DISQUS

I totally agree with this. For me it's the morning walk (with camera) that gets me going. One of the administrators at my son's school mentioned that she often sees me out walking in the morning, and asked, "do you do that every day?" Me: "Oh yeah. For my sanity as much as for the exercise." From the looks of your Flickr photostream, I suspect you've seen me out walking, too -- I'm often on the Schuylkill River Trail. :-) Anyway, it makes all the difference to start the day with something just for me.

Glad to hear this is worth reading -- it's on my list of Books to Read. (I've got American Creation going right now, finally finished the last chapter or so of Dreaming in Code this week after letting it sit dormant for a couple months, and plan to pick up The Mythical Man-Month tomorrow!) I think In Defense of Food might be after that... if I don't switch to fiction after Man-Month.

Yay, congratulations John! What a great thing for Mozilla and for you.

I love the tubby tummy on that lion suit. :-)

This is great news! Or, it was... until I followed the NYT link and spent 2 hours reading. D'oh! Must work!

Oh. My. GOD. She DIDN'T. (But then, I just saw video evidence that she did. Wow.)

Good lord, I was so nervous that the guy in the middle was going to poke his eye out on Gene Simmons' spikes. Otherwise, brilliant. :)

Gah, I wish I'd seen this over the weekend, when I was agonizing over data storage. So neat!

Astute analysis -- and, I suspect, spot on.

"We do have to make choices, though. There’s only so much time, there’s only so much attention. It’s tough for a small band of folks to change the world, and sometimes you do things in an order you may not like the best." So funny -- it's something we tell our users (and especially our beta testers) over and over again, and I work for one of the Big Moneythrowers mentioned above. :) The Company may be huge, but the development teams are relatively small -- and the releases must be well-defined, manageable, and (above all, when you work for a for-profit organization) shippable. Gah, I could write pages and pages on this subject, but I don't want to hijack your comments. Maybe I'll post about it in my blog, or the new team one, one of these days...

Did you notice that Philly was #5 on that list? (San Francisco was #2, which is very suspicious considering that "cost of living" was one of the criteria used to judge whether a city was livable.)

Wow, that is *really* cool.

That's awesome -- I love rice pudding! By any chance is it a Japanese outfit, like all those cream puff stores that have popped up (Beard Papa was the one I tried)?

That was hilarious. Sorry about the dilemma, tho... and I'm with you about the woody interiors. Yuck!

Happy birthday, Sam!! Yay for one year!

Oh... my... god.

fwiw, you might want to put a warning before that link. I clicked it without thinking, and then had a total freakout when I realized I was looking at the text of an actual patent -- on my work machine. we're not supposed to look at patents or do patent research of any kind. that's done by the patent attorneys where I work. (yes, it was dumb of me to look, but I was excited for you and forgot about the policy until I read the first couple words of the abstract.) =:o

wow, he's got TEETH! weird how time flies -- he's looks like he's catching up to Austen rather than staying a fixed distance behind. ;)

I can't get over how cute Sam is! Such a great mix of the two of you.

I don't think Google's dentist lives there all the time, but they do have one (an on-site dentist, I mean). I was thinking about applying for a job there, and I noticed it among the benefits for Mountain View employees.

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=benefits.html

I'm with you on the dramas, Arrested Development, and Scrubs. The problem is that I can't seem to stick with comedies -- even the really good ones -- the way I do with dramas. We laughed until we drooled through the first few episodes of Arrested Development, but then we kind of forgot about it. Scrubs I always enjoy when I see it... but I have no idea when it's on. The only comedy we're watching regularly now is Entourage; perhaps it's so appealing to us because it's drama as well as comedy? It might also just be that we have a Tivo Season Pass for it, and not for the others. Would we watch Arrested Development regularly if we added it to Tivo? It's possible. Possible.

oh, congratulations, congratulations!!! I am crying right now; I think I was just excited until I read the Simon and Garfunkel lyrics, and now I'm a basket case. :P my best to the three of you. I know you and Kathy will make great parents.