Michael Barrett @ Abouthalf.com

I got to thinking aloud in the shower this morning. This is the best place to think aloud, as no one can hear you talk to yourself over the rush over the water. I was wondering if in the upcoming mid-term elections which was more likely to happen: Will the Democrats wake up and smell [...]

GoDaddy: Anyone who is: A: Interested in registering a domain name and B: Interested in women’s breasts Has already located such things on the internet a long time ago. Ford – It’s not easy being green:It’s a good thing Jim Henson is dead. ABC Desperate Housewives:Ok. That’s funny. (But Tony Hawk has become such a [...]

My niece, Kiara Frese, was born yesterday.

Is it really 5.45 am? The clock must be wrong. Nope. We have cell phone confirmation. It is in fact 5.45 am. Sometimes you get into conversations with those persons. You know. Those conversational persons who propel conversation into the wee hours of the morning. It’s great fun. Reminds me of being “deep” and “arty” [...]

Dude, that sucks.

A lot has happened since the last time I wrote anything here. I’ve moved into a new apartment, gotten a full time job, and helped the girlfriend move off to Mexico. The new apartment is huge. It has like a bedroom. And a balcony. And there’s even like a dining room. The new apartment follows [...]

The official blurb: Joss Whedon, the Oscar® – and Emmy – nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers [...]

So there’s these weird heads popping up around Portland. A little too arty to be just random grafitti. I suspect there’s an art school drop out running around with a spray can arting up the place.

Pike Place Market pics, taken on a quick weekend trip to Seattle, WA.The fish are fresh, but the snakes are stuffed. Watch out for carrot lizards.

Snapshots have reappeared on Abouthalf after some hefty tinkering.If you’re a serious minded web dork, then you have no doubt heard all the buzz about this so-called Ajax thing (the melding of client-side scripting and JavaScript to make highly responsive web-based applications like Google Maps.)I think this is part of a JavaScript renaissance.Web developers and [...]