Category: Life
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Bridge Collapse
This is just a note to anyone that knows me that neither I nor Christina was anywhere near the 35W bridge collapse today in Minneapolis. Watching it on the news is jarring though, as I routinely drove over that bridge when I lived in the Cities and was going to the U. As I see…
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Con is the opposite of pro
From this AP story about Congress holding Harriet Miers in contempt: The House Judiciary Committee approved a contempt of Congress citation Wednesday against [one-time White House counsel] Harriet Miers. The Justice Department said it would block the citation from prosecution because information Congress is demanding is protected by executive privilege. Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi said…
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Flickrdog
This is Sam, the resident pet at the Yellowstone Basin Inn in Gardiner, Montana, where we stayed for a night on our way back from Yellowstone. (A very nice place, by the way. I highly recommend it.) After a week away from the Internet, his Flickr-colored tags seemed to be saying, “Come back, Chris… Come…
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Hi Leah!
We had planned on camping at Yellowstone last night, but temperatures in the low 30’s and the hours of snow persuaded us otherwise, so instead we drove through Grand Teton National Park and then spent the night in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. No Dick Cheney sighting yet, but I’m keeping an eye out for him. Today…
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Where are they now?
(Not that anyone asked.)
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Ambition
I’ve decided that my current goal in life is to someday be cool enough to have a guest blogger on my site. That’s when you know that you’ve “made it.” If you’d like to be my guest blogger, send my a few examples of posts you’d write. Ideally, they should be about me and either…
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Own a piece of history
For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw…
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A gift from ages past
My family was in town this week, and my dad brought with him a gift for me. He related to me how they had been doing some cleaning at their church, going through some areas of the old building that had been neglected for far too long, when a staff member came across an interesting…
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Little-known fact
Little-known for a reason.
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Software isn’t the only thing I build
Christina and I just finished remodeling the stoop in front of our house. What used to be crumbling concrete steps covered in peeling outdoor carpet is now a wider and more inviting stairway complete with flower boxes and new handrails. Except for the handrail parts, we designed and built it ourselves from scratch (scratch being…
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What do I think of this article?
Meh.
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Traffic added to Google Maps
Google has added a traffic overlay to its map service, and they’ve miraculously included the Twin Cities metro area. I never go anywhere, but my wife is going to love this.
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ScribeFire Development
FYI: I’ve been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I’ll be posting about its progress occasionally.
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Prison
I found this poem today that I wrote in college. I think I used to be much more cynical. Prison They trudge out to the Yard Wearing the standard-issue uniform, Forming single file lines to get their designated time of fresh air. The new ones, the fresh meat, Cower, fearing the cruelty of the “old…
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Life is good
It’s a Friday, Netscape 9 development is humming along, tonight is Casino Night at my wife’s work, I found and bought a Wii today, and tomorrow is my birthday. Life is good.
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Best
WeekWife EverI have the best wife ever. For Valentine’s Day, Christina got me Pixar’s Cars videogame for the Nintendo Wii with an “IOU One Wii” note attached. Then, we had a Super Nintendo MarioKart tournament (her idea). Oh, and her card to me included the phrase “If you were a booger, I’d pick you first.” Sigh……
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Guilty as charged…
Busted…
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Looking Foxy
My “Firefox 2 Addons Team” t-shirt finally arrived in the mail! I’ll have to look into getting AOL to spring for shirts that say “I worked on Netscape 9 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a great browsing experience.”
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The A to Z of me
I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…
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Everybody needs a hand sometimes