Archive for January, 2010

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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