When I called him at his office, his secretary told me that he was out sick. His whole family has had the pleasure of tangling with that nasty stomach flu that's going around this winter. They've only just gotten through that and now Shane's got the cold flu that's going around. I left him a message – he was sick enough that he had gone to the doctor's office – telling him about the Wired News story and wishing him well.

After a round of phone tag, we finally got to talk. I had a great time talking with Shane. We talked about his health (he feels he's on the mend) and about Colette (if she's got colic, it's an easy case of it). From there we moved on to other topics. He was having problems with Netscape and a web site. While I didn't find the problem conclusively I think the problem was a stupid JavaScript that moved an image around on the page. The problem wasn't with the JavaScript directly; the problem was that the pages were so image laden that Shane wasn't waiting for them to finish loading before he clicked on the next link. I think the JavaScript was having trouble manipulating the image on a page that was interrupted, so Netscape shut down.

The technical issue aside, we talked about everything, from wind surfing to Wing Commander Prophecy (I told him to download the demo). It was nice to catch up with him again. I may get to see him and everyone in Philadelphia before March is over, but plans are still in the works for that.