The anti-immigrant sentiment of the mid 90s, as the Republicans were in ascension, motivated our family to stop procrastinating and become U.S. citizens. History is repeating itself again. Number of Mexicans gaining citizenship soars in 2007 – Los Angeles Times The number of Mexican-born immigrants who became U.S. citizens swelled by nearly 50% last year […]
One of the first things I’ve noticed as a new father is how sensitive I am again to time passing. After graduating college, my has not been measured in discrete chunks of time like semesters, nor have there been regular events like summer/fall/spring breaks to look forward to as a break in my schedule. Time
I’m meaining to blog about my recent upgrade to Verizon FIOS + Tivo HD at home. The overall conclusion – much better picture quality, and now I don’t have to watch HD content live. But the following post has a great summary of how a TiVoO DVR is more functional than the vanilla DVR everyone
This is something we’re trying to help everyone at work realize. I think we’ve known this all along, clients don’t ever fully understand wireframes. Plus, its more fun, and I think productive, to start building something that works early, gets your head out of the clouds and grounded in reality. A List Apart: Articles: Sketching
If you’re installing phpundercontrol / cruisecontrol and getting compile errors on the web front end, which render the app fairly useless, make sure you are using Sun’s JVM. To do this on Ubuntu, follow the directions at Ubuntu Linux Install Sun Java Development Kit ( JDK ) and Java Runtime Environment ( JRE ) Q.
Mice got into food at a PETCO distibution center – might be worth some prevention if you think you might be affected. FDA seizes pet food at PETCO distribution center: Consumer Reports on Safety The distribution center in Joliet, Ill., provides pet food products and supplies to PETCO retail stores in 16 states: Alabama, Illinois,
I swtiched to Gmail at the end of last year, and am loving it. We did the same at work and we have a much better mail system for much cheaper. The filtering and labeling system is both powerful and easy to use, go learn some Tricks to improve your Gmail experience at Coen Jacobs
The feature I’ve been looking forward to the most, merge tracking, made it into the latest Subversion release. I’m not sure why, but branching/merging has been a conceptually scary thing for me for a long time. I’d always be afraid that somehow I’d mess up the merge and lose updates or somehow mangle my code
Note to self – renew US Passport and carry it everywhere I go. Also, stay out of Maricopa County. Lawman’s raids on immigrants spark fury in Phoenix | U.S. | Reuters Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff’s deputies into Hispanic communities where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a
I’m not sure what these people are doing to their dog, but it drove him to figure out how to leap a fence using a trampoline. Maybe he doesn’t want to be reunited with them? Harvey the trampolining dog found – Telegraph Miss Kidson said: “The fence isn’t all that high, but he couldn’t get