June 2003
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Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 12:20 PM
Quiet confidence is more powerful than loud boasting. ~Dan Short
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 5:09 PM
On this day in 1969 my mother came from Greece to America. On this day in 1996, John (my brother) married his wife Andrea. On this day in 1997, John (my cousin in Greece) married his wife. On this day in 1997, I married my husband Ambrogio.
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Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 2:41 PM
Gaetano went on his first field trip yesterday. It was one of those "mommy" moments for me to sign his permission slip and sign up as a <span class"definition" title="According to m-w.com: an older person who accompanies young people at a social gathering to ensure proper behavior; broadly : one delegated to ensure proper behavior. Boy do I feel old!...
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Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 6:59 PM
Somehow or another when I moved to the new DWmommy design, I left out the pictures from my trip to San Francisco . They're in the Dreamweaver gallery because we visited Macromedia while there. ;-)
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Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:58 PM
"If stupidity were a crime, your ass would be serving life." ~ The Practice
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Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 10:16 AM
Thursday morning Gaetano woke up with a mild fever (99.2). It didn't take him long to get his first cold from school! So we kept him home, took him to the doctor's and got him on anti-biotics. Friday he stayed home too, and was clingy since he didn't feel well, but to look at him you wouldn't know he was sick except the occasional sniffle. We were both hungry so we went out for Japanese together....
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 9:45 PM
I've been thinking about getting a webcam, but have no idea what to choose. I'd prefer to have one that has a filter/mask for when I'm having a bad hair day. Other than that, it should work and not break when (not if) it falls. Durable is good. I don't want to have to fuss with anything, I just want to point it at me or my son and everything should focus and work smoothly. Am I asking too much?...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 8:20 PM
Wednesday night at O Sushi Cafe is "All You Can Eat Sushi Night". I had 4 pieces of tuna, 4 pieces of yellow tail, 2 pieces of seared albacore, an 8 piece spicy tuna roll, an order of fried calamari(but I could only eat 1/2), and mochi balls for dessert. I'm stuffed... With as much as I talk about sushi, I'm contemplating adding a Sushi category. Hmm...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 8:03 PM
If you haven't noticed yet, I've added a Quotes category to the blog. This is where I'll post things that I've thought that seem quotable, or things friends say to me. (All posts appear unless you use the Blog Categories filters.) Most likely I won't give context to the quote, so it's probably not worth asking me. :-) Don't worry, I won't quote you without permission...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 8:02 PM
Lying to a lawyer is like lying to a priest, but cheaper in the long run. ~Dan Short
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 7:58 PM
What if frogs fall from the sky? ~Dan Short
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Monday, June 16, 2003 - 10:04 PM
As I understand it, most mothers are emotional when their child goes to their first day of school. I guess I'm just not like most mothers. I observed him from behind a two-way mirror for about 20 minutes with Ambrogio. Gaetano has become used to playing alone, and so he would wander away from the group to do his own thing quite a bit in those 20 minutes. I'm told he got better as the day passed....
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Monday, June 16, 2003 - 9:09 PM
"Roller coasters are fun, so long as they're not emotional." ~Angela
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Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 8:36 PM
I'm alright, just a little unwell. I've had a really painful headache today and yesterday one of my infamous stomach aches. Life's pressures are certainly getting to me, but I know I'll be alright. A few of my online friends have noticed my abscense from MSN Messenger recently. One friend, Alex, even emailed me to make sure I was alright. (That was sweet, thanks Alex.) I told him that if he...
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Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 1:09 PM
I've added a new Artwork gallery to the site. Not much there yet, but it should grow over time.
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Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 11:36 AM
"The past of one person is a poor predictor of the future of another."~Dan Short
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Monday, June 9, 2003 - 7:31 PM
When in Vegas, one should do a lot of gambolling . On my recent visit, I didn't do any gambling, and I don't regret it either.
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Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 11:16 PM
Alright, let's hear it; how do you like my stripes? Would you like me to have a style changer? Do you want to submit your own theme? Tell me what you think by adding a comment. I'm listening...
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Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 8:58 PM
Thanks to Bill Horvath for 5 pictures and a bunch of new captions for the TODCON MX Vegas gallery. If you've already seen the gallery it is worth checking out again just to read his little quips. We're still waiting on pics from Jim, Steve, and Adam. I'll keep you posted!
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Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 4:25 PM
This year I had a bit of an extended birthday, with gifts coming over the course of about 12 days. It started with Never Ending Story on DVD, and the Garbage CD from Dan on the 26th of May. I went to Disney California adventure with the boys and our friend Rene, who signed us in for free. I had birthday dinner at the Cheesecake Factory on Wednesday night. Then Thursday, The Rum Experience (a...
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Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 11:06 AM
I'm lovin' being on wireless. Loverboy just started on cable. I never used to be able to watch TV and work at the same time. It almost reminds me of when I was in high school, and I'd do my homework while watching TV. Anyway, if you've never seen this movie, you should. Mmmmm, pizza...
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Saturday, June 7, 2003 - 12:33 AM
Well, I got most of the images uploaded today. I still need to add captions to many of them though. Please feel free to recomend captions to me. If I like 'em, I'll add 'em. I have rougly 35 more images to crop/resize/retouch/upload tomorrow from my camera. Then on Monday or Tuesday I should have more from other people to upload too. Sure is time consuming, but better to do it now then to slack...
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Friday, June 6, 2003 - 10:00 PM
Susan, a.k.a. SES on the newsgroups, has posted her TODCON pics at Ofoto.com .
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Friday, June 6, 2003 - 9:06 PM
Happy birthday to Tom Muck ! It's actually on the 7th, but it is already his birthday in his time zone...
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Friday, June 6, 2003 - 2:56 PM
Well, I've uploaded pictures from my second day in Vegas for TODCON. Unfortunately I'm having trouble writing to the XML file on the server so captions are still forthcoming. Please bear with the icky file names for now, and check the blog for news of when the captions are done. You'll want to go back and read them ;-) Thanks to Eric Meyer , <a...
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Friday, June 6, 2003 - 12:02 PM
In case you're looking for the TODCON MX Vegas image gallery, it is temporarily offline while I rename images. It should be back up in about an hour. Sorry for the inconvenience. The good news is I'll have more pictures up from Day 2 at that time. Still, I have many more photos to crop, upload, that will need captions too. Thanks for your patience...
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Thursday, June 5, 2003 - 5:04 PM
I just noticed that I never approved one of my posts to show. Since I've been offline, I didn't get to notice. Oh well, it happens...
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Thursday, June 5, 2003 - 5:02 PM
I'm back home from TODCON and have lots to catch up on before I can post more pictures. I will get to them soon as I can though, and plan to blog about a few things that happened there too. It's nice to be able to breathe smoke-free air again...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003 - 4:03 PM
Ray left the network up just so I could get Day One's pictures up. Some of them need to be re-cropped because of bad batch processing, and the captions could use some help. Feel free to make suggestions. :-) There will be tons of shots from Day 2 soon as I can get those uploaded. Eric Meyer, Jim Babbage, Adam, and Steve Fleischer all have images they've either contributed or will send to me. We...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003 - 3:19 PM
They're about to shut down the network! Nooooooooooo. I guess I'll be posting more tomorrow when I get home. Damn... Hopefully I can get a connection around somewhere.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003 - 3:12 PM
My Find and Replace session was attended by only 5 people! I expected this though, since I was up against Eric Meyer. Really, I was hoping nobody would show, so I could attend his session. No such luck though. Eric's session was standing room only; packed. My session went pretty well though, especially since the group watching were experienced enough to follow along without excruciating...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003 - 3:11 PM
Even though TODCON is officially over, we're still going strong and having a blast. There's so much to say, and so many photos to crop, upload and captionize (is that a word?). So please be patient, and I'll do my best.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003 - 12:02 PM
Murray's talking about creating menus using template parameters and template expressions to determine the down state of a button. He definitely knows his stuff, and how to expose the power behind these features. Not to mention it is just fun hearing him use the word "spawn"...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003 - 11:51 AM
I'm pumped! My session went smoothly without any glitches. Not only that but I had a perfect audience. Everyone was familiar with CSS enough that I didn't need to really explain the code, but just demonstrate it's output. None of the audience use Win98 or Macintosh (with the exception of Eric Meyer who uses OS9 and he wasn't worried about DW's multi-user configuration). Russ Helfland, Macromedia...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003 - 1:19 AM
I didn't do much more blogging because I spent a good hour or so going from room to room in the hotel to find one where the wireless connection works. Finally Jay suggests we try an even numbered room which is closer to the base station. Sure enough, that did it! By the time I got rooms switched and went up to the conference level it was about 5:30. Hung out with everyone up there awhile then we...
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 1:56 PM
Since I teased Kevin earlier about using CFStudio to do his session, he's decided to do this one using Dreamweaver MX. :-) He's doing just fine, but only because he's handcoding everything! ;-) I'm going to have to talk to him a bit and show him the light...
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 11:45 AM
Arman Danesh is giving us the rundown on relational databases. Consistency, Control, and Manageability are the three reasons he's given for creating relations. We'll be getting the fundamentals, and it looks like we'll begin putting some of that to use.
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 11:20 AM
I've been trying to add the captions to the TODCON MX Vegas shots, but I'm getting file permission errors for creation and saving of the XML files that store the data. The error I get is to contact my host. Hopefully my host will be able to help me while he's on vacation... Otherwise we may be captionless! Oh no... Please be patient and if you see anything funky happening, it'll get fixed, don't...
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 11:16 AM
Ed Apostol is speaking about CFML basics with a handout provided and a downloadable PDF. I'm not sharing the link either, so neener neener to you for not being here. ;-)
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 9:48 AM
I've decided that whenever I'm not speaking at one of my sessions, I'll most likely be at ColdFusion bootcamp. Kevin Schmidt is doing the first session as I type this message. He's going to start us from the very beginning, installing ColdFusion. He'll show us around CF Administrator too. I'm getting the feeling that we're all being assimilated without our knowledge. ;-)
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 8:49 AM
Tables are evil :-) Nah, not really... Not when they're used for tabular data at least. However if your clients aren't ready for standards, then there's no point in doing it economically speaking. I've been to a lot of keynotes, well about 5 or 6 at least... and Eric is impressive. We're all awake, nobody dosing off. He's not preaching table-less design at all like one might expect. Instead, he's...
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Monday, June 2, 2003 - 8:35 AM
We're here at "Summer Camp For Geeks" and about to have Eric A Meyer present the keynote. Last night the speakers and Community MX authors joined for a special dinner of Filet Minon and Chicken with creme (not-so) brule (but still yummy) for dessert. Open bar...yummmmm. Unlike past conferences, I've taken pictures from Day 1. I even have them all uploaded already but I need to do...
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Sunday, June 1, 2003 - 10:47 AM
I'm about to leave for TODCON MX Vegas. Everything is packed, just have to run to the store real quick then it is off to John Wayne airport. I should be getting to the hotel about 4pm. I've heard that there will be wireless access there, so if it works for me, I'll try to blog "live" from TODCON.
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Sunday, June 1, 2003 - 12:06 AM
Earlier today I added a new Favicon . I created one for Dan's Shorts too, but he's yet to add the necessary code to make his show up without the user jumping through hoops, so you may not see his yet. I like to call 'em fav-eye-cons because they're close-ups of our pixel people's eyes. :-) I'm just cheesy like that y'know. I used Icon Forge to create them by importing GIF images. I have 4 uses...
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