Big Basin

I’ve just posted some photos from our trip to Big Basin State Park about a month ago. I’ve modified the template a little from the temporary test album I posted a few days ago. I still don’t think the navigational tools are obvious enough yet (hint: you don’t have to user your browser’s back button). I need to find that fine line between obvious and non-distracting… someway to put “training wheels” in place initially that can be removed once the navigation conventions are learned. I have a feeling the answer may lie in browser cookies. Fun fun fun…

Silence Is Golden

These past few weeks have been really busy for me at work, so much so that I’ve been doing a bit of work during my commute on the train. I usually write most of my entries while on the train so I haven’t had much time to work on updates. However, before too much time passes I figure I may as well post on what I have been up to recently: working on some site updates, travelling back to Michigan to see the family, and preparing for fatherhood. Continue reading →

Choo Achoo

I’ve just had terrible luck with transportation recently. This past weekend it was the missed airline connection in Atlanta. This morning it was my morning commute. The train in front of us broke down. Rather than go into the details, lets just say that I’m pretty mad at how the Caltrain conductors handled the situation. Few announcements were made over the intercom to inform the us of what was going on. In the end I was an hour and a half late for work. I had left the house at 7am and didn’t get into work until 10am when I’m usually in by 8:30am.I told Jennifer about the fiasco. “Planes, trains, and automobiles… I hope nothing is going to go wrong with either of our cars.” To which Jennifer responded, “Actually, I started driving to work today and the temperature indicator lit up on the Cabrio before I even left the parking lot. So I turned around and took the Subaru instead.”*sigh*

Geek Humor

I saw the following quote in the signature at the end of a post on Slashdot today. I nearly fell out of my chair once I “got it”.There are 10 types of people in the world; Those who understand binary and those who do not.