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Wow, time flies. I haven’t posted in over a week — seems like just a couple of days ago though. (more…)

The other day I worked from home, a convenience of modern computer networks. Today it dawned on me exactly what I had done:

1. Fire up laptop, log in to home network
2. Remote log in to main work network
3. From network, log in to remote web server
4. 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.

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…)

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…)

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).