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.

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.]

[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.]

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.]

• Banana Banana Banana: Placeholder text indicating that documentation is in progress or yet to be completed. Mostly used because FxCop complains when a public function lacks documentation.
• Bugfoot: A bug that isn’t reproducible and has been sighted by only one person.
• Counterbug: A defensive move useful for code reviews. If someone reviewing your code presents you with a bug that’s your fault, you counter with a counterbug: a bug caused by the reviewer.
• Shrug Report: A bug report with no error message or “how to reproduce” steps and only a vague description of the problem. Usually contains the phrase “doesn’t work.”
• Smug Report: A bug report submitted by a user who thinks he knows a lot more about the system’s design than he really does. Filled with irrelevant technical details and one or more suggestions (always wrong) about what he thinks is causing the problem and how we should fix it.

[Via New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy.]

Now Hollywood is suffering a shorts overdose. Execs and agents realize a guy with a computer can create a spaceship over a city but wonder if that person can tell a story. And not just once, in a hyped-up short.

Adam Sandler seems to think this short has something special. Watch it again below because it’s just that awesome. Here’s hoping they don’t screw it up…

The French filmmaker behind “Pixels,” Patrick Jean, has teamed up with Adam Sandler’s production banner Happy Madison to develop a big-screen take. The team is in talks with Columbia, where Happy Madison has its first-look deal, to set up the project at the studio.

[Via Adam Sandler taking Pixels to big-screen.]

Trying to decide whether to implement that great HTML5 or CSS3 feature you just read about? Take a look at the HTML5 & CSS3 readiness dashboard to see if it’s supported in your target browsers. It’s not the most visually informative or user-friendly way of presenting the data but it works. It’s also neat to compare the state of the browser in 2010 with 2009 or 2008.

[Via: information aesthetics]

I’m a big fan of Fallout 3 (and of the greater post-apocalyptic genre) so I am very excited for New Vegas. Destructoid has the details on the collector’s edition which will be available when the game is released this fall.

[Via: Destructoid]