December 2006 Forty-five posts

• 21-Dec-2006
  Happy Anniversary, Baby two years ago leah and i got married. There’s even some audio. And more. (the best kind of) ONWARD.
• 20-Dec-2006
  Daily Links Crossing borders: JavaScript’s language features Appreciations of the power of JavaScript are coming out all the time. (tags: development javascript programming webdev tutorial)

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• 19-Dec-2006
  Daily Links Google Browser Sync clever clever. (tags: google browser tools howto firefox) The Trac Project – Trac project tracking. open source. better than bugzilla? (tags: via:alabut management opensource software svn webdev development project) Ian Gilman – Software & Web – Heaven & Earth (tags: free games history puzzle download)

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• 19-Dec-2006
  Image of the Day He cracks me up, despite myself. Explained.
• 19-Dec-2006
  WebSanDiego.org evolving I think I mentioned that the San Diego web sites are no longer in my hands. Well, here’s yet more evidence that my letting go was the right move — WebSanDiego.org is set for more changes. Very exciting stuff.
• 18-Dec-2006
  Daily Links eBaySDForum2006-11-29.pdf (application/pdf Object) Great PDF on how eBay scales the way it does. (tags: architecture java programming pdf howto database)

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• 18-Dec-2006
  Wienermobile! I kid you not, this morning on my commute to work I saw the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile travelling south on the 101 around Newbury Park, California. It was a delightfully surreal moment for me.
• 17-Dec-2006
  1946 Nightmare Pottersville = 2006 Las Vegas One of the great cliches of Christmastime is the airing and re-airing of It’s a Wonderful Life. Jim Kunstler, writer of the excellent Geography of Nowhere he of with a blog name that is not safe for work.  writes about the parallel universe vision of George Bailey’s Pottersville, and how it bears a close resemblance...
• 16-Dec-2006
  Daily Links Texas Monthly: BurkaBlog: Protest at SMU Targets Bush Library The letter to Turner makes the point that there are “two fundamentally different visions of the Library”: a neutral space for unbiased academic research conducted by scholars, or a conservative think tank and policy institute that engages in legacy polish (tags: politics history) PopMatters TV Feature...

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• 14-Dec-2006
  David Byrne and David Letterman When I was a teenager, these men were my heroes. Byrne is gawky, nervous, perhaps not entirely there, and a bit spooky. Letterman is a lovable jerk, always projecting a detached, superior irony. I saw myself in them at the time. What does it mean that my teenage self (age 13-17 mostly, and beyond) it...