Apparently Microsoft only sees the light if you are running the Windows operating system. Silverlight, their way to deliver feature-rich web content, will at first glance only run on a "Silverlight-compatible" Windows operating system and browser. After doing some digging (and non-working links), I could find that Mac OS 10 is supported for Firefox and Safari, and Linux users are referred to Novell for Firefox support.

I was looking into "Expression Web" that a friend is using, and as I found www.microsoft.com/expression I was told to install the latest version of Silverlight. Otherwise I could not view all the features on that page.

I am disappointed but not really surprised that Microsoft locks people out of their web content due to their web design. I have similar concerns when web designers choose to use Flash menus and leave no alternatives to navigate the site.

If as a web developer you truly want as many people visiting the site, then don't make your visitors jump hoops. Many people will just click away and not come back.

Just to let everyone know that there is a new blog ...

That means there will likely be not much more activity here.

For personal reasons, Joy's coming here has been postponed by a few months.

On this beautiful Easter morning, I can now share our wedding plans. Joy will join me from Malaysia in July and we will become husband and wife. We have known each other for 1 year and 4 and a half months, and even though it did not start out with marriage in mind, God has been revealing His plan to us gradually.

Thank you, Father, for Resurrection Power. Happy Easter!

The first thunderstorm and spring rains are here.

Like Good Friday and Easter promise a new beginning, I see a new beginning not just in nature, but also in my life.  Resurrection power!

Today truly is Good Friday. Not only do we celebrate the sacrifice made by God to set us free forever, but I personally celebrate another sacrifice. My dear friend Joy has resigned her job to come to Edmonton to be with me. Her marriage over, her job finished, I look forward to us making a new life for ourselves.

Now it's time to tell the family.

This Earth Hour I turned off all my non-essential electric stuff. Sad to see I was the only one in my apartment complex...

Next year I hope to promote everybody make love to their partner for an hour!

I was encouraged to post my cancer posts from this blog as a pdf that can be read in chronological order.

"This is the personal diary of myself, Gerry Danen, and how I dealt with colon cancer, treatment, and recovery.
If you are a cancer patient, or have family or friends with cancer, this candid diary may give you some insights into what happens not just to the body, but also to the mind of someone faced with this challenge. Most of all, I pray these words will give you hope.
The account runs from December 2003 to March 2008, from diagnosis to final test."

Download the 600KB pdf file from medical.gerrydanen.com.

Preparing to move all my domains to a new server, which will cost me more, but will be much faster. Especially danen.org has been really bogged down lately.

So... if you cannot get to one of my sites in the next few weeks, we're working on it!

A very happy new year to all of my friends and family!!!