I picked up a couple of Air Quality Eggs through Kickstarter. They’re neat gadgets that can be equipped with a variety of sensors to monitor the air.
I’ll write more about them later. For now I just want to announce a Chrome extension that I’ve written to make life a little better when checking their web pages.
Now that our cats are becoming elderly, they need some kitty meds. Nothing too serious, but some daily pills, probably more to come.
We’re very fortunate to have cats who love pill pockets and are not clever enough to extract the pill from the pocket and just enjoy the treat. They love them enough that they demand them on schedule. 
Temporarily.
Zooty and Rebo are 15 years old now and are starting to show some wear and tear. Rebo is recently on blood pressure medication (older kidney problems led to high blood pressure which led to thickening of the heart wall which lead to a heart murmur); Zooty is hyperthyrodial.
Kidney and thyroid problems are common in housecats. You know when you see your vet and they ask you questions about whether your cat’s behavior has changed recently? If it has, that can be a symptom of thyroid problems. Hyperthyroidism cranks up the cat’s metabolism and can lead to things like 3AM yowling, vomiting and general hyperactivity.
I was curious about writing browser extensions so I decided to put together a simple one for Google’s Chrome browser.
Some time back, Ryan Freebern, a friend who put together the first decent layout for UVFood.com, released a bit of Javascript called Falling in Love, which would decorate your browser with falling hearts. You know, for Valentine’s.
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine’s CPU and GPU are quite fast… and Warcraft had been running much better.
In fact, it was now generating around 8 frames per second (type control-R while running it to get the fps displayed). I tried exiting other applications, killing background software, rebooting, nothing helped. Then it mysteriously improved and was quite playable for a while (30fps). A couple of days later for no apparent reason it cranked back down to 8fps.
