I jumped the gun on announcing my ‘Grom’ project. I realized today that my side projects are getting in the way of more important things.. namely my health. In an effort to get myself back into shape I decided to put all my little endeavors on hold for a while. Rather than leave a barely begun project on CodePlex I’ve decided to remove it for now.
It’s been a busy couple weeks and with the holidays in full swing I think I’ll be on hiatus for a while. Hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
I frequently bounce between Firefox (my preferred browser) and IE7 (which I use for work and other purposes) and I used to get very frustrated that when I would bookmark a page I couldn’t seem to remember which browser I bookmarked it in. I used to try and synchronize the bookmarks/favorites between the two programs but that got laborious and cumbersome until I found the PlainOldFavorites Firefox add-on. It places the standard Favorites menu common to IE and Windows in the Firefox menu making it a breeze to use bookmarks across browsers. Of course that means I’m not able to use the more advanced bookmarking that Firefox offers but it does keep things simple.
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Well I’m almost out of SPF 50 sunblock which means that we’ve been having a fun summer. If you think I’m joking about SPF 50, then you haven’t seen my beautiful white sheen; I have to stay looking young you know? (and prevent third degree burns).
Emily finally got around to putting up pictures from our Santa Barbara trip on her blog.
I’ve been busy with work lately as we’re preparing to release some code that I’ve been working on for the past four to six months.
We’ve been going to the pool almost every chance we get.
I’ve even made it to the theaters to see Transformers and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Consequently I’ve had almost no time to work on any personal projects, but… who cares when you’re having fun?
Don’t expect me to start reviewing products, but I think it’s only fair that when I find something I like that I give it a quick nod. We recently picked up a new Toshiba 9″ Portable DVD Player (model SD-P1900) from Best Buy for use on our Santa Barbara vacation. So far I quite enjoy it. When I was comparison shopping, I felt that the color representation and picture quality seemed superior to other models I saw that advertised higher resolution. I could best describe the picture quality on other models as “muddy” whereas this one was smooth and clear.
I think this blog is more for me than anyone else. In fact, in my opinion, the majority of blogs are pretty lame. I don’t think I really expect anyone to read or care about the items I chronicle here. Why should you? Rather, I have thoughts that bounce around in my head and need to get them out before they are lost forever. If anything, this will hopefully help me remember things that I would ordinarily forget.