Update on San Jose Sharks In the Pool

Here is the current standing of friends in the In the Pool contest.

Sheryl (finfanatic): 3
Steve (puckinnet): 2
Tim E. (teverett96): 1

As bad as the San Jose Sharks are playing... it makes it hard to get any points when the team doesn't score any goals.

Look for me to make a move in the next week to the top of the list.

Congrats to Paul and Valerie Greenway

Paul and Valerie have a new little girl in their lives. She was born on Oct 22, weighing in over 8lbs.

I should have written down the entire name... but her first name is Lauren (not sure how they are spelling it).

The entire family, Paul, Valerie, Kevin, and the new one are all doing great.

Music from DVD

I have been asked by a couple of people for the list of music that I used on the DVD that I put together to remember the life and beauty of Samantha.

The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow
Jerry Garcia - Ripple
Jerry Garica Band - How Sweet It Is
Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground - Perfect Day
Rubyhorse - Sparkle
Grateful Dead - Eyes of the World

Remember

Samantha was my best friend, my partner, and the love of my life. Even though our life together was short, 9 years, I felt I knew her my entire life.

I will remember the New Year Eve where the words "I love you, Samantha" were spoken for the very first time.

I will remember the Monterey night in October, 7 years ago, where Sam agreed to be my wife while tears of happiness ran down each of our faces.

I will remember the many trips to Disneyland, Great America, Magic Mountain, and Cedar Point riding roller coasters until we both felt that we had concussions and convincing each other to ride "just one more".

I will remember her laughing.

I will remember the night we spent in a parking lot, so that we could buy our dream home together. Never quite believing that it was real.

I will remember going to my first Grateful Dead concert with Sam. Learning to share her love for the music. The pain she felt when she learned of the death of Jerry Garcia.

I will remember having to drag her to her first San Jose Sharks game and being dragged by her to every game afterwards.

I will remember sharing popcorn and a soda with her at movies.

I will remember her smile as she spent time with the kids in her life. As well as the pain she felt with the difficulties we had in having a child.

I will remember her driving and always waiting until she really should be paying attention to her driving to start using her cell phone but I will also remember many long drives, listening to music, and enjoying her singing along with the music.

I will remember the love that she shared with me.

I will remember her.

I love you Sunny

Miniature Earth

Check out Miniature Earth (http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/miniature_earth/miniature_earth.htm).

It will give you a perspective on the world that you might enjoy.

Donation Information Redux

In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Samantha's name to:

Inn Vision
www.innvision.org
974 Willow Street
San Jose, CA 95125

The money will be used to help at risk mothers and their young children.

The Site was crawled by Google

The Everett Family Blog was visited today by the "crawler" from Google.

What does that mean?

Google is one of the most widely used search engine websites on the Internet. To allow people to search for sites, Google needs to effectively visit every website at least once to find out what is on the site. That work is done by a "crawler", as in a webcrawler.

A crawler is a program that simply goes and visits a website, making sure to visit each and every link on the site, recording information about each page.

How do you know a crawler has visited the site?

The crawler on visiting a website will first try to access a file called "robots.txt". If programmers were consistent, I would have expected the crawler to look for a file that was in the motif of spiders (like the world wide web, crawler, etc)... but nope, Instead they went with to a different idea for this particular thing.

robots.txt is a file that tells the crawler what they can and can not crawl on a site. Allows a website to be able to pick and chose what they want searchable vs what they want to keep private. If robots.txt doesn't exists, then the site is telling the crawler to feel free to visit every part of the site. Everett Family Blog does not have a robot.txt file.

OK, I kinda understand that, but how do you know a crawler has visited?

That is simple. A log is kept every time somebody visits the site. I have another piece of software that does log analysis. In the log, information is stored including files that were requested that did not exist. Tonight for the first time, the file "robots.txt" was requested and it was displayed in the log analysis tool.

The last piece of the puzzle is that I can tell what domain each request is from. A domain being for example: aol.com, comcast.com covad.net, etc. Today a request was made from the domain googlebot.com.

So what did we learn today. Programmers have a strong tendency to mix metaphors... In this case the mixture was between the "spider" metaphor and "robot" metaphor. Makes all of this seem even more difficult than it actually is to people not as initimately familiar with it.

Enough computer crap for today...

Battle of the Brothers

Check out In The Pool. It is a San Jose Sharks contest.

As the site says: "The objective of the game is to score the most points by selecting players that you think will score during each game or the goaltenders who will earn a victory. First prize is a Compaq Evo laptop computer, that is wireless compatible. Second prize will be a Sharks jersey, signed by the Sharks player of your choice. Third prize is an official sjsharks.com polo shirt."

Steve and I are both playing. You can view where we are in the standings by going to Current Standing

The easiest way to find us in the list is to use the Find within the browser. To use find either press ctrl-F or go to the menu item Edit | Find (on this page)...

My id is teverett96 while Steve's id is puckinnet. As of today, we both have 0 (zero) points. Who will get the first point???

Anybody else playing the game? If so, let us know your id.

Donation Information

In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Samantha's name to:

Inn Vision - The Way Home
www.innvision.org
974 Willow Street
San Jose, CA 95125

The money will be used to help at risk mothers and their young children.

Life of Tim Update

I have been pretty busy over the last few days working on putting together a DVD of pictures of Samantha for the Memorial. I find myself just emotionally drained at the end of the day.

I do have a lot of great friends helping me. The memorial is going to be on Oct 18th, from 1 pm to 4pm. Either myself or a friend will be contacting people this week to provide even more details. Please email me at teverett96@yahoo.com if we happen to not get a hold of you.

Also for anybody that might be reading this that I haven't talked to in person, please let me know via my email, your contact information. I don't want to accidently excluded anybody just because I didn't know how to get a hold of you.

Early Picture of Sam

I have no idea when or where this picture was taken, or who the dog is... Does anybody know?

Sam's personality just shines on some of the early pictures that I have of her. Her sense of mischievous and fun is very clear. It always strikes me that the photographer was lucky if she slowed down just enough for a picture to be taken.

New Year's Eve '94

Samantha and I shared a very special night together on New Year's Eve 1994. We had meet in October, so this was our first special date, our first New Year's Eve together.

I borrowed a "funky" suit from my brother. She and I went to a beautiful dinner in Capitola at Shadowbrook. Followed by a short drive into Santa Cruz for a round of indoor minature golf.

Samantha always seemed to make it a point to hit the golf ball as hard she could at some point... She rarely finished a round of minature golf with her ball.

After golf, we went to see a local band called Pele Juju.

It was a great night, great music, dancing, and most of all, a night spent with a beautiful woman.

The drive home was exciting for a couple of reasons... the first because she and I witnessed a car accident on Highway 17, a very curvy and windy road. All we saw was sparks flying as a car in front of us scraped against a barrier.

The big reason that night was special roughly 9 years ago was that I had planned along to tell Samantha that I loved her for the very first time. My heart was racing...

Once we got back to my little apartment in Mountain View, I said the words "I love you, Samantha" for the very first, the first time of many...