Chris Contolini

Hi folks. It’s been a while. I fell off the blogging wagon because I became busy and lazy and repetitive and lazy. I also moved from Nextel to Sprint so I became mologogo-less. This made me very sad as I was no longer able to tell everyone where I was at all hours of the day. Google maps — you’ve been good to me, but I think we need a break.

Since my last update, I have taken to a new place of employment. I spend my days as Webmaster of the Electronic Frontier Foundation where I help lawyers and activists cross swords with the scourge of the interwebs. It’s a great place to work. EFF has been around for eighteen years and if you’re not a member you should consider becoming one — we’re a membership supported organization.

I’ve also begun biking a lot. I commute via bicycle around seven miles (roundtrip) to and from work everyday through city traffic. It’s a lot of fun. And really dangerous at times. Which makes it fun. I ride my dad’s 1975 motobecane super mirage which is becoming exceptionally rickety and will soon be replaced by a beautiful 1982 colnago once I finish building it.

I was debating whether I should port my old blog entries into this new blog and I decided not to. It’s nice to start anew and most of my old entries were painful to read. But that’s how it is with all old blog material. I think I’ll leave the old geoblog online for archival purposes and redirect the rss feed to this one. Yes, that will do.

You’ve probably noticed the ridiculousness of this blog. I’ve always been fascinated by horizontal layouts but I’ve never seen a fluid horizontal layout. With the help of jQuery and a great plugin I think I’ve built a wordpress theme that will widen horizontally when necessary. It’s quite buggy at this point and makes IE6 cry. I’ll fix that over the next few days. When I get to it.

In three weeks Travis, my housemate, and I will be traveling from Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Siberian railway. More on that later. I am going to eat dinner now.