Archive for December, 2003

On Hiatus

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

Just in case anyone’s wondering… I’ve been away on vacation to the Philippines. We’ll be here until the 27th. Lots of wonderful pictures and stories to share when we get back.
Happy Holidays!

GPS Enabled Digital Cameras

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

The next big innovation in the digital camera industry has nothing to do with increased mega pixels, larger CCDs, or faster image processors. I think the next big thing in digital photography is GPS technology embedded right into the camera.
This past Summer, I bought a GPS receiver for use with Geocaching. And at [...]

Unleashed

Friday, December 5th, 2003

A few months ago, I wrote about a frightening experience with our dog (Truman) getting attacked. Earlier this week on the drive in to work, we heard Leslie Gordon’s (a San Francisco citizen) perspective on violent dogs and their owners [via KQED.org]. Her comments were triggered by a recent dog attack in Golden [...]

This Site is Now Compressed!

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

When I was hosting this site on my own server at home, I had mod_gzip and mod_deflate installed. But since I switched to a 3rd party host (modhost — great host by the way… cheap too!) I no longer had the ability to compress my HTML before it went out to a user’s browser.
By [...]