Today, I flew from San Francisco to Dallas to Toronto for the Mozilla Developer Days. Halfway through my flight, I glanced out of the window and found myself face to face with Ike. The monster of wind and water that ravaged my hometown concealed itself behind ragged gray clouds and …
Just saw this video on CNN.com. Looks like it was shot by a national guardsman in a helicopter. This is footage of what’s left in Crystal Beach. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/14/hurricane.ike/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
The Bridge City State Bank is an iconic building for those of us that grew up there. It sits on the corner of Ferry and Roundbunch, and this gives you a really clear idea of just how much water we’re talking about when we say that BC flooded. Here’s another …
KFDM Channel 6 in Beaumont is going to do a comprehensive update this evening (9/13) at 9PM CDT. I’ll take some notes and post them here, but if you have the ability read this you should probably be watching the news 🙂 You can watch it at http://www.kfdm.com/ . I …
This morning, everyone that chose to remain in Bridge City and Orange Texas woke up to rising water levels from Ike’s storm surge. I’ve been collecting pictures that people are sending to my cell phone, so I thought I’d repost them here, along with what I’ve learned through conversations and …
Hurricane Ike is gunning toward Galveston, TX, following a very familiar path. Three years ago, barely three weeks after Katrina, hurricane Rita swept through east Texas and western Louisiana, coming ashore in Cameron parish. The attempted evacuation from Rita was an unmitigated disaster. Many of the folks down in Texas …
We are organizing the Toronto Dev Days next week, Monday September 15 and Tuesday September 16 at Seneca College. We are looking forward to the event, and the speakers are putting their finishing touches on their presentations. I’ve been working on organizing the Testing Talks that will be on Tuesday, …
Save the date for September 15 and 16, and plan to get yourself to Seneca College in Toronto. We are bringing together the best and the brightest minds on the Mozilla platform to talk about everything from making an extension to testing low-level API’s for your next XUL application. We …
I’m dusting off this blog now. Over the last two weeks of traveling, I attended OSCON, and spoke several times at FossCoach, an “unconference” inside the OSCON conference. I talked a bit about building online communities, and about the pluses and minuses of getting started in QA (Quality Assurance) in …
This is a story of an adventure a little too outlandish to tell over and over again. So, I thought it might best serve to be written down. Like all good journey stories, this one has a map. I’m writing this for my own insight, but I thought I’d share …