Moved

I've moved, a while ago actually. Jokerr.com

Firefox Developer Interview

I read this interview the other day on Tom's Hardware. It was an interesting read and had a couple of quotes that I really liked. One in particular when asked about being more "IE compatible",

"We also have a special rendering mode called "Quirks" that we use to support some IE-only programming features. Because we prefer to stick to the standards, however, this is a last resort."

Mongol Tired...

Ok, it's 2:30 AM EST and I'm just now leaving work. That's not bad you say? I was up at 4:00 AM CST this morning, to catch a 6:00 AM flight! So now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to crash....

My Brother Matt

Last time I spoke of Matt he was in a serious accident and nearly died however a lot has happened since then. First a review. On Friday April 22, 2005 around 3:00AM Matt was driving his truck home and somehow managed to plow into the back of a semi. Alcohol was not a factor however we do know that Matt was speeding and the semi was parked in the on the road. Both were at fault. Moving on, when he hit Matt managed to take a 2004 Chevy Silverado and turn it into a El Camino. He suffered sever brain trauma by fracturing a good section of his skull and impressing it 1.5 cm. Along with that he shattered the bone under his left eye and had a large laceration on his left leg. Needless to say the first 72 hour were critical to ensure that there were no more brain hemorrhages and that he would pull through. Matt pulled through with flying colors, moving around a lot in bed and just being Matt. Apparently its a good thing to be a stubborn ass! Matt spend the next 2 months in the hospital, a good month in ICU, where he continued to get a little better everyday. After the hospital he was moved to a nursing home/rehab center and stayed there for about a month. During his time there he again continued to recover exceedingly well. Around 2.75 months after the accident he began to speak and even started walking. He still had the absent minded stare in his eyes but that too went away at a miraculous rate. Finally after 3.5 months Matt is home. People say that there is no God and miracles don't exist. Well my brother is a miracle. By all accounts he should be dead. The fact that he's alive is a miracle. Then the fact that I can hold a conversation with him and discuss things that take cognitive thought is a miracle! It's been 4 months since the accident and Matt is doing very very well. He has a long road ahead of him but we're all just glad that he's with us. Thanks to all that have been keeping him in your prayers.

IAH

You may or may not have heard about two ladies running through security at IAH, Houston International. Just incase here you go. Two ladies ran through an un-manned security station at IAH. 15 minutes later security monitoring the cameras noticed it. They then shutdown the entire airport. No plans were allowed to leave and those planes that were landing were not allowed to de-plane. I was one of the many who were stuck on a plane that wasn't allowed to de-plane. Finally after an hour we were allowed to get off the plane. Those that didn't have any connecting flights were allowed to leave however everyone else was stuck. Security re-screened around 300 people in the C-B Terminal link and God knows how many in the other terminals. After it was all said and done, they never found the ladies and determined that they were confused. TSA later said that they are no longer looking for the ladies as it seemed to have been an accident and there is no reason to believe that they did anything dangerous. Nice....

Late Night

I travel for work, part of the job. But man did last night suck. I had a 5:10pm flight out of San Antonio to Houston to make a 7:10pm flight to Charlotte. Not too bad. I get to the airport with plenty of time to spare, too much actually, and grabbed a bite to eat. Wouldn't you know that at the time my flight was supposed to be boarding, the previous flight was boarding. Turns out that my flight would be 40 minutes late arriving and thus forced me to find other means to get to Charlotte. The counter attendant set me up with another airline and everything was good. Or so I thought. My flight in DFW, another airline, was delayed by an hour and a half! I finally landed in Charlotte around 12:30am only to stand in line for 30 minutes to get my rental car. Finally at 1:30am I got to the hotel room. Gotta love the late late nights....

Champions Yet Again

"We are the champions. Yes, we are the champions. No time for loosers for we are the champions, of the world." Talk about a great series. Detriot vs. San Antonio, it came down to the wire but we emerged victorious. We dominated the first two games, they dominated the third and forth. We snuck one by them in game five. Detriot did the same in game six. Game seven came down to who would make the least amount of errors and fouls. San Antonio was that team. Hats off to the Pistons though, they put up a great fight and almost took it from us on more than one occasion. We've won the championship 3 times in the last 6 years, 1999, 2003, and 2005. All we need to do now is win next year :) And on that note, GO SPURS GO!

New Site

I have a new website now, jokerr.com. I'll be blogging to both until I get it set up the way I like it. Can't seem to find a really great php based blogging system....

Pray for my brother

My brother Matt was in a sever car accident early Friday morning. The accident happened some time around 3:15 AM about 5 miles from his home. Apparently he plowed into a semi which proceeded to tear the top of the cab off. After 1-3 hours (we don't know for sure how long it took) EMS was able to get him out of the truck and airlifted to the hospital. He has an open fracture on his left knee, bruised lungs, contusions on his liver and spleen, and a depressed skull on his left side. As of last night the doctors were slowly weaning him from the sedative and ventilators to get him to stabilize on his own. We are still in the 72 hour window for letting the brain heal from the massive trauma. After the 72 hours the doctors will work to see which motor skills were affected in the crash; movement, verbal, sight, etc. So if you're reading this, please pray for my brother. Like I said earlier, his name is Matt Kerr and he needs all the prayers that he can get. Thanks.

Laptop, I'm Sorry.

Well it seems that after I bashed my laptop the other day that I discovered some interesting information. It seems that Win Server 2003 has some of the worst driver support arround. So it's not entirely my laptop's fault that the BroadCom drivers won't work under anything but Win2KP/XP. So, Laptop. I'm sorry.