Wow, time flies. I haven’t posted in over a week — seems like just a couple of days ago though. (more…)
8 weeks
Modern Computing
July 22, 2005
The other day I worked from home, a convenience of modern computer networks. Today it dawned on me exactly what I had done:
- Fire up laptop, log in to home network
- Remote log in to main work network
- From network, log in to remote web server
- From web server, log back into main work network
In addition, I was also logged into the Exchange mail server. In all, I was logged into 4 or 5 different networks (plus the Internet) at the same time. Oh, and I had a meeting to attend via my cell phone.
And I was actually rather productive.
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Overflow Saturday
July 19, 2005
Friday night Sarah and I had a lovely anniversary dinner while my parents watched Olivia.
Saturday morning we all sat on the front porch watching the rain with our coffee and cinnamon rolls.
Lots of rain. (more…)
Semantic Markup & Microformats
July 14, 2005
Beginning with Standards
During the past year I’ve become interested in using web standards and semantic markup. The idea is to separate content from presentation. For example, I have followed a variety of holy wars over the use of <i> (italics) and <em> (emphasis) elements. Italics are presentations, emphasis describes the content. The <i> element has been depreciated in favor of <em>, but that leaves a few things hanging. For instance, how should I code a book or movie title?
I follow the convention that book titles should be italicized, eg. The Stars My Destination. But if <i> has been depreciated, that leaves <em>, which isn’t the correct choice — I’m not emphasizing the title, I just want to note that it is a book title. (more…)
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Bronze Age
July 12, 2005
Happy anniversary Sarah.
I love you more now than when we got married 8 years ago. We’ve got a good life and I look forward to many more years with you (and Olivia).
Database Design – Round 2
July 9, 2005
In my first installment I related the thought process I went through to arrive at a first-pass database structure. Patrick help further refine the structure, and in general he helped me better understand how relational databases work. (more…)
Arlington
July 6, 2005
Having served in the Army, my dad discovered that he is eligible to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He and mom have decided that that is as good as anyplace to be buried; so, they are heading down later this summer for a minivacation and to get details on what they need to do to be buried at Arlington.
As weird as it may sound, I think this is really cool. As executor, it will fall to me to make sure everything happens, and fortunately my parents are really good about taking care of their own details. But let’s not worry about this for a long time, ok?
1 Month
July 4, 2005
Hard to believe that four weeks have gone by already. We’ve survived, though there are days we didn’t think we would. (more…)
