Space Ninja

“Hi Scott, it’s your mom. Annie’s water just broke. The midwives are on their way, and I wasn’t sure if you wanted to come home?” was how I found out my wife was in labor. I didn’t realize it at the time, though. I got the phone call at my desk at work, while reading [...]

Zoe Lynn Vandehey
born 3:30pm, February 22, 2007 (three weeks early)
5 Pounds, 5 ounces
19½ Inches
(More photos can be found in the “Zoe’s First Week” set, which I will be updating now and then over the next few days.)

Recently, I installed VirtualPC on my XP box so that I could still test IE6 after installing IE7. However, I immediately ran into a problem. There is some sort of conflict between the mouse emulation being done in the VirtualPC window, and the mouse emulation being done on my PC to let me use my [...]

As a web developer who prefers to use a Macintosh, I struggled to find the least painful way to test my work on a PC. The solution turned out to be a program called Synergy, which effectively creates a dual-monitor setup where one monitor is a PC and one is a Mac.

Three years ago, Annie and I gathered all our friends and family together for the best party we could imagine. We had good food, good music, fantastic weather, and a ceremony that only lasted ten minutes. I walked down the aisle with Steve to the Imperial March, while Annie floated down to Pachelbel’s Canon. There [...]