Author Archives: Brian Alvey

My favorite little world class rock station in New York’s backyard just turned two and celebrated with a concert in White Plains on Friday night. Niki and I spent the evening without kids for the first time in a long time. Well, I’m on the road right now so that happens more often for meContinue reading “And a one, and a two”

I have to say that I don’t totally understand my Canadian sister and I doubt she understands me either. But when I have a gallon of Coors Light in me and Glenn Tilbrook is on stage singing I could only feel closer to her if we were Siamese twins.

A few weeks ago, Niki and I met Rachael Ray’s half-sister, but she wasn’t aware of her family connection. Our waitress came over and when she smiled you would have sworn it was a younger Rachael Ray. We told her who she reminded us of and she said that we weren’t the first people toContinue reading “Rachael Ray’s half-sister”

Congratulations to Reese Witherspoon on her Oscar for best actress. I’m a voting member of the Academy, but one with lots of distractions, so I didn’t get a chance to review Walk The Line. I voted for her anyway, largely because she was brilliant as Tracy Flick in Election. I hope she tops her own $30 millionContinue reading “Reese is the word”

Niki and I turned 75 today. Guess which one of us is 45 and which one is 30. (Okay, so we’re both still in our thirties…I’ve got a lot of gray.) I kicked the day off with a 6am conference call. AOL hosting did some networking upgrades for us and I guess it’s better toContinue reading “March 6 of the penguins”

Spamalot is amazing. Niki and I saw it a few nights ago and it was a mix of Monty Python lines everyone knows by heart and some crazy new musical stuff just for Broadway. Afterwards we met Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce. Everyone else was all like “I loved you on Frasier”, but IContinue reading “Spamalot”

Ten years ago today, my aunt Nanette suggested that her friend Niki send me an email and flirt with me. We were both in dead-end relationships and she thought we’d get along great. We had the same birthday. We had similar senses of humor. We both loved Nanette. It was a great idea. We’ve beenContinue reading “A decade of Niki”

This is a great week. Every month our growing Weblogs, Inc. and Blogsmith teams converge at a hotel in New York for a few days and we work together around the clock to advance the platform, eat sushi, whiteboard, eat Candlelight, code, code, eat sushi and write more code. These trips have been described as “likeContinue reading “Captive developers”

We went to Florida for Thanksgiving and Niki visited relatives with the boys while I worked with Gavin on Blogsmith, getting it ready for Weblogs, Inc. It was a pretty good trip at the beginning. I got Gavin a PowerBook and he immediately fixed a bunch of things that didn’t work in Safari. The lastContinue reading “Man, I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same”

Yesterday morning I called Jack to let him know that his little brother Victor was no longer inside mommy. At 9 pounds, he was nearly 50% larger than Jack and his delivery took only half the time. I think they call that Moore’s Law of Birthing. If we have another child, I am expecting thatContinue reading “Welcome to Earth”