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  • 2009
    • December
      • Winter in the bay 2010
        12/28/09
        For whatever reason, winter time seems to be the time of year in my life when the most changes happen.

        This year I'm heading to Utah, Montana and Tahoe for some snowboarding action followed by a big move from Oakland into San Francisco at the end of January. I really like the east ba

    • March
      • Houston made me have a crazy dream
        03/12/09
        I park my car at this broken down church, there are no spots so I park in the middle of the bushes, the attendent doesnt seem to be conscious.

        I walk down the street looking for the unmarked front window of my massage place until I find the blue glass and head up the elevator. It opens i

      • The Case of the Lost IPHONE!
        03/09/09
        Last Thursday Slide took the whole company (or those that were interested) on a day of skiing goodness at Northstar resort in North Lake Tahoe. The morning started at 4AM with a pint of good Jamaican rum, a flask halfway filled with top notch mescal and all my gear loaded in the back of the Golf. I

  • 2008
    • November
      • 2:30 AM Upgrading Word Press
        11/19/08
        So while I wait for WordPress to upgrade, so that I can blog on AdamChristian.com I decided that I would drop by t0asted and throw out an update. This last weekend Matt Eernisse and Jeff Olds were both in town and it was Jacob Robinsons birthday so we all ate some delicious Persian food and wandered

    • September
      • So my backpack was stolen in the Mission
        09/18/08
        Basically after a long day in Mountain View, Mikeal and Clint and I were in the Mission at Beretta and when we returned to the car, the window was busted and both our backpacks were gone. Clint was parked elsewhere -- lucky guy.

        Anywhoo, the backpack contained my MB Pro, passport, checkbo

      • How is John McCain still even in this election
        09/18/08
        Yes, yes.. if you are a Mccain supporter your mouth just started running like a faucet, but for me this election is about two things; Economy, and Energy (it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that these are connected).

        Before we start this argument, please read the following:
      • Why hello t0asted!
        09/04/08
        So yes, I have been working my ass off for the last couple months.. but I have also been having some fun.

        Most notably we spent the long labor day weekend up at beautiful Lake Tahoe which was absolutely a blast. Saturday and Sunday were nice and sunny and warm, and somehow Monday decided

    • August
      • Trapped in Canada, Mozilla Summit 08
        08/01/08
        At the moment, I am sitting in the lobby of the Westin Hotel & Spa in Whistler BC. I first must preface this entry by saying that I have had an amazing week, and a great time here. I thank Mozilla for putting on a really cool experience, and I do not regret coming up here one bit. Also in betwee

    • June
      • Leaving Rearden Commerce, Announcing new BLOG
        06/27/08
        Today was an interesting day, I resigned from Rearden Commerce.. and now I am announcing a new blog.

        For the last few years t0asted has been my only blog, so anything I wanted to write about -- be it professional, silly, etc. all came here. However I have seen a growing need recently to s

      • UpNorth Web Design Inc.
        06/21/08


        This is more of a side note, but since I did find our logo while I was looking through my backups today I figured I might as well do a short post.

        UpNorth Web Design took many of the ideas from my previous small ventures about doing contract web design/development and made the

      • I forgot how much fun Photoshop can be
        06/21/08
        Two years ago new years we attended a great party in Bellingham, WA. I had a great time -- can you tell?



        Liquify is the coolest photoshop filter ever made.

      • BoxBay Computers Inc.
        06/20/08
        As promised, my first entry in a line of startups that never happened is about 'BoxBay Computers Inc.'.

        Conception
        The original idea came from a trip to CompuCare to buy a bunch of computer parts for a machine I was building. I drug along a friend of mine and my parents pr

      • Business Ideas Category
        06/18/08
        Over the past ten years I have started in on countless business startup ideas. This is a great example of how low percentage 'my spaces' and 'facebooks' are in their survival. These different ideas have been in many market spaces and targeting totally different groups of people,

      • Marvel Studio Saves the Summer
        06/16/08
        Last night I saw the new Incredible Hulk movie and a few weeks ago I saw Iron Man. With movies based on comic books I am always a bit skeptical considering that the comics were able to avoid any constraints imposed by concepts of reality. When these stories are ported to feature films the public is

    • May
      • Graduation is Upon Them
        05/21/08
        It's that time of year again -- the sun is out, the birds are singing and it's time for this years graduates to throw their cap and celebrate. I remember it like it was yesterday... actually I remember it like I was exhausted, overwhelmed, very emotional and ready to crawl into a hole and

    • April
      • Windmill 0.4 Released
        04/23/08
        Tonight we released Windmill 0.4, easy_install -U windmill .

        Since the OSAF shake-up we have been very distracted with all kinds of things, and if it hadn't been for the community asking for features and actively using Windmill it wouldn't have seen a fraction of the attention

      • Web Development in IE, no longer quite so painful.
        04/23/08
        As a web developer you are probably aware of that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that you suffer when posed with the idea of testing your freshly written JavaScript that works perfectly in FireFox.

        For years now, we have had to 'suck it up', and pour a glass of scot

      • General Updates
        04/08/08
        Yesterday Kansas won the NCAA basketball national championship, congratulations. I give the Pac 10 teams a high five for doing as well as they did, WSU and Stanford made it to the sweet 16 and UCLA the final four.

        This last weekend Meg and I spent in the Carmel Valley, the sun was shinin

    • March
      • Competitions
        03/21/08
        I would like to note that the Washington State University - Cougar Basketball Team won their first game in the NCAA Tournament yesterday and are now slated to play Notre Dame on Saturday. It's exciting to see them competing with the big boys, when I was in Pullman the record was a little bit le

      • Eclipse and the MacOSX bug in syslogd
        03/21/08
        Working with an application that has a Java back-end these days I have been experimenting with all kinds of new tools to make my life easier. The biggest problem is quickly navigating the immense directory structure to find where to put my code. Thus far the best at doing that particular task for th

      • Doing Real Work in a Linux VM
        03/21/08
        Running VM's has become a necessary part of a the work day for a lot of developers, and sometimes you don't know exactly what you will be doing in the VM when you are creating it. I ran into this frustration when I tried to pull a whole application repository into the VM, and then run a mu

      • This Week in Code Podcast
        03/10/08
        In an effort to keep in touch, keep up on the weekly happenings in the technology and just generally shoot the shit Mikeal, Matt and I are doing a weekly podcast called 'This Week in Code'. You can get to the audio tracks at http://thisweekincode.com. We did episode one yesterday, we actua

      • MacBook Air, Two Weeks In
        03/03/08
        I would like to start out by saying, I don't really care what the billions of reviewers, bloggers and naysayers think about the Macbook Air -- it's a fine piece of machinery. I have had the chance in the last two weeks to have a MacBook, Macbook Pro Core Duo 17', Macbook Pro Core 2 Du

      • First Week at Rearden
        03/03/08

        Last week may have been the first week that I went to an office for work all five days since I graduated in May 2006. Fortunately my fears of a five day commute and survival in an office turned out not to be much of problem for me. Just like any other person driving a car between 8am and 12 no

    • February
      • Volunteering for the Heuga Center for MS
        02/11/08
        Saturday Meg and I volunteered for the Heuga Center for Multiple Sclerosis. When we headed up there at 7:30 AM we weren't exactly sure what it was that we were getting ourselves into, but were pleasantly surprised to find out that we were part of the team who got to ski/board all over the mount

      • Following up the Gimp
        02/10/08

        I thought that my loyal readers may be interested to know my results using GIMP to actually replace my daily needs of Photoshop. In case you were wondering, I am aware that the text header I have right now is a bit boring -- and if I had good results here I would also have a new and interestin

      • New Look, New Domains
        02/08/08
        Some of you may have noticed that I have switched up the theme a bit, I started to feel like the old look was getting a bit stale. It might be that everything else in my life is changing so the blog might as well too! If you think it's ugly, let me know -- the old look is three button clicks aw

      • Giving GIMP Another Look
        02/08/08

        It has been a few years since I gave GIMP another chance, but today since my laptop was dead I needed to do some simple image work. I jumped on http://wilber-loves-apple.org/ and grabbed their GIMP dmg, extracted it and fortunately I had the X Server installed so GIMP popped right up.
      • Lone Peak and 110 More Miles of Yellowstone
        02/08/08
        The last few days have been extremely active up here in Big Sky. The weather has been fantastic and with Megs folks in town we ventured out to find more Montana outdoor awesomeness. We spent a day skiing the Big Sky Resort, which is amazingly huge and has some of the best runs I have ever experience

      • MacBook Air, My Next Mac?
        02/07/08
        One of the things that comes along with being laid off in the computer industry is that all that nice hardware you are using that the company provided needs to go back to the company. Fortunately OSAF was nice enough to allow me to hang onto my laptop for a month to make a smooth transition to my ne

      • Concluded Job Hunt
        02/07/08
        After a month of intense phone conversations, flights to the bay area and deep thought I have finally accepted an offer. On February 25th I will be starting at Rearden Commerce in Foster City CA as a Software Engineer in Web Development. More specifically I will be joining the team building universa

      • Super Bowl Birthday
        02/03/08
        It turns out that this year the Super Bowl has hi-jacked my birthday, leaving me no choice but to watch Football and consume alcoholic beverages for the better part of the day. Who am I rooting for? Of course I'm rooting for the Pats. I raise my beer to all my family back east and hope they enj

    • January
      • The snow is still insanely fluffy
        01/24/08
        Just incase you were wondering, the snow is still amazing. Today was 24 degrees, sunny clear, and great for cruising.



        Doesn't it look like we are having fun?


      • More on the job hunt
        01/24/08
        Monday I headed to the bay area to meet up with a couple companies about this whole 'find a new job' situation I'm currently dealing with. The experience was rather intense not fully because of the grill sessions you are privy to as a developer, but because flying anywhere when it

      • The King of Big Sky
        01/24/08
        So Meg and I have done a little research about this mysterious dude we have seen a few times wandering around Big Sky Montana and we have made some headway. Just seeing this guy cracks me up by the pure awesomeness of the fact that he can live in a rad limo with the coolest haircut I have ever seen.

      • Touring Yellowstone
        01/20/08
        Yesterday we decided it would be a good idea to get up at 6am, drive down the treacherous highway 191 in the dark, put on many layers of Arctic gear and spend 8 hours cruising through Yellowstone on a snow mobile. We saw Buffalo, Elk, Coyotes and swans as well as miles of amazing woods, rivers and g

      • Montana Livin'
        01/13/08
        We have now settled into Montana and are having fun exploring. The wildlife amazes me out here, Big Horns, Moose, Elk, Deer and wolf tracks in the snow. We took a trip to Bozeman to check out MSU, the Museum of the Rockies and get some reasonably well priced groceries. It's pretty impressive ho

      • Job Prospecting
        01/10/08
        It has been less than a week I am already watching my OSAF peers getting hired off into many different directions. I find it really interesting to see the opportunities , and decisions people make when moving on to their next employment role. OSAF provided a really flexible and laid back environment

      • First Impressions of Moonlight Basin, Healing Hand.
        01/10/08
        Yesterday we slept in a little bit, and then headed up to Moonlight Basin for our first day in the snow. It was absolutely amazing to be able to eat breakfast at 11:00 AM, get dressed and be on the lift by noon. We quickly realized that we are out of shape, in fact this was the first time in my life

      • A New Stage in Life Heading into 2008
        01/09/08
        Wednesday night while preparing for some dinner with my family I was taking out the compost wearing shoes that didn't fit me, and on my way back to the house from the back porch I slipped. To steady myself I reached back to put my hand against the wall -- and the wall was a window. My hand wen

  • 2007
    • December
      • Road Tripping the West Coast in December
        12/23/07
        Road tripping the west coast in December

        Wednesday night I went into hyper speed running around packing and preparing for my trip up to Washington, and later to Montana. As I got in the zone I didn't realize that all the sudden it was 4 am, and I was planning to get up and leave at 6

      • The Expansion of My World
        12/06/07
        Over the past month Mikeal and I have been cranking away at a couple projects we dreamed up and finally this week we are live, but still bug fixing. In the past I have used my blog to rant about my open source programming discoveries, and various other specifically technical issues. I have also used

    • November
      • Diving head first in the Custom Google Maps
        11/13/07
        Over the last few weeks I have been dreaming up a great idea for a Web 2ish mash-up project. Unfortunately I don't really know very many people other than me that would actually use it, but I think I'm going to build it anyways in the time that I should probably be sleeping or doing pretty

    • October
      • Safari 2 and Math.random()
        10/26/07
        We have had a couple weeks discovering interesting problems in Javascript, and one that I had been seeing for a long time but finally had a chance to dig into a couple weeks ago before the Windmill 2.0 release was a problem in Safari 2 with Math.random().

        This first showed it's gnarl

      • Windmill 0.2 Release
        10/17/07
        Yesterday we pushed out the 0.2 release of Windmill to the eagerly awaiting world of QA. (If you want it installing while you read on, 'easy_install windmill')

        For those of you who aren’t familiar with Windmill, it is a framework we have built at OSAF for automating tests agains

      • Windmill BayPiggies Presentation
        10/14/07
        Last Thursday Mikeal, Dan and I made our way down to Google to do a Windmill presentation for the Python fanatics as well as anyone else interested in what we were doing (BayPiggies is a Python Users Group in the Bay Area). We found at OSCON that any presentation with the word AJAX in it seems to at

      • Oakland 2.0
        10/03/07
        Life on the home front is finally calmed to a dull roar. After moving, a new kitten appeared at the house, and a new roommate was found to help manage the cost of the new house. Overall I would have to say I am very satisfied with the result of it all and considering the drastic changes other than A

    • September
      • Windmill gets a promotion
        09/24/07
        Windmill: http://windmill.osafoundation.org (if you didn't know) got a promotion today as OSAF is making it an official project. Windmill has grown by leaps and bounds since our debut at OSCON, and now with 5 very active committers we have solved many of the plaguing issues, re-architected all

      • Oaxaca in early January
        09/24/07
        At the moment I am working on putting together a little trip down south to Oaxaca Mexico to drink some delicious Mescal for a few weeks. The destination is: http://casaraab.com/dev/ but it's a dev site yet to be launched.. so shhh don't tell. The responses I have received make it clear tha

      • Internet Purgatory
        09/24/07
        Tonight I am at Cato's Ale House in Oakland Piedmont area to catch up on some blogging. My new house is fantastic, however the internet situation is less than ideal. Currently I am disconnected from the grid and it is a terrible experience. Nothing could possibly have made me so aware of my lif

      • Graycliff Crystal vs Davidoff No. 2
        09/14/07
        Somewhere in-between all the moving and certifying of releases and massive overhauls of Windmill I did get some time to sit down and smoke a couple stogies. My new bedroom has a small deck off it where I can go for a midnight smoked and a glass of water to wind down from the crazy events that have b

      • Summary of all the stuff that has been going on, I wonder if I could put a whole entry in this title field...
        09/14/07
        Usually I try to keep my blog entries very specific to a topic, to ensure that I cover that specific topic thoroughly. However there has been so much this month that I am going to give a bit of a summary of events and then follow up with more specific articles as I have time.

        Well, for st

    • August
      • Cosmo 0.7.0 Released!
        08/29/07
        It has been a bit of a trek, a learning experience and a lot of just grinding to get here. I know that everyone has worked extremely hard to get to this release, which OSAF is calling 'Preview'. This essentially means that we now feel comfortable with our solid beta and that you can use it

      • So you want to become an Open Source Geek?
        08/17/07
        Recently I have had multiple queries from my former college peers who are now graduated and ready to embark on their techie career. Since our university is in the state of Washington there is a lot of exposure to Microsoft products, however Open Source was neither ignored nor shunned but it wasn

      • Return of the iPhone, dun dun dun
        08/15/07
        I will be the first to admit my inability to keep my hands off new devices, but with this one I really tried. In fact I was trying so hard, that I convinced other people to stay away from the iPhone as well. My list of personal requirements for a phone device were met by my HTC 8525, and I did every

      • Finally, Reviewing the Nintendo Wii
        08/15/07
        A few weeks ago my friend and OSAF summer intern Jacob Robinson discovered a Nintendo Wii in a hot tub display at Costco in Concord CA. I have been mentioning my interest in acquiring one over the past months, so he quickly called me to inform me of the situation and I instructed him to buy it and b

    • July
      • More OSCON, Preview and OSAF Futures
        07/31/07
        OSCON was a huge success, we had a full room for the presentation followed by lots of very positive feedback. It appears that one person was taking notes during our presentation and does a pretty good rough overview which can be read here. Another place to read some interesting reactions of this yea

      • OSCON Update
        07/26/07
        As some of you may know, I am currently at OSCON in Portland. This morning we did a talk about our Web UI Testing Framework called Windmill which you can check out at the Windmill Home Page.

        I have attended quite a few talks including "Why you should learn compilers", "Deb

      • Boston and the 4th of July
        07/06/07
        On to my second topic, which was my trip to Boston that I just returned home from. I would like to give a shout out to my family back east, thanks for all the hospitality, lobsters, Samuel Adam's and good company. We had a great time tooling around the city, from the Historic downtown and water

      • iPhones and whatnot.
        07/06/07
        I just spent ten days on vacation in Boston. It's a very nice city and lots of fun and interesting things to see and do there. However, while I was there the infamous iPhone was released - no I don't own one.. yet? The media went crazy and the phones went flying off the shelves, I wasn

    • June
      • A weekend of Cigar BQ
        06/16/07
        Last weekend Martin, Jacob an I cruised up to Santa Rosa for the yearly Cigar BQ. Now some of you may think that this is a ridiculous idea, to pay $150 dollars to spend the weekend drinking all the wine you can get your hands on, and try some of the highest quality cigars around. However, I went out

      • Sorry for the down time
        06/05/07
        Before I forget, I posted a TON of new pictures that had been sitting on my camera on my google picasa account which you can access here: Pictures of stuff!

        So the last month has been very crazy, Meg graduated and moved back to the bay area.. yahoo! We had all kinds of fun up in Chico, bu

    • May
      • Mothers Day!
        05/13/07
        Hi Mom, I hope you had a wonderful breakfast. Birds chirping, morning dew still making the air smell clean and fresh. Today you are my only BLOG reader that I care to entertain.

        All of my life you have put up with all of my strangeness, blocking all the light from my bay window, building

    • April
      • Windmill - The real deal.
        04/19/07
        The Windmill project has taken on a following I hadn't expected. However I am really pleased and excited about the whole process. OSAF is now going to be supporting Windmill as an official project, every day we are adding more cool features simplifying the process for setting it up and using it

      • While we are on the topic of hair...
        04/18/07
        The man nation out there is super sensitive about hair loss, and you can read yourself to death about what people are saying, these new products that do this and that and I always wondered... what really controls the hair loss problem and I have done an experiment on myself that I think I have final

      • Don't underestimate the power of a sleeping mind
        04/18/07
        Sunday night Matt Eernisse (fleegix.org) arrived in the bay area to work in the OSAF office for two weeks. Monday night a crew of us went out for beverages to Cato's Restraunt and Pub and were up relatively late talking tech and jumped up at 8:30 on tuesday to head into the office. Needless to

      • Dive into Cigars
        04/17/07
        1. Padron 1964 Maduro

        This is the top sirloin of all the cigars I have had a chance to enjoy. It's a mild to strong smoke but you don't notice it as its so smooth and has a barely noticeable but pleasant after taste, which is very hard to find. It is the most expensive of all th

      • Beds and Breakfasts
        04/16/07
        I have been lucky enough the be able to review and recommend two bed in breakfasts in California that are completely different, but luxurious and relaxing in their own special way. The first is from a few months back Meg and I were down in Monterey for the day and we decided to hang around and look

      • HTC 8525 Review
        04/16/07
        I finally came to the cross in the road where I could no longer bear to continue on with my slvr r7, so I hastily ran to the Cingular store and dropped a whole bunch of money on something that I didn't really need.. which is sort of a dumb idea just before tax time, but what can I say - When it

      • Firefox Plugins
        04/16/07
        I usually find myself with three browsers open, FireFox (of course), Camino and Safari. I use the different browsers as another layer of organizational separation. I'm not really sure why I do this but its become a habit and makes sense in my head. As I will usually have development stuff going

      • Social Computing and Updates
        04/02/07
        First off, I am aware that I am about four blog entries behind and I do have photos and spread sheets with the content for all four of them so I will be doing that now that I will be on the computer 24/7 for the next 5 days. Until then I had an interesting thought about social computing.

    • March
      • The Smell Of Dirt
        03/19/07
        Last week was Spring Break for my friends at WSU, so they came down to visit. A couple weeks ago I realized that the nicer it got, the more I would want to be outside. I quickly realized that I had a good size back yard with grass up to my waist and weeds covering so much of the yard you couldn'

      • Instant Messaging Life Span
        03/06/07
        I read a pretty interesting paper done by Naomi S. Baron a student at American University that answerd some of the questions I had about the way Instant Messaging has integrated with 'real' life. You can view that in a pdf format HERE. As I was sitting here staring at my IM list that I hav

    • February
      • The monitor via untainted eyes.
        02/27/07
        I've been thoroughly intrigued and entertained by the young cat that lives in my house. She constantly wants to know how the computer monitor works because items there are impossible to touch, aren't 3d and have no smell or texture. However they are visually stimulating and she clearly kno

      • Cosmo 0.6.0 Official
        02/27/07
        Finally, Cosmo 0.6.0 is out the door for anyone to use who is interested. A lot of work went into this release and some really neat new features are there including read/write web ui calendaring, time-zones, recurrence massive amounts of bug fixes and cosmetic changes. I really recommend everyone go

      • And one more thing..
        02/20/07
        My cousin Jillian also has caught a bit of the Blogging bug, and since a few people read mine I think its an easy way to connect everyone else who is interested with hers! I was supposed to do this a few months ago.. but I forgot, so now she might have a little more motivation to start updating it.

      • Computer Vision Syndrome
        02/19/07
        So apparently they have qualified CVS as an official optometry term meaning "Computer Guy Vision Syndrome". Since those of us in the industry spend all day staring into a computer screen it is easy to develop vision problems. This is one of the draw backs of the business. However when I we

      • Quick Updates
        02/16/07
        Things have been crazy since my 23'rd birthday 13 days ago. We are trying to get a release out the door at OSAF of Cosmo 0.6.0 but unfortunately we have been so concentrated on making it near perfect that we are on the fifth RC build. But I think people will find it that much better when its fi

    • January
      • Flickr Update
        01/31/07
        I enjoy putting images up on my blog.. but it turns out that there is a much easier way. In the last couple years it has become so much easier to put pictures online. I used to have my personal Gallery that is actually still up, which required me to resize every image in GIMP and then upload them vi

      • Productivity and the Work Environment
        01/23/07
        As I noted in my last entry, I have changed the way that I am managing and editing my photos and it has made a world of difference. First off Photoshop CS2 built for PPC but running in Rosetta on an Intel Mac is a terrible idea. I have a Macbook Pro recently upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM and even openin

      • Well Suited.
        01/23/07
        I have picked out a few photos to visually represent my activities of the last month. I already described my great trip up to Washington, but today I finally got some images downloaded and resized to put online. This used to be an excruciating process, however now it is faster and easier than ever a

      • Holiday Season Recapitation
        01/12/07
        Woah! Been a while since I have had a chance to BLOG. Many things have happened since my last entry including a wonderful holiday season. I had the opportunity to spend some time with my family and friends in Bellingham Washington and make it upto Baker a few times to enjoy the massive amounts of sn

  • 2006
    • December
      • Back in Line.
        12/16/06
        It appears that the Holiday Season is now officially upon us. I have my radio turned to KOIT 96.5 FM for my continuous stream of cheer. This has prompted me to take a look around, firm up my Christmas list and just wish instead of presents.. I could convince everyone to meet up in Hawaii on the beac

      • Final Answer? FINAL ANSWER.
        12/07/06
        Many of you have been involved in the drama of the past few weeks. To recap: After 6 months working at OSAF I found myself in the position of deciding between a very cool full time job at GoFish.com, which is a very cool startup with their focus on online media. The position was a good fit and the

    • November
      • Projects, Work, and Life Strategy
        11/30/06
        This is a much belated blog entry, as I was trying to wait until I had solid answers to many of life's questions I must make peace with the fact that life is a constantly changed road... and one consistently finds themselves at a fork. I have a whole bag of worms I would like to spill, but I ca

      • Reunions and Holidays
        11/21/06
        This past weekend I attended a Family Reunion in Pasadena CA. My Grandpa Gordon's 87th birthday marked the first time my moms family has all been in one place since 1995. We had a great Mach thanksgiving dinner and watched some good competitive Pac 10 Football. Since I went to Washington State,

      • Another weekend, and Cold!
        11/13/06
        Weather for Berkeley, CA 54°F Light Rain. I'm starting to feel like the Northwest followed me down to the bay area. I have spent a lot of time on this whole AJAX thing over the last couple weeks. I read a book by fellow OSAFer Matthew Eernisse called "Build your own AJAX Web Applications&q

      • JavaScript, Dom, CSS and.. BART
        11/08/06
        To start off, I spent a few hours today writing the first stage of a web application I call "Your Stickys". It's basically a way to take all those sticky notes you put on your fridge and put them online. My next step is to add a user login/account creation page in front of it using a

      • Gambling with luck
        11/04/06
        Not everyday, everything can go your way. I have had many, many good days in a row and Thursday decided to break my winning streak. Wednesday I worked from Chico and we successfully released Cosmo 0.5, hooray! Wednesday night I had a wonderful dinner at an Italian place with Miss Megan, followed by

    • October
      • Happy Halloween!
        10/31/06
        Halloween is an interesting day isn't it? Can you guess who I am...

        Today at OSAF there are some people dressed up.. I am one of them and apparently they are having some sort of competition at lunch, which should be interesting.

        I think I'm going to commute up to Chic

      • JavaScript Fun and "The Plumbing"
        10/26/06
        I will start off with a cool little JS application that I have been working on.. well today and some last night. It is pretty amazing what you can do with JavaScript now-a-days and I decided to see how far I could get on a functional calendar.. and partially to give myself some scope as to what Matt

      • The Patio, Web Development Techniques
        10/26/06
        This week I discovered "The Patio", a cool little resteraunt in Berkeley. Apparently they have been struggling to stay afloat so I suggest everyone go have one of their delicious burgers. When I first wondered in there it was too late to get any food but I was starving and the cool gray be

      • Weekend of Exploration; and Recap
        10/24/06
        In the last month I have:
        Traveled to Pullman
        Checked out WWDC
        Sailed and Beach walked in Bellingham
        Partied at Mog.com
        Partied in Sacramento
        Seen Journey and Def Leppard in concert
        Seen football games at both Cal Stadium and McAfee Arena.

      • Seasons Changing
        10/20/06
        It's about that time of year where everyone needs to get their boards and wax out and prepare to get excited for SKI SEASON! Warren Miller is making his annual rounds with a new movie called "Off the grid" and the trailer is SICK. Tomorrow Washington is coming to Berkeley to loose to

      • Reading the unconcious mind
        10/18/06
        So when I went into my room last nite, I realized that the neighbors tv was louder than ever before and again it was midnight. I decided to call my landlord because this simply was not acceptable. He said that it was the crazy woman that lives below me, and that she sleeps all day and watches TV all

      • Opening up to this friendly form interface.
        10/17/06
        So I feel that I have sufficiently customized the sblog software to do what I want, and now I am going to start alerting the world of my adventures. Currently I am starting to plan my job and living situation, and working on a trip to see my family in LA in November. Last night however I went to Mik

      • Time to do some blogging
        10/17/06
        Apparently it is important to communicate with the world what I find important and or interesting. I am going to begin this process now.. stay tuned because this time I am finally going to start building this into my schedule. First I need to integrate this blogging stuff into my page, so it looks s