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Winter Jacket
December 02, 2004

It’s not as hard to believe it’s December as it is that the holiday season is upon us again. There are only 23 shopping days before Christmas, and I have zero gifts in mind, much less acquired.

Pat recently sent out email to everyone telling them to use Wish List Live. While I appreciate the support, I wish I would have had time to do all of the upgrades I wanted before everyone was force to use it. Oh well, I’m working on it as fast as I can. The new changs look great, primarily because the IE-only table design of Wish List Live version 1.0 now looks better as a CSS-enabled Firefox and IE-friendly version 2.0.

Dave and Evanne's Christmas Tree Extravaganza!
December 01, 2004

The Christmas season brings out the best and worst of everyone, oftentimes making for wonderful stories in the years that follow. The following story is an old one, and has been retold so many times over the years since it happened that I’m sure everyone knows it, but I hadn’t bothered to write it down for posterity. May the participants in this farce remain merry after my public retelling of their story - it ain’t pretty.

DVD Advertising
December 01, 2004

I’m becoming more annoyed with DVD production companies these days.

Nearly every Disney DVD has about a half hour of previews before the feature starts. Many of the discs don’t let you push the menu button to skip directly to the menu. It’s not possible to skip over the FBI warning or the INTERPOL warning at the beginning of many of these DVDs.

You can buy a blank writeable DVD at Staples for less than a dollar now, and still these movie DVDs cost $25 and up at the botiques. They jack up the price of the box citing the 43+ hours of extra features. Have you really ever bought a disc because of the extra features?

Asymptomatic's Five Year Anniversary - Best of Asymptomatic
November 30, 2004

Last year, I wrote a pretty good post about what Asymptomatic is about and how I was glad it had been around for four years. Things haven’t changed too much in regard to how I feel about the site, but there have been some interesting changes in the site and in my life over the past year. Although, you’re not going to get as coherent a summary this time around as you did last time.

One significant site change is that I’m no longer using my PageCat software for content management any more, having switched to WordPress for that duty. My rationale was that it’s too much effort to write the software and the blog entries. Of course, then I went and started writing plugins and submitting patches to the WordPress core, but that’s neither here nor there.

Over the past year, I turned 30, Abby turned three, and Riley, aka KidTwo, was born. I’ve been a lot more prolific in chronicling life events over the past year. I’ve added even more pictures. Hopefully, everyone has enjoyed it, and if you haven’t - well, tough noogies.

I feel I should mention, since it has been brought up elsewhere, that although Asymptomatic is only five, I’ve actually been using the web for quite a bit longer. I used what would become the web back in college in 1991, and started The Midnight Circus site in 1995. I thought you should know this, just in case you stumbled by and thought, “Gee, only five years?” But I’m going to guess that most visitors aren’t going to be thinking that.

Anyway, you know those crazy TV show episodes where one character gets into some trouble, and has to go through explaining all of what he’s been through over the past year? And they do it with clips of the previous shows? Man I hate those…

Presenting the Best of Asymptomatic

That's right, it's a clip episode... If you're not sure whether you want to read any of them, I suggest trying with one of the "Good Stuff" posts, which were hand-selected for their umptiquatidness.