I did the site design for my sister’s wedding website last weekend. It is a very simple design, but I was happy with getting a few decorative elements inside containers that expand to arbitrary size (yay bulletproof web design!).
Interesting op-ed piece in today’s nytimes, written by some economists at the Federal Reserve in Dallas. They provide data which shows that the ratio of consumption per person of the richest and poorest fifths of America is 2.1. This is quite surprising to me, but makes sense in terms of the falling costs of many of the goods that we consider desirable (TVs, DVD players, cell phones, computers).
This is the kind of change of prosperity that we will lose if we erect more barriers to trade.
Wow, it has been over a month since my last blog post. I guess that is because I got rather busy in lab. We cooled down a sample mid-November and I was in lab every day until Christmas (except Thanksgiving). Hopefully all this work will produce some progress!
In the meantime there have been several holidays, during which good times were had by all. I got a new digital SLR (a Canon 30D) which has revived by interest in photography. Witness the proliferation of photos on my flickr account, if you don’t believe me. We also got some fun news right after Christmas: Kelly and Brandon are engaged! I think Brandon is a great guy, so I am very happy for my sister.
This also means that my wedding count for the next year will rival the six weddings I went to in 2007 (not including my own). I wonder how long this wedding season will continue? I still have a lot of unmarried friends…
I’ve posted all sorts of photos from the wedding on flickr. Thank you to all those who let my friend Ben download their pictures so that I could get them.
My cousin-in-law, John Green, is co-author of video blog Brotherhood2.0. Last week featured an entry from Phyllis and my wedding! Our hotel in Lake Louise had a computer with internet access but no speakers, so we watched it several times without sound trying to figure out what John was saying about us. Eventually we broke down and went to an internet cafe in Banff to get the full experience.
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