Digital Dad Days

I had a pretty mellow Father’s Day this year, enjoying a range of homemade gifts, reading the NYT, even hitting a bucket of golf balls at the nearby driving range.

I did get a kick out of this post on the worst TV Dads of All Time.

Father’s Day is a pretty analog event, but I did think about how things have changed since I started this blog in 2004 – hard to believe it’s been over five years.

Some things have stayed the same – changing the ink in a printer, home networking issues, moving media around the home – perhaps these are the “classics” that we will always deal with.

But some things have changed – wiring a portable music player into your car isn’t as hard as it used to be, cell phones have become much more capable, digital cameras are way better. I have to now think about social networks as much as surfing the web safely.

I painted a rock with red paint when I was a kid and gave it to my Dad as a Father’s Day gift – a paperweight! I think it’s still on his desk. I suspect the handmade frame with my daughter’s picture will be on my desk for a long time as well, and I suspect there will always be plenty of Digital Dad stuff out there waiting to be discussed.