Happy Birthday Brennan!

23 years and rolling! Keep it up boy!

What may happen in the next 100 years

Some interesting reading from 1900.

Sepia Image Filtering Using SVG

I couldn't find a sample of how to do this anywhere on the web, so I thought I'd contribute something useful to society by posting it. Hopefully the next person who Googles it will turn up my page, and it will save them some time. Knowing how heavily used SVG is, it may never happen, but at least I feel like I've done something beneficial to the world.

Dave's SVG Sepia Filter Demo

Earthquake

Just had a good shake here. 5.6 a couple miles north of us.

More details

Really felt it here...couple of things fell off of shelves. Biggest one I've felt since we've been here.

Haha...I'm gonna get my ass kicked!

So...I am sure some of you must have heard my rants before about the pit bouncers, and RCMP regarding use of force. There was an article in the Georgia Straight about private security causing problems around Vancouver and how the Police aren't responding to complaints about them. So in a moment of inspiration I wrote a letter to the Georgia Straight hoping to spark some sort of reaction somewhere...


...it'll be fun going to work this weekend! ;)

Adventures in the Culinary Arts

No I don't just get stuck sitting in front of a computer all day...

just most of the time :)

Big Blue Tahoe

This year's big race for me was Tahoe Big Blue. With Shooting Star Adventures having shut down, Big Blue adventures in now pretty much the only game in town in the Silicon Valley area. I was racing solo, but my good friends the PowerStrangers were racing as well, so at least I had some folks out on the course who may stop to throw me some food if they saw me curled up in a ball on the side of the course.

Jen and I headed out to Tahoe on Thursday night, hoping to avoid the Friday traffic. Believing in the power of Google Maps, we followed it's instructions right into downtown San Francisco at 1700, basically forcing us into gridlock traffic. After spending 2 wonderful hours getting from Google to Oakland, we were on our way. We were staying up at the Hearst cabin (thanks Dave + Nancy!) which was great because it allowed us to bring Taita, and to be sure we had some place for Keira to play.