Tip a Cop night out

We ate over at Claim Jumper tonight and we found that the Redmond Police Department were doing a fund raising event at the restaurant called “Tip a Cop” in which they trade in their ticket books in exchange for aprons and work by assisting the wait staff in an effort to raise money and awareness for the Special Olympics. Claim Jumper was donating all proceeds for the evening to the cause. There was also an envelope on the table in which... Read More

Resurecting the Wheels

Shifing Gears 2004 Giant TCR Composite 2 Before moving to Seattle in Jan. 1998, I was really into mountain biking in the desert of Arizona. After moving to the Seattle area, I mountain biked a few times but pretty much gave it up short of riding to work occasionally. I sold my mountain bike around a year later and haven’t really ridden since. By about 2003 I started getting the itch to start riding again and by 2004 I was shopping for bikes.... Read More

Flash Components Mystery

Looking for Inpiration Many of you that know me on a day-to-day basis have seen or heard me talking about Macromedia Flash the last several months. I’ve been writing code since I was 12 which is about 25 years now –shuddering at the thought–. I have done just about everything: C, C++, BASIC/VB, .NET stuff, Delphi, script, bla bla bla. What I love using most is combining C++ with Javascript. I’ll talk about why someday but stick... Read More