This is the second, out of five, Valentines Days where Beth and I have been together. The last one had a bit more hustle thought. We were preparing to move her and the boys back to Ohio while I finished my tour of duty. I miss the Marine Corps, but it is on days like today that I really relish the my decision to become a civilian again and spend more time with my family.
Although I believe Valentine’s Day to be a “Hallmark Holiday,” I do believe in the sentiment. I am lucky to have such a wonderful woman in my life, and I am glad to have a day to reflect on that fact. I love you Beth.
Measure Map has been aquired by Google. I had actually read this earlier in the day, but I just received this email:
I want to share some important news with our earliest users of Measure Map.
Since its inception, my colleagues and I have seen tremendous potential for Measure Map to influence how people blog, and how they understand participation on the Web. We have always expected it to be big, and as such, our desire was to give Measure Map its start and then send it out into the world to grow and evolve into a strong, meaningful application.
Through the dedication of a fantastic team, along with your tremendous support in the form of feedback, feature requests, and overwhelmingly positive comments, have built a product that is fundamentally different from every other analytics application available today. We’re both grateful and proud.
So I said there was news, and here it is: I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been acquired by Google, effective today. For the near term, you will see no difference in its operations. In the not so distant future, you can expect great things from this acquisition. We couldn’t be happier to find such an ideal home for Measure Map, and are thrilled at the possibilities.
I currently use both Google Analytics and Measure Map to track statistics of my sites, but this site has always been my test bed. I would like to see more analytic type of functionality with the format Measure Map tracking, although lately the comment tracking has not been working for me. I also hope that the statistics RSS will gain some more functionality.
I finally got around to upgrading the photo gallery from Gallery 1.5 to Gallery 2.0.
Beth took today off. It was originally for a doctor’s appointment, but the need for the appointment was no longer there, so she cancelled. Her supervisor said that it was too late not to take the day off, so she had a day off and nothing to do. Unfortunately, I had to go to work as usual.
This day off afforded Beth the opportunity to sleep in as long as the kids would let her. Both of the kids sleep with their doors closed and are good about not coming out until we come in and get them. Although, until today, Tony had no other recourse.
Beth was awakened by one of the children pounding on their door. That is not too unusual. Beth got up to get RJ and then saw that RJ was still sleeping. Tony had gotten out of his crib!
It is now only a matter of weeks before we will take down the crib and put Tony in a toddler bed so that he does not fall out of the crib and hurt himself.
