Archive for August, 2005

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

What’s new

Well I’m now in Week 2 of classes. I just have class on Monday and Tuesday afternoons 4 to 6:30 so it’s not too bad. Driving is going ok, just wish gas wasn’t so expensive. Parking is a pain on Tuesday afternoons so last week Stephanie drove me to class and then shops. Thanks, Hobbit!:-) [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Stephanie, Thoughts on Life and UM Columbia by Dan

---

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Gearing up for classes

Well today was spent gearing up for the start of classes Monday. I did a bit of graduate research assistant orientation and got keys to one of my two shared offices. Yeah, apparently I have two offices. After that I talked to Doug about independent study stuff for a while and then he, Stephanie and [...]

7 Comments » - Posted in UM Columbia by Dan

---

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

An addition to the family

Well we now have visual evidence. Stephanie and I are having a baby! (Currently called Peanut) The first ultrasound pic and more details are on Stephanie’s blog

6 Comments » - Posted in Lisa, Stephanie and Thoughts on Life by Dan

---

Monday, August 8th, 2005

The Acid 2 test

The Acid 2 Test is a holy grail of web standards support that designers wish browser maker would strive for. Basically if your browser can display this page as a smiley face, it has good standards support.
Internal builds of Safari, Opera, and Konqueror all pass the Acid 2 Test. But the [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Information Technology and Web Design by Dan

---

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Great quote from NASA

The space shuttle has problems, everybody on the planet knows this. So NASA is going back to a more traditional rocket with the payload on top design for future manned missions.
The New York Times has an article on the new design. The best quote from the article is from the new administrator of [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Science by Dan

---

---

---