On Sunday the girls and I made an apple pie.  My wife handed us a bowl full of apples and told us to make something delicious.  "Dad, we're going to have to make a pie, and do it from scratch."  I let the girls do almost every step…

In case you missed it on Friday, here's a little Monday morning awesome for you.  A week or so ago, Jonas Flint threw down a little web UI challenge, daring the open web to build a button as cool and sexy as his Flash-based button: Can this be replicated in…

What does the letter from a friend do?  First, it arrives.  It arrives with the markings of its travels.  It comes from far away; it is sent, carried, delivered.  Second, it comes from the past.  The letter from a friend is always what was written.  It is memory and not…

Lukas and I were talking about a great video today, The Money Tree, in which a tree is carefully adorned with 100 one-dollar bills, each one containing a short note exemplifying the obvious serendipity of coming upon such a sight.  It's a wonderful video, and the music is great too.…

Nephew: "Where are you going tonight?" Me: "To see a movie.  Have you ever gone to see a movie at a theater?" Nephew: "Yes.  I've seen Curious George, and I didn't like it at all." Me: "Did you not like the movie, or…

The personal decision is always, and fundamentally, perceived to be arbitrary.  The decision I make, the one that comes out of personal reflection, out of thinking, out of me, the decision that does not come as a consequence of orientation in the system, that follows from the relationships that shape…

I’ve been working with an amazing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today those experiments are over. In December a few of us working on processing.js had an idea--what if we…

I read an account of an event I attend recently that gave me pause.  In it, the author argued that he had observed a gathering where technology formed the only basis for the interactions in the sessions, and that those in attendance were all of a kind, without diversity, and,…

Our weekend was punctuated with experiences related to fruit.  It began with the most enjoyable visit to our local farmer's market I've had, since we were all four able to ride the 10Km on bicycle.  Tricycles, training wheels, and now rails to trails--the girls are at an amazing stage. When…

As I wrote previously, I've switched to DXR work for the summer, and have been making some good progress over the past month.  I wanted to show you some of the things I've done, and where I'm going in the coming weeks. Much of my work thus far has been…