This weekend saw the passing of the Mowrer family dog, Champagne, who struggled with a sudden worsening of lymphatic cancer. Until the last couple weeks, Champagne had always been so full of energy.

She had 8 wonderful years in our family.

Come join me for some swing dancing this Wednesday, May 6th, at the Cat's Corner at the Savanna Jazz Club in the Mission. Savanna Jazz Club is located at 2937 Mission St @ 25th There's a $5 cover before 9:30 PM, while doubling it to $10 gets you a 30 minute crash course in swing, starting at 9:00 PM.

I was at Power to the Peaceful this weekend, a free concert promoting peace and those who empower it. Michael Franti and his head of spears. Volunteer booths galore. You get the idea. Whilst perusing the booths, a woman stops me and asks me to sign her petition. "What is this petition about?" I begin.

I, for one, welcome our Google Overlords. Today Google released Google Chrome (beta). How exciting; a web browser from the people that have the best web stuff. Here's a cartoon about how great GChrome is supposed to be, and the motivation behind it. So how does it compare? Well, it looks a lot like a normal browser, except that the address bar is below the tabs. That this is an a...

I've been wanting to update the site for a while. I think the fixed-width look is much cleaner, and the text is easier to read when in skinnier columns. I've also decided to rip out WordPress entirely and use my own system. WordPress just provided too much for the simple things I wanted to do, in fact making it more difficult to integrate into a custom site without using its templating system. I was also getting loads of spam comments (several a day). There are ways a...