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Today was all about debugging. We had an insane outbreak of fire ants last week -- the exterminator came today. Also, I quashed the last two bugs for our current milestone -- hooray, now I get to move on the giant backlog for the next milestone.
Dear universe, fuck off, this kind of metaphor/reality shit isn't funny any more. Srsly.
Yesterday's Scary Go Round is kind of charming, although I don't know how entertaining it will be to non-followers of the strip. But who wouldn't follow this strip? It's grrreat.
Brother Chris and I went down to the Congress Avenue Bridge to see the bats.
After that, we took some arty shots of downtown lights on long exposures.
We concluded by rocking, and not bothering knocking.
Boing boing points us to The Amazing Screw-On Head, a pilot that the SciFi channel is airing on the web. It's brilliant. If you like Mike Mignola (of Hellboy), you'll like this.
Also found -- Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series of books, which I like immensely, appears to finally be being turned into a TV series. You can find a promo on the SCIFI web site. I'm not superthrilled about the casting, but... we'll see.
PhotographyBLOG has an interesting post on a technology demo from Microsoft called Photosynth, which stitches together photos into a 3D panorama that you can navigate in. There's some cool -- but still pie in the sky -- thoughts about the massive indexing you might do to navigate the entire world of photos in this way, using your own snapshots as entry points into exploration. The promotional video is at least 50% fluff (you can skip most of the first half), but has some interesting nuggets.
Dreamhost, our hosting provider, has posted a very informative account of the recent hosting woes that have been fallout from record heat in CA and various power issues.
The issues have been frustrating, but DH's frankness in describing the problems and what steps are being taken to remedy them are what I like to see out of a company. Hopefully we'll see the rest of the lingering issues cleaned up soon, if they haven't been already.
We just got back from an overlapping work trip -- Carrie was in San Jose for BlogHer (as was Skye), and I was in Cupertino catching up on some long overdue meetings. Then we both kicked around for the weekend in sunny CA and met up with folks, including Nigel (who was also in town on work!) and large chunks of my family who drove down from Sacramento and met us in Oakland.
Before finally heading for the airport, we did sneak off to see the ocean, at bee-yoo-tiful Half Moon Bay. I finally indulged myself and picked up a Canon SD700 IS ELPH for the occasion; I love my SLR, but it's bulky enough that I don't want to take it for casual photography. So, after two years of pining, we decided it counted as a birthday present :). It's ideal for casual photography -- I couldn't be happier.
