Kira Brianne Anvik joined our family at 2:50 pm on September 22, 2006 at the Children and Women’s Health Centre in Vancouver, BC. She weighed in at 8 lbs 6 oz. and 20 inches. The delivery was as normal as can be expected, and both Mom and Kira went home the evening of the next [...]

Due to popular demand, we have posted more photos of Clara here. Clara’s favorite things to do are eat, sleep, and scream at the top of her lungs when things don’t seem quite right. Occasionally, however, she will look around at the world around her and take it all in.

When Nels and I hiked to Norvan Falls last April, we said that we would come back in September and hike the back country area that was still closed from the winter. For six months I had been looking forward to this hike and made an assortment of arrangements in preparation for it, including [...]

I thought that people might be interested in some of the exposure that my research work is getting. This posting recently appeared on a blog for the Eclipse Project (the Eclipse Project is a large open-source project for a development environment for Java). Now granted, the authour is member of my supervisory committee and he [...]