coupon for $2 off a Schick razor and somehow managed to convince me to use it, even though, despite the discount, I could have gotten razors I was satisfied with for less. I had used triple bladed razors in the past, and they hadn’t seemed any better to me than the […]

I’ve done my first interview for radio. Randall Jeppesen from KSL newsradio 1160 in Salt Lake City dropped by a few minutes ago and we discussed how consumers and webmasters can use (and how some abuse) RSS, Photocasting, flickr, and more. As he was leaving, I asked when the piece would run, and he told […]