February 18, 2008Accessibility makes it to the Super Bowl ad frenzyHere’s a great ad. Click it to start. PS. You don’t need to adjust the audio on your computer. Categories General Comments: 0
February 9, 2008Lost and found in SFThursday night I was wandering around SF with a friend who was in town for a training (she was born and raised in SF, but has been in NC for almost 20 years). After going up Coit Tower (neither of us had before!), we wandered up the curvy part of Lombard Street on our way to a restaurant (Alive on... Categories General Comment: 1
January 20, 2008Drive 55! Save gas and fight global climate change Categories General/Travels Comments: 0
January 20, 2008Please don’t use Internet ExplorerIt’s not just that it’s by Micro$oft. It’s that it’s not standards compliant. A little bit of history: When the web first started to use browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.), folks weren’t quite sure how to write the code so it would display “correctly” on every browser. Slowly, standards were developed, with the goal of writing HTML and other web... Categories Computers and the web Comments: 0
January 19, 2008A great article on Peace by an old friendI’m helping to organize my Berkeley High 30th year reunion this fall, and in the process am catching up with some old friends as well as making some new ones (BHS was–and still is–a big school, you didn’t know everyone). Joey Yovino-Young wrote a great piece in the Berkeley Daily Planet that I’d recommend: In the Beginning is the Word. Categories General Comments: 0
January 8, 2008A web site you can track your cars MPG and compare it to others.GasSavers.org is kind of a cool web site. You can record your gas mileage there (you enter the date, amount of gas, and miles drive), and compare to others who have a car similar to yours. But beware, lots of the folks there are “hypermiling: using all sorts of driving techniques and physical modifications to their car to get better... Categories Travels Comments: 0
August 14, 2007I’m home!!!I’m home, it’s midnight, and I have an 8:30 meeting tomorrow (today!) morning, so I’m off to bed. I’ll write more about my last couple days soon. Categories Travels Comments: 0
August 12, 2007Sleeping in SeattleWell, I arrived in Seattle on Friday evening. I stayed with Bob and his wonderful fiancee Etsuko. Saturday Bob had to work (ah, the joys of owning your own business), and I slept the morning away. When I finally got up I hung out in a local cafe, Java Jazz, and caught up on emails and some ShopInBerkeley new pages... Categories Summer 2007 Comments: 0
August 10, 2007Too tired in Spokane.Today I drove a bit over 500 miles, and made it to Spokane Valley (just east of Spokane), WA. Winnett, MT was fun, I’ll write more and post some photos tomorrow (or, I guess it’s “later today” now). Categories Summer 2007 Comments: 0
August 8, 2007Into North DakotaI made it across the Mississippi today! Guess that means I’m in “the West.” I crossed the Big Muddy where it isn’t so big, nor so muddy, in Brainerd, MN. If memory serves me right, Brainerd is the city where Marge Gunderson is from in the movie Fargo. Well, put a physics teacher behind the wheel of a car for... Categories Science Education/Summer 2007 Comments: 0
