Good News from Microsoft

On 7/31/2005, In Browsers, Internet, Web Dev, By Will

Ever since Microsoft announced it was releas­ing an Inter­net Explorer ver­sion 7, web design­ers and devel­op­ers have been sit­ting on the edges of their col­lec­tive chair, bit­ing their nails, and cross­ing their toes in hopes that this time, Microsoft will get it right.

So far, it appears they are lis­ten­ing, and through the help of the Web Stan­dards Project’s Microsoft Task Force, the IE devel­op­ment team has announced all of the things they will be fix­ing in IE7.

Tonight, I shall rest.

 
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Poop

On 7/29/2005, In Family, General, By Will

Poop is great. That’s what I have to keep telling my two-year old, who is potty train­ing. I never imag­ined I would ever be so involved in someone’s bod­ily func­tions so inti­mately. It’s kinda strange how you don’t really find it that gross when it your kid’s poop.

He has not been wear­ing a dia­per dur­ing the wak­ing hours for well over a week now. The acci­dents have stopped over the last few days, partly because we ask him if he needs to tin­kle every 10 min­utes, and partly because he has started telling us when he needs to. Hope­fully the for­mer will be replaced by the lat­ter more and more.

The only remain­ing chal­lenge is the poop­ing, which he is still scared to do out of his dia­per. I don’t blame him. We have read him Every­one Poops count­less times, and he likes it, but we haven’t passed over that hump yet, and he hasn’t passed that hump in the potty yet, if you know what I mean.

We aren’t in too much of a hurry. The goal is to have him off dia­pers by the time the next baby comes in Novem­ber, but if he isn’t quite ready, it’s OK.

So how’s that for a blog post? Eh?

 
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Google Moon

On 7/20/2005, In General, By Will

As if by magic, Google rolled out some­thing I was think­ing would be cool, but never thought would really hap­pen, and that is Google Moon. You can now peruse the moon’s land­scape, check out the ter­rain, and see where past mis­sions have landed. To prove Google isn’t too big to have a sense of humor, you can zoom all the way in and see that the moon is really made of cheese.

And if you haven’t yet, check out Google Earth, one of the coolest appli­ca­tions to come out in a long time. And it’s free.

 
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It’s A Boy Person

On 7/12/2005, In General, By Will

Boy 1

Boy 2

 
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Duffin’

On 7/10/2005, In General, By Will

Much to my own suprise, I have been get­ting into the game of golf. Had you asked me a year ago, I would never have given the game any thought. How­ever, I have been way into it the last cou­ple of months, and I am get­ting better.

The first cou­ple of times I played, I was ter­ri­ble, not know­ing how to stand or swing or any­thing. I was lucky to even hit the ball at all. But last week­end a buddy from work took me to the dri­ving range and showed me some fun­da­men­tals. All this week I prac­ticed swing­ing in the back yard, get­ting the feel for the clubs and learn­ing to shift my weight correctly.

Today we went out and played, and I had a chance to show off my new skills. I shot a 64. Ok, so we only played 9 holes, but I didn’t do worse than a 7 on any hole except one. Yes, that is quite ter­ri­ble for those of you who are not golfers (as if you read this far any­way), how­ever, it was by far my best game (and only the third I have played). I am def­i­nitely get­ting the feel for it, and look for­ward to many days this sum­mer out on the greens.

 
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