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Heading home, down the coast

After a long, emotional weekend, we're half way home.

Our family pets. They have personality.

I could caption these photos, but I think they are funny all by themselves.

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Sunset last night

Taken with my iPhone, so the little slice of moon doesn't show very
well, but still a very nice moment.

Ventura Harbor from our hotel room

We spent a couple days relaxing at Ventura harbor and had a very nice view.

No more Space Shuttle, but did you know...

We (the U.S.) already have a working space plane? And it's been up a couple of times already? It surprised me, for sure. The only thing that made me start to say "yeah, but..." is that it's unmanned. I'm assuming that this thing can be scaled up, so maybe it could haul people back and forth. Having been in the Army, I would be surprised if they couldn't already get 200 guys in there (kidding, but they really did haul us around in tight quarters) http://www.space.com/news/secret-x-37-b-space-plane-spotted-by-amateur-astronomers-100522.html
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Good progress today adding more "configurator" like options to a shoppingcart.

I've been adding another layer of complexity to an otherwise completed
shoppingcart app today. It used to build a menu of items, now it's
building a menu of items and configurable options per item. This is
something more tricky than it seems at first.

In this case, I've built Product Groups for all items. Each product
group has one or more End Products associated with it (e.g. Hamburger,
Fries and a Soda) Each product can have a Bill of Materials that a
customer can choose from (e.g. Cheese, Onions, Tomatoes) It quickly
gets complicated to implement.

I'll definitely be relieved when this one is done.

OK. Google Chrome Portable seems very much faster than standard Chrome. Eh?

Checking out Google Chrome Portable

I may finally be ready for chrome as my main browser. Chrome dev
tools have to replace firebug, though.

Finishing up an online "Job Application" web app

Putting some final touches on a web-application tonight. Tomorrow
people should be using it to fill out job applications.

Easy Bake?

I just finished helping my girls make a cake with their easy bake
oven. I succeeded in teaching them that the "easy" in "easy bake"
doesn't appear to apply to their dad. At least when we were done they
got to eat a little cake, and they enjoyed it. :)

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