If I was at Google, I think my 20% project would be adding voice support to Google Calendar. It would be pretty sweet to be able to press a button on my phone and say “February 3rd, 3PM, doctor’s appointment, remind 1 hour”. It would read back what it heard and you’d say “confirm” to [...]

It’s official. Esther and I are now married. We don’t have any photos from the wedding (on our cameras), but it’s assured that we will be receiving digital pictures of us in various staged and unstaged poses. When we do, we’ll post them somewhere.

Naturally, we monitor our traffic very closely, watching for any major dips. When there are dips, we try to explain them somehow. Often the dips correspond to external factors such as holidays. For example: traffic is particularly low on Christmas. No surprise there.
Last midnight UTC (2008-09-04 00:00:00) traffic to our gay site plummeted, while traffic [...]

Esther and David at some overlook in the North Cascades

After a year and a half together, Esther and I are getting married. The number one decision to make is the place, since it leads us to picking a time and scheduling food and licensing and [...]

I’ve learned something today. Apparently, there’s more than one way to round a number. There’s the easy, “common” method that everyone learns, where you simply look at the digits you want to zero-out, and if the first digit is >= 5 you round up, and <= 4 you round down.
And then there’s the number-nerd way [...]

Kelmanskiy and 125 other soldiers assigned to Fort Lewis’ newest Stryker Brigade Combat Team are part of a new program to teach soldiers rudimentary Arabic. The idea is that once deployed to Iraq, they’ll be able to communicate with local Iraqis to help their units better distinguish between allies and enemies.
Fort Lewis soldiers learn Arabic [...]

Esther and I have moved to Kirkland, in to the first apartment we’ve picked together. I grew up in Kirkland, so I feel pretty familiar with it. We’re in a nice area, surrounded by trees and near a state park, and across the street from a bowling alley, a grocery store, and a few other [...]

Goatseasaurus was once here, but Google “did evil” and took it down. Anyone happen to know where else it goes? I wonder if Spore can be easily hacked to upload videos to non-YouTube sites.