Category Archives: personal

Wedding Planning

Jennifer and I were married a little while ago, and as I’ve talked to people during the planning process it has become clear that we had a very different perspective and did things differently as a result. More than a few of the people I’ve talked to about this (mostly guys) have asked me to [...]

A Brief Personal Note

Yesterday, April 12th, Jennifer and I were married. Our warmest thanks to everyone who attended and our sincerest regrets to everyone whom we could not invite. Our friends and family made the day truly special.

@Media Ajax Wrap-Up

I’ve uploaded the slides for my talk from Day 2 of @Media Ajax, which was a refreshingly focused and high-quality conference. The single-track format combined with some really excellent speakers made me really regret missing any part of it. Huge congrats to Patrick and the Vivabit for putting on such a great couple of days. [...]

Immunity

I don’t write much about politics here, but the amnesty-for-telcos language which is being fought by the EFF really has my goat. The whole robo-fax-as-advocacy thing isn’t really my style so what follows is the letter I sent to Senator Feinstein today after finding that her San Francisco office’s voicemail box is full and that [...]

Comet Daily Is Live!

The new Comet Daily blog (to which I will be a contributor) is finally live, and already they are doing a better job than I ever have at explaining the value of Comet for building low-latency interactions. Greg Wilkins has an excellent post outlining the load and latency benefits of going with a Comet server [...]