[Daniel] Back On The Air

After almost a full month without internet access, we're finally back up and running. Moriah & I are both trying to catch up the best we can but please be patient with us.

[Daniel] New Job & Moving

In addition to running Django Dash, the last month and a half have been consumed with job hunting. I received an offer in early May for a company known as Mediaphormedia. They build a newspaper CMS called Ellington. I'm extremely excited, as I'll primarily be working in Python/Django and (hopefully) building some really cool stuff.

This, however, does mean a move, as M4M is located in Lawrence, KS. Lawrence is actually a pretty cool place, a college town and vegan friendly. Moriah visited with me a second time and gave it her approval. So come the end of this month, we'll be picking the family up and moving to Lawrence.

We're excited for the kids as well. Lawrence has a couple benefits over Austin, in that it has the four seasons (as opposed to summer year-round), it's smaller (80K vs. 1M+ people) and there's a great community there. Austin's been a good place to get started but there's been a lot of things left to be desired. Plus family will be a lot closer, potentially on both Moriah & my sides.

Everything has been pretty much falling into place, which I take a good sign. It's sad to say goodbye to friends here but we have to do what's right for our family. Here's to adventure!

[Daniel] Moving Back To HTML 4.01...

Via this and this, I'm moving away from XHTML 1 Strict to HTML 4.01 Strict. I've read several of the arguments against XHTML before (including Hixie's famous piece) but always felt that writing XHTML was easier for me to parse, validate and ensure a comparable cross-browser experience. That changed today, especially via the WebKit piece.

I've prided myself on XHTML compliance before, except that it was never really compliance. Always served with the wrong MIME type (so IE would display it), the browsers would always just convert it to tag soup anyhow, and any content I didn't control (YouTube videos, comments, etc.) never conformed anyhow. I always just explained it away as "doing the best thing for the web" by trying to do things "better".

I haven't changed the source of Snow-Wolf or any of the other sites I maintain yet but that will come soon. I'm actually lightly upset about this. I feel kinda stupid for sticking to it for so long, for arguing for it, only to lapse away. Yay me.

[Daniel] The Django Dash Begins!

The Django Dash has begun! It's been a lot of work to get everything organized and going, so I'm really excited. The site should make it possible to check out what's going on, so hopefully this will be interesting.

[Moriah] Parenting Is... #28

...laughing at how adorable it is when your older toddler starts "washing" his younger brother's hair in the bath tub.

[Daniel] Congratulations!

A big congratulations to my younger brother and bass monster, Patrick! He's graduating tomorrow from college with his bachelor's degree. Congrats and we're proud of you!

[Daniel] 26 Years Down, ??? To Go

Turning 26, with the exception of wonderful messages and gifts from family, has sucked so far. Plenty of things have gone not so well today, from Mini Me being randomly upset throughout the day, to dealing with Austin traffic, to general crappiness. Rather than working yet another night, I'm plunking down for a movie and cuddle time with Moriah. Hopefully this coming week will go well.

[Daniel] Too Warm Laptop

Dear Steve Jobs,

I love your laptops. That said, it's not a laptop if it's too damn warm to keep on my lap for more than 20 minutes. I finish each and every night with two giant sweat marks on the thighs of my shorts and a giant red mark on my left leg from 2 hours of use. From typing and surfing. In a text editor (called TextMate). I fear how much hotter a MacBook Pro would be over my MacBook. Let's look into cooling solutions. Kthxbye!

Love, Daniel

[Daniel] Parenting Is... #27

...the horrendous anxiety of waiting while your spouse takes one of your children to the emergency room.

[Daniel] Yay For Meme's!

107   git

 83   cd

 42   rake

 33   dig

 26   ls

 25   rm

 20   python

 17   ssh

 15   sqlite3

 14   clear

Pretty standard, really. I'm surprised that "clear" wasn't closer to the top. Via The B-List which originated from Bill de hOra.