http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/ The Andrews' family website en-us Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:44:09 MST chris.j.andrews@gmail.com chris.j.andrews@gmail.com Copyright (c) 2007 www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews. All rights reserved. http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-11.html#343 Click on this button to see the visitor map for our site. Powered byIP2Location.com... Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:10:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-11.html#343 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-09.html#709 I loved traveling the Metro in Seoul.Great for people watching and getting around. It was cheap, too... about $.60 per ride.... Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:58:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-09.html#709 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-09.html#699 I was in South Korea for work.I spent most of the week in Seoul with a sidetrip to Incheon, a city under construction on the western coast, for a meeting with the city.I managed to spend a 1/2 day on Thursday walking around and exploring the city.... 37.577 126.977 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:38:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-09.html#699 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-08.html#670 It was great to get the chance to see the Archaeopteryx fossil in the Berlin Natural History Museum.The fossil is as interesting in real life as it looks in photos and is an amazing demonstration of evolution in action.No, fossils aren't put in the ground by God to test man's faith... as one of my college roommates believed.Sigh.... 52.5297 13.3797 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:37:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-08.html#670 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-08.html#669 This week I'm in Berlin for work, actually staying in Potsdam.Potsdam is a very quaint little town with an old town center that Ihaven't gotten to see yet.I managed to take the train in and around Berlin today.I saw part of the Wall, the Natural History Museum, Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, and the Reichstag (state house). The Wall was very interesting.Only a little of it is left standing.Although it's only 10 feet tall in most places, the deadly part was the death zo... 52.5354 13.3903 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:23:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-08.html#669 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#667 I'm headed back to the states in a few hours.Crazy week that included: Walking around the roof of a 8 storey library building Visiting the 300-year old clock tower of the Salzburg Museum Lots of walking Kicking drunk Austrians out of the way to take panoramic photos A crazy conversation with Holgar and Albert, two "Communications"grad students It'll be nice to be home. ... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:52:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#667 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#666 I'm in Salzburg again for work.It's beautiful here this time, though if we had come two weeks earlier, we would have caught more of the fall foliage. The fortress at the top of the city is really quite cool.If Ben is ever interested in that sort of thing, we'll have to bring him here.... 47.7947 13.0476 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:16:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#666 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#656 I'm in Vancouver for work.It's a gorgeous city with lots and lots of activity all the time.Nice views of water and mountains everywhere you look! Vancouver sounds like a great town to come back to for a vacation.On the other hand, I learned today that one of it's largest exports is marijuana.Aparrently,Canadian crooks trade it at the USborder for Cocaine coming up from South America.What a world.... 49.2891 -123.122 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:40:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-08.html#656 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-08.html#574 This open source service for tracking a stolen laptop is brilliant. Adeona http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html ... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-08.html#574 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-08.html#547 Very cool site to purchase a variety of live trees. Prices weren't bad at all. When we buy a house...... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:43:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog7-08.html#547 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-08.html#529 I went to see Iron Man tonight with one of our new friends from the area. It was a good movie. Held to a single story line, amusing minor side plots... pretty true to the books.... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:45:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-08.html#529 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-08.html#523 I'm in Salzburg, Austria for work. I'll add some photos to the travel section. I must be one of the only Americans who can't recall ever seeing "The Sound of Music" but there are references to it everywhere and by nearly everyone I meet who speaks English.Just call me uncultured... The photo attached here is one that shows a store window for one of the many shops that sells handmade Austrian wares. This one seemed to be a general toy and trinket shop that was quite a bit... 47.8005 13.0406 Sun, 18 May 2008 14:03:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-08.html#523 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-07.html#431 We've been up in Breckenridge this week and I can definitely say that the cold has kept many people off of the slopes. Even Jeanette has yet to go out, but I don't blame her when it's probably -10F at the top. I've made it out a few times and today on 4 of the 6 runs, I didn't see anyone else on the majority of the run. It was definitely one of those surreal days when you only see two or three lifts in front of you when the wind blows the snow around. It's nice though.... 39.4696 -106.085 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:26:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-07.html#431 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-07.html#412 Today was one of the oddest travel days I've ever had. I started out in San Rafael, attempting to make my way back to Denver. I had booked an earlier flight because I've spent too much time away from home lately. Things started out a bit odd when I tried to check in online and was told that there was no ticket for that record locator. I looked in our travel site and everything looked OK, so I sprinted my way down to the airport because I was a little late. When I got to SFO, it turn... 37.6208 -122.373 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:43:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-07.html#412 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-07.html#392 I was in Las Vegas all week at Autodesk University. Pretty big conference at about 10000 people. Saw some very cool demos and met about 250 people... that would be my new job. I've possibly met upwards of 500 new people or more since I started.... 36.09 -115.178 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:35:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-07.html#392 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-07.html#379 I'm in Toronto for all of about 24 hours today. I got in late... 1AM and I'll be out at about 7PM today. It's been about 15 years since I've been here. Too bad there's no time to go to the ROM! This week it will be a very quick trip... Toronto, Manchester, Boston, Hartford... all for work. Too bad there's no time to stop and say hello to anyone! ... 43.7155 -79.3927 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:57:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-07.html#379 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-07.html#433 Here's a photo I forgot to put up from this summer. I visited my cousins Shalini and Guru in Chicago this Summer when I happened to be in the area for work. It was great to see them. I hadn't seen Shalini and her husband Prasad since around 2000. Guru was a skinny kid when I saw him last in India near the end of 1991. Time flies. Shalini and Prasad have two cute kids and I hope they get to meet Benjamin some day!... 42.0822 -88.0671 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:12:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-07.html#433 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-07.html#353 Spending another late night in San Rafael.... 38.0784 -122.624 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:22:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-07.html#353 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-07.html#328 We had a nice drive down to Garden of the Gods. Here's a photo of Danielle, Lance, and Jesse starting on their walk around.... Fri, 25 May 2007 23:00:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-07.html#328 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-07.html#321 This week I'm in San Rafael, CA, starting my new job at Autodesk. I'm very excited about it. I'm the new ISV Technical Program Manager for their Geospatial Business Unit. Pretty cool. This week is logistics, but I'll be back frequently until we move out here later in the summer. Fun! ... 37.994 -122.509 Tue, 15 May 2007 19:37:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog5-07.html#321 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-07.html#259 Looks like Steven Hawking is going on a zero-g flight... and they're available to the general public for $3500. How cool! Hmm... maybe I'll save up and Ben and I can do it for his 16th birthday... but he'll have to buy any future trips himself!... Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:56:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-07.html#259 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#234 I got to hold Rosie the tarantula at the Buterfly Pavilion. How fun! It was my first time with a tarantula... pretty cool. J wouldn't let me put her on Ben's head though...... Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:42:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#234 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#229 While Tim and I were drinking with the baby, Alison, Sara, and Tiffany were nice enough to throw Jeanette a baby shower at Sara and Tim's place! I popped over with Ben for a little bit but it sure looked like they were having fun... they had some great cake, too!... Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:23:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#229 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#191 Hmm... lets see if we can embed a weather map from http://www.WeatherBonk.com in YakJive... ... Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:32:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#191 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#190 I've spent a ton of time lately working on YakJive, trying to get out some functionality additions before the baby arrives. It's been going well and having Darrell and Steve give me some good feedback has helped. Jeez... Jeanette's belly is getting really hard. You can touch all sorts of baby parts if you feel around. It's pretty crazy that we're going to have a kid in a few weeks! I also got another article publshed this week. This one is going to be on the open mapping... Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:27:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#190 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#189 It's hard to believe we're into the second week in the new year already. Benjamin has about 30 days left to bake in Jeanette's belly. Milo is enjoying the evening walks to the park where we play 'chase the snowballs' because we can't play in the backyard. It's probably good for me as well. The winter weather has been crazy. We've just gone through three snow storms that each left between 8 inchesand 2 feet. It shoulds like we're due for another this week. W... Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:07:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#189 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#187 6 more inches at the house!... Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:03:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#187 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#185 Just testing to see if the movie upload functionality is working.... Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:50:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#185 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#181 As you can see from the photo, everyone is a bit tired out after the holidays. Mom was here, Darrell is still here. It's been busy. It's also hard to believe that it's 2007! Happy New Year! ... Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:51:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog1-07.html#181 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#179 Alright... that's three days of shoveling in a row. I'm getting a little tired of this. Today is beautiful however. I can't believe how much snow is in the back yard. It was up to my thigh when I tried to tromp a path for Milo. Funny dog is still afraid of the snow shovel, but that doesn't stop him from finding his toys.... Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:46:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#179 US Milos-corner http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#173 Mom came for a visit and we had a nice time. We found the Bull and Bush pub, took a day trip into the mountains, and had a very nice Christmas.... Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:59:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#173 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#170 This weekend I got a chance to get out riding. I took the three lifts up, then hiked the 10 minutes to the top of Imperial Bowl. Pretty nice up there at 12,998 ft!... Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:49:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog12-06.html#170 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#171 We had a quick dinner with Granny on the way to the airport to return to dinner after our visit to St. Pete. It was nice to get to spend some time with Granny and we only wish that we lived closer.... Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:00:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#171 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#158 Note: I wrote this at the request of my grandmother for my grandfather's funeral mass. I was fortunate to spend a large proportion of my life around my grandfather, much of it during some of the years that he probably enjoyed best. My experience with him certainly leads me to a different picture of him from that of his children, his wife, or even my sister. As a child, my early impressions of Pups formed as I spent time around him at my grandparents house in Forestdale, MA. I remember a... Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:18:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#158 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#153 This week I was in Las Vegas, participating in a Microsoft Developers conference. The content was pretty good... I was mainly interested in Iron Python, ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX for ASP.NET, and some of the Visual Studio framework and tools. I came out with my coworkers Steve and Jim. We had a decent week of attending the conference and doing a little sightseeing after hours. The best talk at the conference was one about making websites accessible to users who need to use text-only readers or speech... 36.0958 -115.176 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:32:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog11-06.html#153 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-06.html#147 OK, so I also managed to make it by the La Brea Tar Pits and the Page Museum today. One of my all time to-do list things to do. I enjoyed the walk through the museum as well as the reminiscing about undergrad. The dire wolf and saber tooth skeletons were incredible, in number as well as individually. Sad that the appearance of humans spelled the end of so many large mammals. The lions, tigers, and wolves were probably beautiful, not to mention the mastodons, bears, and other animals.... 34.0625 -118.355 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:04:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-06.html#147 US places-weve-been http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-06.html#145 We spent a nice quiet weekend in Breckenridge and saw some wet, heavy snow. There was no real excitement this weekend... some annoyances with the HOA. We did find time to take a nice hike up the road and then down the ski slopes behind the condo. Didn't find any silverware this time!... Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:06:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog10-06.html#145 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-06.html#100 A little over 11 years ago, my sister passed away. It's hard to believe it's been that long. Last weekend at a family reunion for the Jeromes, Danielle, Jeanette, Lance, Jesse, and I went to visit here grave and see her new headstone. It was peaceful up there in Hallock... virtually a ghost town. But sad. At least she led a happy life while she was able. ... Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:19:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog8-06.html#100 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-06.html#70 Found this pretty simple tutorial for drawing cartoons on websites. http://invading-holland.blogspot.com/2006/06/drawing-cartoons.html I'll have to think about some cartoons of Jezebel and Milo!... Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:50:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-06.html#70 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-06.html#58 I just spent a week in San Antonio, TX, for work. Pretty city. One of the funniest comments that I thought myself and repeatedly heard was that you wouldn't even believe that you were in Texas based on the look and feel of the city. The conference I was at was so-so. The water industry supports a lot of small and large vendors. My feet were bruised after four days in the booth. Must request more padding. The food down there was pretty good. More atmosphere than anything else. You're... 29.53 -98.47 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:24:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog6-06.html#58 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog4-06.html#9 Read a sad article in the St. Pete Times this weekend about massive bleaching in Carribean coral reefs. Aparrently last year saw record warm temperatures in the Carrib and this year is supposed to be more of the same. Sad thing is that the loss of the reefs could lead to some truly mass local extinctions. And George W doesn't believe in global warming...... Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:44:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog4-06.html#9 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-06.html#10 This site is the culmination of a couple of years of thinking in the shower... and several months of hard work. It's groupware, community software, for creating family or small organization/business newspapers. Take a look!... Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:49:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/TheAndrews/Chris-blog3-06.html#10 US Chris-blog