Archive for June, 2006

Yes, I thought so. That is a woman with a mustache on Jobster: Just for fun, by the way, here’s my profile on Jobster. I don’t quite like the results as much as my resume, but hey – fun to try. resume, jobster, john koetsier
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I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the New Netscape is doomed. It won’t be successful, people won’t do what Netscape wants them to do, and Netscape will revert back to something more like what it used to be within 6 months. Netscape is not a Digg-ish site: people can...
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I love gadgets and technology and cool new stuff, but I don’t have HDTV. Why? This is why. But the biggest problem is now we have 17 different boxes to power on to watch TV, and they have to be powered on in a certain order and with a certain remote control. And running...
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We live on Glen Mountain, which is a part of Sumas Mountain, in Abbotsford, BC, and often get deer in our yard. This spring, a young doe had two fawns which we’ve been seeing quite often. Here is a quick video taken with my digital camera of one of the young deer just below...
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Teresa took the kids for checkups today at the doctor. Everything’s fine, and we now know that Gabrielle’s 58 pounds, Ethan is 48, and Aidan is 30. But the magical moment was provided courtesy of Aidan. Dr. Stepney, our family doctor, asked him if he always wore his bike helmet. Looking rather oddly at...
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I tried to watch Jason’s presentation at Collaboration Loop tonight. Unfortunately Collaboration Loop uses Windows Media player, and it’s driving me nuts. it keeps stopping part way the play head is not scrubbable, so I can’t restart it partway and when I try to give them some feedback, the feedback form is braindead I’ve...
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Darl McBride is the guy everyone loves to hate. Current chief executive officer of SCO, the company that’s suing IBM over its support of Linux (and will, if successful, sue just about anyone else using Linux), Darl used to work for the FranklinCovey Company. So did I. FranklinCovey is a personal and organizational effectiveness...
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I continued my Roman vacation today … I haven’t been working on my modern English “translation” of the book of Romans for quite some time, but I picked it up again today and will be working more on it in the near future (now that the Stanley Cup is finished).
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Check this out. It reminds me of Apple’s Piles concept, which never really saw the light of day. But this is much cooler, and may be a significant step forward in UI design … if some big company takes the hint. Niko Nyman disagrees with the idea that Bumptop...
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What’s up with Yahoo!’s Slurp? That’s the question I was asking myself last week as I was peering at my blog stats. More specifically, the stats for which robots had been visiting, sucking, spidering my sites. Yahoo! Slurp is visiting my sites almost constantly … in this 7-day period it requested a file (image,...
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I am not a person who likes to try new core applications just for the heck of it. I seriously value aesthetics in all my core applications. And a web browser is, to me, a core application. Maybe about as core as you can get. Which explains why I have never switched to Firefox....
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I had lunch with a colleague today. He’s young, smart, and creative … and in a job where he cannot possibly exercise all his talents. (Kind of the way I like to think of myself!) But he has a good-paying job. And a mortgage. And 3 kids. And a wife. So it’s hard. Hard...
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My new iPod just arrived – the 30 GB video version. It somehow feels so much better than my 4th generation 20 GB version. It seems much slimmer (probably only a few millimeters), the screen seems much bigger (again, it’s probably not actually very much bigger at all) and overall just much more delicious....
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My wife Teresa and I are going through a bit of a tough time right now around church: which church should we attend? This is always a tough choice: as my mother reminds me from time to time, you don’t just choose for yourselves, you choose for your children. In our case, it’s particularly...
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Good news – Google Calendar now supports Safari. I have been using Firefox only for Google Calendar the last couple months … now I can go back to Safari as my only browser. . . . . . . Although, I have been tempted to try out Flock …
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