Home for Sale
We have recently put our house on the market. If you are interested in a four bedroom ranch with a walk-out basement that is in a very nice neighborhood, checkout our sale page or craigslit ad.
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May 16th 2010
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What Happened to ICP?
I know that I’ve been posting a lot of videos on the blog lately, but I just caught the video for the Insane Clown Posse’s song “Miracles”. It leads me to one question. What happened to ICP? I haven’t listened to them in a long time, but over a decade ago when I first started listening it was about being different, one might even say insane. Maybe it’s just me, but this last video is just a little to soft for the ICP I use to know. Below is the new video. I’ve also posted a couple of there older songs for comparison.
WARNING!!! These videos have very explicit lyrics.
Miracles
Posted on
April 7th 2010
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Media
IE is Being Mean to Me
I so feel this guys pain. I’ve been in the situation many times before trying to get javascript/html working cross browser.
Posted on
March 15th 2010
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Media
Blog Update
I’ve had it on my calendar for years to update this site. It hasn’t happened in the past because I’ve modified the theme so heavily that I knew it would take a long time to cleanup. This week I have started the process. Over the next week or two things are going to change. All these changes are going to take a couple of weeks to get in place. So until it’s all done you might see some strange things on this site. Bear with me while I do this. The site will be much better when it’s completed.
Posted on
March 9th 2010
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Is Three the New Two?
Since it took so long for us to become parents the first time, we had to realize it may never happen for us. Then shortly after our first son was born we found out that Rachel was pregnant with our second son. This lead us down the path of determining what the size of our family should be. We decided that three children would be the correct size for our family. Which we’ve recently achieved with the birth of our third son. We have recently noticed the trend with our friends was to have more than two children also.
Posted on
February 25th 2010
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Editorial
The Hidden Cost of Home Entertainment
At Christmas time we considered buying a new Blue Ray player. Last week we decided to get a Tivo. In recent years these devices have come down in price to what I consider reasonable.
Things like these have all kinds of hidden cost, but here is one you might not think about. Most modern equipment needs an internet connection to function properly. What many people may not know is that lots of Blue Ray players and DVRs do not come with built in WIFI. You could wire you house for Ethernet to get these online, but who really wants to do that? That means you have to buy a proprietary USB network adapter. An adapter you can only get from the manufacturer. These adapters usually run between $50 and $80 dollars.
If you do consider getting one of these "Home Entertainment" devices just make sure you know how it connects to the internet and if you will need one of these adapters.
** Update ** Chris Finke suggests purchasing an apple airport express instead of a network adapter. It doesn’t cost much more and gives you the opportunity to network some speakers.
The Price of Unrealistic Expectations
About 10 years ago all our friends were getting married. Five years ago they were all having kids. Now, many them are getting divorced. Rachel and I have noticed with this trend that it is the women in the relationship who are unhappy and looking to get out. We’ve mused on the cause of this and how do we improve the sanctity of marriage again. In these musings, We’ve come to the conclusion that in many of these cases, the root cause of the problem is unrealistic expectations. Expectations of what a man is, what a marriage is about, and what women are really looking for.
Posted on
January 20th 2010
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JavaScript Singletons in Firefox Add-ons
Occasionally when developing add-ons for Firefox, you want your JavaScript to only run once for the lifetime of the application. Normally, you would place your code in a browser overlay, but this causes the code to run every time a new window is opened. There are several ways to get around this. You could write an XPCOM service or use a JavaScript module. These are both valid methods and work very well if your code is Firefox specific. However, if you are also writing your add-on for Chrome, you might want the code to be able to run in both places. Here is a nice little hack that uses the hidden window so that you can run your Chrome background page within an iframe in Firefox.
Posted on
January 19th 2010
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Work
2009 Year in Review
I know I’m a little late getting this out, but I thought I would put together a “Holiday Letter”/”Year in Review” for my family.
This was big year for the family. Back in May we found out we were going to have another child. In August we found out we were having a boy and at the end of December Jackson was born. Both Noah and Wyatt are loving being big brothers. Noah turned four this year and started preschool. He goes three afternoons a week and he is really loving it. Wyatt is also enjoying every minute of his brother being gone. He turned three this year and is getting very big. Rachel continues to become more involved in the community. Along with her deaconess duties, she has also become a member of the Warren County Child Abuse Prevention Council. This year was my fifteen year high school reunion. Planning was much smoother than the ten year reunion and we had a pretty successful turn out.
Even with the recent layoff announcements by AOL, I am still gainfully employed with them and really enjoying my work. KwiClick development continues to go well and has gotten quite a bit of good press recently. Although Forecastfox has slipped slightly in it’s ranking on Firefox, we were able to rewrite the code from scratch this year and get a version out for Chrome (which has been very warmly received). This new code base should allow us to iterate faster and get versions out for Firefox, Fennec, and others. I started the company Web Tech Studios this year to cover the contract work I do. To celebrate the creation of the company I created the "Near Me" add-on and entered it into the Extend Mobile Firefox contest. It was chosen as one of the winners and I received a Nokia N900 as the prize.
Now with three sons and lots of work to do, 2010 looks like it’s going to be a very exhausting happy year.
Posted on
January 11th 2010
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