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August 15, 2007

Goofy little things

So around this time last year, two days from now, actually, I heard the sad, terrible news about my friend Mike Simanoff. As we later found out, he had a long battle with depression and in the end it was too much for him. But Mike's life was so much more than that, and I'm really glad that he was my friend.

I met Mike in a web design class in library school. He sat in the row behind me and discovered I had a blog after catching me working on it during class. I wasn't supposed to, but I'm glad he found me out. Otherwise we might have remained mere classmates.

Before I really got to know Mike, there was a session where we all had to present on a web-related topic, and Mike gave a surprisingly brief presentation. He explained that we should add a forward slash (/) at the end of a URL when loading it into a browser, because it helps the page load more quickly. His presentation was five minutes tops, and it left an impression on me because it was so simple and effective. I wish I had done something like that instead of whatever overly complicated concept I discussed in my own presentation.

So now I do that all the time, and maybe it's a goofy little thing, but it's a way that I get to remember him.