The other night I am trying to get Jenna to go to bed which is not easy to do. I almost get here there when she sits up and says, “Dad I want to tell you something.” I say, “OK”. She says, “all the t-rexs are killed.” Then she says, “a meteor came and killed…
At the Mountain West Ruby Conference
We are at the Ruby Conference this weekend. The Ruby community is active, talented and friendly. I mean that. Often, because of religious zeal open source communities act very closed to individuals outside their group. The Ruby world isn’t like that. Everyone wants to help. Everyone is friendly. The talks have been good, but like…
Code Review of Ozmozr by Jamis Buck and Marcel Molina
The review is actually less painful than I would have thought. They are looking at parts of the code and giving specific feedback on code blocks. Here’s a quick summary: ‘and’ and ‘or’ are different than ‘||’ and ‘&&’. The second returns boolean values. The first returns strings. Avoid using ‘and’ and ‘or’. When dealing…
Twins
For years people have asked us a question that drives my wife crazy, “are they twins?” This is of course the question that people use as a conversation starter. Having kids that look alike is like having the perfect coffee table conversation piece only better – they travel with you. Total strangers will talk to…
Jenna-isms Again
My kids are good for the most part. They really are. However, I have no idea what goes through Jenna’s mind. Here is the latest from her: We were headed to dinner Saturday night and I found her wandering the house with one shoe. She told me, “I have a missing shoe. I know where…
xbox 360 woes
My xbox 360 died over the Christmas break. It had worked flawlessly for about 6 months. I turned it off before we went to visit my parents for a few days. When we came back I got the three flashing red lights of death. I did the reset and tried all the suggestions on the…
ozmozr is out there
We (COSL) just spent the last three months putting together a piece of software called Ozmozr. I figured that since know one knows us and since we don’t market it would be a while before anyone found us. I was wrong. We have people signing up every hour or so now. That is nothing for…
Computer Theories
I have a degree in electrical engineering so I know a lot about computers so there. Over the past five years I have been formulating my primary theory regarding the fundamental nature of computers. I post it to the world now because my Mac crashed yesterday. Here it is: There are millions of very intelligent…
Kids learn fast
So my wife bought my daughters some simple math books. They have add and subtract etc in them. Callie came upon Alyssa, she is 5, working in one of the books for fun and was happy to see she had made it through the simple problems with ease. We haven’t spent much time teaching them…
Identity Conference Day 2
Today has been fun. We had Indian for lunch. Something about set my mouth on fire. Nearly killed me. During the geek demo hour I met Kevin Mark from Technorati who is one of the key players in the Microformats world. I also went to a session sponsored by Chris Messina (factoryjoe) who focused on…