Wednesday night my girlfriend Tara and I got engaged. I spent the last month planning a very special evening that fortunately caught her totally by surprise! I posted some photos here of the proposal at my house. One of the highlights was the performance of mystressfyre on my front lawn. Our thanks go out to all who helped me because I could not have pulled this off without the help of several of my close friends.

We are all very excited. The wedding will be in 2007 with more details to follow.

Update: November 17th, 2007 is the date!

I just think there is an amazing amount of good educational video now available on the web. I was talking with a friend a few months back who is starting a business to sell videos online to teach simple tasks like tying a man’s tie, and other common tasks. I am not sure if you could really sell something like that with all the videos on YouTube but anyway…I can see where he was coming from. Here are some videos I found interesting.

Google Tech Talks (Google engEDU) The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less and The Graphing Calculator Story both of which are non technical but fascinating. Other good ones IMO include An Introduction to SQLite and Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

I also like Peepcode has good software engineering videos on Ruby on Rails programming. These are not free however.