We found out on Valentines Day but we decided to wait a few weeks to tell you. My beautiful redhead is pregnant. Yes, we are going to find out its gender but we have to wait until week 20 for that. Right now its week 11. I’ll attach the week 8 ultrasound to this blog. It was so moving to see the baby on the screen and hear its heartbeat. Even at week 8, the baby is the size of a peanut yet its heartbeat is strong. [Read more…]
I’m Going to be a Daddy!
Our Trip to the Olympic Peninsula
My wife and I have been exploring the Pacific Northwest since the day we started dating. We’ve seen much of Washington and Oregon and will probably drive to Idaho and Montana this summer. This particular weekend, we spontaneously decided to explore the Olympic Peninsula and venture into the Olympic National Forest in an effort to photograph some of regions immense beauty. My friend Adam suggested we also spend some time in Port Townsend, a little artsy community on the northeastern tip of the peninsula. I spent Friday planning the trip with Google Maps and the Washington State Parks and Olympic National Forest homepages. We also bought a pair of coolers, important gear missing from our camping supplies. I grabbed my old boy scout dome tent, packed the jeep and headed west. [Read more…]
Posted by on 3 April 2008 at 12:09 PM
Filed Under: Camping, Hiking, Photography, Road Trips
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Coding Madness
Last week I went to the Portland scrap booking convention with my wife. I’ve done this before and I find it incredibly helpful to harness the creative atmosphere to fuel my own web design endeavors. While she cut and cropped, I sat in front of my laptop hacking PHP. I’ve always worked on my homepage with the intent of “finishing” it one day – but I’ve never come close. New technologies and new ideas to implement keep me from my goal. After this last scrap booking event I found inspiration to completely recode my site and move out of the HTML table mindset and join the new XHTML/CSS div tag cult. Well, it’s not exactly new.. but most modern browsers (except M$IE) are now able to render div tags properly, and when combined with CSS – they offer unparalleled utility. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish the recode and if I do perhaps it will finalize the structure of my homepage so I can finally concentrate on content.
Here is an outstanding tutorial on CSS positioning: http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/
IE Sucks
Mood: Very frustrated!
Internet Explorer sucks. Why? Becasue it doesn’t adhere to standards – it is a rogue browser and it needs to be deleted. Micro$haft sucks too! A Much better alternative is Mozilla Firefox. I highly recommend their e-mail client too.
My First Paper
Finally some published research. Yah!
Autonomous Underwater Multivehicle Control with Limited Communication
Sacrilege?
I’ve been seduced by the dark side and installed an unholy computer virus on my brand new Macbook Pro. This virus is commonly called Microsoft Windows Vista. Yes I did it… I installed Windows on my Mac.
::sigh::
Lonely Weekend
My beautiful wife is scrap booking with her sister this weekend in Oregon. So I’m here all alone :( So what do I do?…. Order Quiznos and watch zombie flicks! I highly recommend 28 Weeks Later.
Well… that’s just today (Friday). Tomorrow I’ll be knee deep in firmware as I try to design a working RF protocol for our transceiver board.
LOL. Take care everyone.
Our Honeymoon Journal
Rather than leave for the honeymoon right away, we stayed in downtown Seattle on the first night at the Inn at Harbor Steps. The room was spacious and luxurious, complete with a teddy bear on the bed! The bathroom was also well decorated and featured a 2-person Jacuzzi jet tub. The building that housed the inn joined a few other high rises in surrounding a lush garden courtyard area. Just below our window was a bench, designed to look like a toppled Roman arch. We ordered pizza for dinner because our caterers failed to follow through with their promise to send us off with some food from the reception. That night we also jacked into the hotel wired Internet so we could update Myspace and Facebook accounts to list us each as “married” :) [Read more…]