the life and times of endenizen

Halley and I went to the beautiful island of Oahu for a romantic getaway over 4th of July weekend. Also, we got engaged! Check out some more pictures here: Hawaii Trip July 2010.

I went to the Pride Parade yesterday and snapped some pics. It was a beautiful day and everyone looked like there were having a great time. Check out the rest at my flickr set: San Francisco Pride Parade 2010.

The outlook is bleak on the yearly Bay to Breakers race as ING has decided to stop footing the bill. The official word from Sam Singer, a spokesman for the race, is that they simply “chose not to renew for the 100th anniversary next year”.

Unofficially, however, word is ING is fed up with all the bad publicity that the race has generated in recent years, especially the complaints of residents around the Panhandle and Alamo Square about revelers and runners urinating, defecating and generally behaving rudely.

Let’s hope someone else steps in as the sponsor. The beer industry should be able to get behind this, right? Budweiser? Or is Tecate more the San Francisco style? They’re practically the official sponsor of Dolores Park already.

[Via: Sponsor ING drops Bay to Breakers.]

First, an announcement from today: the next version of Android. Better performance, wifi tethering (!), ‘update all’, and more! I can’t wait to get this. These are much-needed updates that make the platform much more powerful. Check out the embedded video below for details.

[Via: Google Announces the Next Version of Android.]

Next, an announcement from yesterday: easy web fonts! The previous solutions to non-web-fonts-on-the-web involved rendering images, embedding flash objects, or using canvas (when it was available). These methods might have gotten the job done, but they were difficult to implement and each had its share of drawbacks.

Along comes Google Font API and all those problems disappear. Now you can easily use real fonts without adding complexity. Best of all, it’s cross-browser (even IE6!) and works just the way it should: just set the font-family in css. I’ve already added a new font to my blog which you can see in the screenshot. It really was as easy as they say:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">
<style>
  body {
    font-family: 'Tangerine', serif;
    font-size: 48px;
  }
</style>

(Note: I’m not actually using Tangerine. I tried it, and it’s gross.)

[Via: Making Good Typography on the Web Easier: Google Introduces Font API and Directory.]

Another new restaurant coming to the Haight? Parada 22 turned out to be very impressive (not to mention delicious) and we could certainly use more of that.

Mamas Kitchen, previously located at 321 Kearny Street and not to be confused with the ever-popular Mamas in North Beach, is looking to reopen in the Haight in place of what is currently a tattoo parlor called Soul Patch 1599 Haight.

[Via Mama’s Kitchen Coming to the Haight -- Grub Street San Francisco.]