On Saturday I went down to Morgan Hill for the wedding of my friends Clint and Renais. The ceremony and celebration took place at Clos La Chance Winery. The location was beautiful, as was the ceremony itself, with wonderful vows written by the bride and groom.

And as expected, friends and family partied it up the rest of the evening with friends playing live music at the winery. And after the party ended there we took it back to the Ramada and celebrated well into the night.

I have noticed a lot of sites make the same mistake with an option on their Login interfaces. Most sites these days have an option to "Remember me" when I login. This option sets a cookie that essentially keeps your login valid for a longer time. If you check this option then chances are you will not see the login screen again for a long time. If you never check this option, then you will see the login screen more frequently.

Some sites have the "Remember me" option checked by default and I believe this is a mistake. If I prefer to log in every time I access a site, I shouldn't have to uncheck this option every time. For those people who select "Remember me" it should be quite some time before they have to login again and select the option again. Also, I think people should explicitly set "Remember me" as it is telling the site that you trust the current computer you are on, and it is safer to assume that the current computer is not trusted by default. Lastly, if sites are smart they should be able to tell if the current browser previously had a "Remember me" cookie set and perhaps default the option to on if it was previously set.

Vox.com and eVite check the option by default.

I'm looking forward to things getting back to normal. The last few weeks have been really busy and I've had very little time to myself. It was great to have my sister Dympna here for a week with her husband Stephane, but I'm also happy to have my place back. Work was quite eventful last week also with lots of people visiting from out of town.

This Saturday is Clint and Renais' wedding at a winery near Santa Cruz. It should be a lot of fun. After that, I expect my life to return to a more predictable schedule.

I just got an email from Xanga saying "We've really missed reading your blog. We've been taking care of all your weblogs, photos, and other posts for you. Sign back in to relive the memories..." It seems a little desperate to me.

This is the second such email I have received, which is somewhat annoying. One email reminder should be enough. So, I log in to change my email settings, and the only setting turned on that might account for this reminder is "Get email updates about special notices from Xanga." I turned it off and hopefully that will stop the reminders. But I imagine it will also stop a bunch of other emails that might be of interest to me. Oh well, Xanga chose poorly to send me the same reminder more than once and not provide a more specific setting for such reminders.

Am writing this post from facebook to LiveJournal after reading about it on daveman692's journal. Seems pretty neat.

Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. It is a bachelor party weekend for my friend Clint who is getting married in May. On Saturday I will play a round of golf, haven't done that in years. On Sunday I hope to go diving, but my recent cold and sinus problems might interfere with that plan. Whatever happens, it should be a lot of fun.

This week I finally succumbed to sickness. Over the previous weekend I developed a cough, and by Tuesday a cold started to come on fairly strong. I initially ignored it because the previous two weeks I had felt like I was getting sick also, but I managed to fend it off.

Anyhow, I'm still coughing and have a cold, but it feels like it is fading a little. I'll have to have a quiet weekend and do healthy things, sounds quite boring really. But next week I hope to be recovered and able to take on the world, or at least be able to breathe through my nose and not burst into fits of coughing.

I have a black eye. Picked it up sparring with a guy named Jason on Friday. He was visiting our class and has some quick Tae Kwon Do kicks, one of which caught my left eye.

I went to the doctor late yesterday afternoon to see about getting antibiotics for strep throat. Turns out doctors don't believe just believe you when you tell them what your ailment is(I even knew what medicaton I wanted), so I had my throat swabbed and I dropped my swab off at the lab for testing. This morning I logged on to the Kaiser Permanente website to see if they had my results, sure enough my tests result awaited and the verdict is "NEGATIVE FOR GROUP A STREP BY DNA PROBE". I'm fairly amazed at how efficient KP is and that they have this information waiting for me online the next morning. Oh, and I feel better than I did yesterday, so maybe I'm just run down from a very busy week last week.

Last week I had a full week of Martial Arts. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I had my Wing Chun class. Tuesday and Thursday I had Muay Thai. Saturday was a full day seminar with John Kang in Union City, which was really good. And Sunday John put on a special class for instructor training. While I'm not teaching my own students or class yet, I sometimes substitute for my teacher Will in San Francisco.

I was completely wiped by late yesterday afternoon and slept for 3-4 hours, waking up around 9pm feeling somewhat disoriented.

I'm feeling pretty good this morning, a little hazy, but I had a great 10 days in Belize. At our peak we had a group of about 13 people, 8 of which were there most or all of the time. We had 2 returns, brad and markpasc both didn't make it out on the day they expected and rolled back to Caye Caulker for one more tonight.

I completed the PADI Assistant Instructor course, taking me one step closer to being able to teach people how to scuba dive. pookamagoo, Diana, Kelly and Kim completed the Open Water Diver course and are now certified to dive. daveman692, ppaquin and I accompanied the new divers on their open water 3 and 4 dives, and provided some entertainment.

On a Sunset Cruise on friday evening henry proposed to lisa, you should talk to lisa for the rest of the story. It was really sweet.

It was great to see everyone have such a good time, and I always appreciate how welcoming so many people are in Belize. I got asked a few times if I was a tour guide, I think I might have to make it more official.

I'm leaving for Belize tonight and arrive there tomorrow morning. I'm really looking forward to a break from everything. I almost wish I hadn't signed up for doing the Assistant Instructor scuba certification while I'm there. I would much prefer to have almost nothing planned, but I will probably get that out of the way early and have plenty of time to relax and enjoy myself. There are lots of great people coming again this time, it should be lots of fun. And if you're tempted, just show up; Caye Caulker, Belize.

Directions:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=17.745703,-88.024564&spn=0.016962,0.028839&t=h&z=15

I'm against valentine's day, and when I state my position, especially on the day itself, I often get asked if I'm single. Today I am single, and that's the way I prefer it. I dislike Valentine's day even more when I'm in a relationship. In my opinion, romance on V-Day is fake. True romance should be an idea I come up with myself, not something prompted by a cheesy holiday.

So, I don't buy anyone valentine's gifts, but I will probably give away the ones I received. I don't wish anyone a happy valentine's day, and I'd rather not receive such wishes. About the only good thing that happens today is a Pillow Fight.

I decided to vote in the Green Party primary for Cynthia McKinney. She is the best candidate I've ever seen running under the Green Party banner, and could possibly help turn that party into less of a fringe group. Having only two parties run government does not make for great democracy. It will take strong and experienced politicians, who can talk to all people, to make the US Green party noticeable.

It was a little more paperwork to vote Green, even though I'm registered Independent. I had to fill out a provisional ballot, which I'm guessing does not get counted until well after the results have been decided. It is somewhat annoying that it couldn't be as easy as choosing a Democrat nominee.

The fence between my in-law apartment and the neighboring apartments was blown down in the big storm we had a few weeks ago. The landlord next-door wants to put up a chain-link fence, where there used to be a wood fence without gaps. I liked the old fence, decrepit as it was, and would like a new wood fence in its place. Thankfully my own landlord asked me my opinion and will see what he can do, but I wonder if there is anything I can do? I imagine I should have some say in the replacement of a fence that borders my entrance and provides me with privacy from my neighbors.

I just added treehugger_rss as a Feed on LJ. I could do with becoming a little more environmentally responsible, and this might be good inspiration.

I was in Berkeley on Saturday celebrating my friend Eleen getting married to Jimmy. It was a really beautiful wedding and lots of fun. The wedding cake and cupcakes were very creative, as was the movie about the newlyweds, and the Faculty Club at the college was a nice location for the recpetion. I was told I was very "setupable" which I take as a compliment, but now I'm a little concerned about actually getting set up.

I'm already invited to three weddings this year, and the first is this Saturday. In preparation I watched the movie Wedding Crashers last night. A thoroughly cheesy movie, with the occasional bright spot. Anyhow, I've gained no insight into how best to enjoy a wedding, does anyone have any suggestions?

I would also be open to ideas on how I could get a date with Rachel McAdams?