I don’t surf the web anymore. When the web was young, people would spend hours just visiting random sites on the web and seeing what’s out there. For some reason that’s become boring, or maybe the sites have just become less novel and boring. In any case, the only time I visit sites is when …
It’s a good thing I’m not a doctor. I would suck at it. I had to go to the doctor’s office this morning for some blood work and that went quicker than expected, so I went upstairs and got an appointment to have someone look at my rib. My doctor wasn’t in today, so I …
Sometimes a good proxy for how much fun you have over a vacation or even just weekend can be measured by how many injuries you inflicted upon yourself. By that measure, I had a LOT of fun last weekend. On Saturday, we took a long drive from home through San Jose, up Mt. Hamilton, down …
OK, local television background extra is probably more like it, but I was on TV. On Friday night, Bay Area Backroads aired their segment on Geocaching. A bunch of my friends were on it and I was in one scene at a dinner. I barely recognized myself in the quick pan of a dimly-lit room. …
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I’ve been doing a lot of work on my Geocaching tools recently. First, I rewrote most of the JavaScript for my GPS Coordinate Converter. It’s not a nasty mess anymore and it works for more funky ways that people type these things. Most obvious is that Firefox now works when you use negative signs. I …
I’ve never really been a fan of cameras. Mostly it’s because I hate interrupting the flow of the experience. Instead of enjoying where you are and what you’re doing, you suddenly become there for the purpose of taking a picture. You make people pose and end up viewing your surroundings through a tiny lens. I …
Instant message services have really changed the way I work. It allows me to have quick ‘casual’ conversations with people all over the place. This is really helpful in a large company when you’re working with people in different buildings and locations. It helps businesses work quickly and keeps me in touch with friends as …
I was giving Signal a good workout with a feather on a string and then a laser pointer tonight. He was going crazy, jumping 4 feet into the air and climbing the walls. Then he started doing something I’ve never seen a cat do before – he started panting. Just like a dog, he stuck …
What’s wrong with this picture? The green line represents the fastest way to get from the peninsula to the north bay. Usually, the shortest distance between two lines is a straight line; not when San Francisco is involved. We went up to Bodega Bay today and this was the route we took. The alternative was …
“‘Cool’ would be the last thing someone would use to describe me as I sit here on a Saturday night, quilting in my pajamas.” — Anne, my ultra-cool wife