I’ve been a big fan of the Better Gmail extension since it first debuted, and the latest iteration is amazing. In addition to the slick “Redesigned” skin that you see below, it incorporates a host of features that help make the Gmail experience even better. Since we’re also using Google Apps at the office, I [...]

For the first time since 2005, I won’t be watching the parade in downtown Silver City, and I won’t be waiting to hear sirens so I can run out in search of a photograph for the newspaper, and I won’t be going to the ice-cream social at the Silver City museum. I’ll miss all the [...]

So, Thursday day I blogged about Brian Reich’s thoughts on using technology to connect with your audience – with a foundation of clear, defined goals and a strategic vision of what you want to accomplish. Today I’m expanding a bit on those thoughts, with an emphasis on the user as content creator.
Off the Bus director [...]

From Kung Fu Monkey, on voting for Not-McCain:
If a three-legged dog were to somehow be nominated for the Democratic candidacy and chose as his running mate a gopher with a penchant for monocles and Victoriana, I would wear my “Tripod/Lord Whiskerkins ‘08″ button with pride and pull the lever with cheerful alacrity.
The rest of the [...]

This is the third in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

Sorry for the delay, but here are the photos from our third day at Assateague. The wind was pretty crazy on Monday, so I didn’t really [...]

This is the second in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 1 here.
I didn’t really plan on waking up this early: checking my watch, it was only 5:40, an ungodly hour that I try to avoid at all costs. I had thought [...]

This is the first in a three-part series on my Memorial Day 2008 camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. You can find Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
As I alluded in a previous post, I spent the weekend camping at Assateague Island National Seashore. My sister organized the trip, her fifth-annual Memorial Day [...]

So, according to my Wordpress dashboard, this is post 1,000 at Live from Silver City. Therefore, via Kevin Drum, here’s some cats to mark the milestone. It’s an old one (I haven’t had my camera during recent trips to Baltimore) but it’s a favorite, so I hope you enjoy it.
I’ve definitely come to the conclusion [...]

So, I turned 29 on Tuesday - my last 20-something birthday, as my mom said. I don’t have much to reflect on the milestone, if it is one. I’ve become more cognizant, perhaps, of the fact that I am an incredibly lucky guy: I have a fantastic job doing work that I feel is worthwhile, [...]

Nixon had taken just about every possible position short of withdrawal—we should escalate, we should negotiate, we should bomb more, we should pause the bombing, we should pour in troops, pouring in troops would be a scandal. Liberals who paid attention were enraged. They congratulated themselves for spotting the hustle. It hardly bothered Nixon; their [...]

Some photos taken since the last photodump. I’m actually without camera this week, because I lent it to Meredith for some work-related stuff. It’s been an interesting few days: I’ve been reading more (since I’m not spending evenings working in Photoshop) and trying to bone up on my photoblog reading (I’ve been pretty inundated with [...]

My mother has had what we in the scientific community would classify as “poor vision” for a while now. It was especially hard for her to see well at night, and she couldn’t read the cable guide (even on a 27″ TV). When walking somewhere after sundown she needed somebody to help with things like [...]