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
Just last night I talked about video search and how if Google did it, it would be all over the news. Today, exactly that happened. Google announced a video seach product that doesn’t even search videos, but just closed captioning (poorly I must add) and it gets all kinds of press. A search for Yahoo …
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