 Present-day teen heartthrob. |
 Me in 1984. |
Joe Ganley |
I make software and sometimes other things. |
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Since Microsoft is terminating Money, I've been looking around for a replacement, and so far it's just a whole lot of fail. I tried both GnuCash and MoneyDance, and not to put too fine a point on it, but they both suck. Quicken doesn't offer a free trial, as far as I can find. They do offer a free online version, but I just can't get comfortable with giving all of my credit-card logins, much less all of my financial data itself, to an online service. (This is the same thing that has kept me from trying out Mint.) I guess I'll keep looking.
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After our house-hunting trip was unsuccessful to say the least, we are not moving to Australia. Details later.
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People may have noticed that the photos of my children are no longer public on Flickr. After the third time someone with no photos of their own on Flickr favorited a picture of my 12-year-old, I decided it was time to draw the curtains. If you're a friend of ours, email me and I'll give you access.
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In the mid-90's, long before that atrocious movie, my then-landlady told me about how she'd made a list of things she wanted to do in her life. I thought that was a great idea, and started making one myself. I've always felt like it was a little personal to share, and I'm still not sure that's not true, but it's pretty well established that sharing your goals is a positive thing, and in the interest of this month's blogging experiment, here it is.
As a sample, and to put even more pressure on myself to do some of these things, here are a few that I expect to do in the next few years: Labels: goals, life, lists, personal Comments (0) |
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I've been trying to figure out how long ago I first had a web presence. The earliest evidence I could find of me having a URL was in the signature line of a usenet post from September 01994. This fits with what I thought I remembered, that I first made a web site a few months before the first release of Netscape (which was December 01994). Hard to believe that was only 15 years ago.
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Our friend Robin gave us these wonderful paintings of our two younger daughters for Christmas. Thank you, Robin!
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Yesterday I was reading Paul Graham's site, and wondered what other Lisp hackers might be around, so I went to one of the Lispier pages and Googled 'similar links.' To my surprise, one of the first hits was my friend Lawrence. That led me to revisit my friend Brad; he was on the programming team with me, and he and Lawrence were roommates (of each other, not of me). Somewhere in here I also lost half an hour to Drew's site; I don't know him at all, but he's a friend of Lawrence's. (I particularly liked the manually-raytraced sphere.)
The good that comes of this sort of jaunt is that Lawrence, Brad, and I are making plans to get together when I'm in California next month; it's been an overly large number of years since I've seen them. Labels: personal Comments (0) |
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