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Author: Davin Granroth

  • The beginning of the�

    Once upon a time, long ago, in the Winter, when I was living at my parents’ house in the snowy Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my job was to make sure the driveway was cleared of snow so people could drive out. It was a fairly long driveway, especially by city standards. This meant waking at…

  • Eva the aficionado

  • Acting! —- Brilliant.

    So, when I’m trying find a bible verse online, I’ve been going to biblegateway.com for years. Just now, for the first time, I clicked one of their “listen to this passage” audio links. Oh man. It’s bad. The readers have British accents, and I’m not convinced they’re real. To make it worse, they adapt these…

  • My bacon, egg, moz. cheese, grape jelly, mayo, tomato on toast sandwich

    One of the benefits of an in-home office is that I get to make up my own lunch ideas. This one isn’t anything too wierd, but derned if it wasn’t tasty. Sandwhich composed of: – 2 slices of toasted wheat bread, mayo on one slice, grape jelly on the other – three slices of peppered…

  • Sept. 11 memory

    It seems like many people remember clearly where they were when they first found out about the attack on the World Trade Center. I was working at MSU University Relations at the time, and was in the midst of working on the web site for the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. I walked out of my…

  • Wired article: Ads that Annoy Also Succeed

    Ads That Annoy Also Succeed by Adam L. Penenberg of Wired.com points out a great fact: Spam and Pop-up ads actually work, or advertisers wouldn’t still be using them. One of the reasons they work is that the cost of doing these kinds of ads are so low, that a very low conversion rate can…

  • Legal action on accessible web sites in USA

    Here’s the press release from the New York State Attorney General’s Office: SPITZER AGREEMENT TO MAKE WEB SITES ACCESSIBLE TO THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED. As far as I know, this is the first major legal case in the U.S. where .com web sites are made to provide accessible web sites. The sites are Ramada.com…

  • Gonna have to register

    Okay. After just getting slammed by a dozen blog spam comments on Cialis and online casinos, I turned on TypeKey authentication for this blog. To comment, you’ll need to create a typekey account. You’ll only have to do this once, and probably you won’t actually have to sign in that often. Warning: To those who…

  • IOC vs Free Speech?

    Wired.com posted an article, You’re Athletes, Not Journalists, that to me sounds like it is at odds with the whole “free speech” idea. The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from writing firsthand accounts for news and other websites.

  • Pictures from when Lila was a newborn

    I just ran across some photos we had of when Lila was born. They’re on my old web space at MSU. Chey still had dreads at that point.