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Since the summer, I've been working on and off on a mobile site for Cozi. Chris, one of our interns, did a lot of the initial work. Getting it to a deployable state has been my primary focus over the last few weeks. I'm happy to say that as of today m...
My formerly trusty Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 camera went berserk one night in September. The zoom lens wedged open and nothing I did would persuade it to retract into the case or take more photos. The zoom had grown a little tempermental in the preceding...
Cozi is hiring . We have positions for Developers and Web Developers. We're a small Web 2.0 startup, based in the Smith Tower in downtown Seattle. Our Cozi Central product is groupware for families: it helps parents manage their own and their kids' schedules...
I experimented with Google's new service, Google Transit . It suggested this route for traveling from my home to my work: Begin by walking 1 Start at 4XXX 13th Ave S 2 Go to Airport Way S & S Industrial Way (takes about 7 mins) Take the King County...
I sometimes joke that I must be adopted because my parents have no aptitude for computers. I could make a similar joke about writing. Many of my immediate family, despite decent educations, seem to be incapable of writing a simple English sentence, much...
The latest issue of BusinessWeek covers Atlas On Demand , the product that I've worked on for the last six months, in a piece called TV Eyeballs Close-Up Ever since the advent of commercial television, advertisers have wondered exactly what they get for...
A friend sent me a Word document with a parody of the Department of Homeland Security's Ready.Gov website. I googled and found an HTML copy of the parody here . If you are sprayed with an unknown substance, stand and think about a cool design for a new...
I cannot look at a 16-digit credit card number and tell whether I've mistyped it or not. And neither can anyone else. I can, however, easily examine four separate four-digit numbers and spot typos. 1341329913245890 or 1341 3299 1324 5890? The choice is...
See what Thunderbird 1.5 RC 1 's spelling checker flags as misspelled words. Seems to be a known bug .
For the last three years, I've been involved with The Wild Geese Players of Seattle , an amateur group that does readings of Irish literature, particularly the works of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. Our big event every year is Bloomsday , June 16th, commemorating...
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