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Cleaning the House, Prepping for Guests

Please excuse the wonkiness over the next day or so. The blog is undergoing a pretty significant overhaul and redesign, as I am preparing for my return to the written word.

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Ringing In 2009

Happy New Year! It’s time to spend some time reflecting on 2008 (and some time relaxing in Vermont). In the meantime, a small but important announcement: I’ve made the decision to rededicate myself in 2009 to publishing here (and elsewhere) on the web about my professional and personal efforts and endeavors. Expect to see some [...]

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Back from Holiday: The Evidence

I returned from vacation to Nantucket earlier this week I believe I’ve finally cleared my head ehough to blog some of the photos taken in 5 days of absolutely nothing.

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Bon Voyage: Off to Vacation

Photo Credit: Kayak the Rockies (Flickr) Ah, technology. The better half and I are currently sitting on the ferry to The Grey Lady, where plan to spend 5 leisure-filled days hobnobbing with the créme de la créme of society. Or so they say. Blogging will be relegated to all things jaunty and sunny, hopefully in [...]

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Happy Birthday, America

It is turning out to be a formative year for our nation. Off all days, the Fourth of July is a great time to remember that, even with the falling dollar and an international reputation, this is still a remarkable country. This year’s primary season, which featured both the first female and the first African [...]

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Monday afternoon was a beautiful one. Since I found myself with some free time, I decided to engage in this summer’s leisure activity of choice: Sitting on a quiet patio with a good cocktail or two and some great reading material. Luckily, such a patio exists not two blocks away from my front stoop. Because [...]

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Hello, I’m a Mac.

I finally made the permanent switch from a PC to a Mac — specifically, a sleek and juiced up MacBook Pro — after years of waffling over the convenience of compatibility (my previous 9-to-5 didn’t supply a laptop and required usage of Windows-only software) and the coolness of Apple’s experience. Having drinks with a Mac-compatible [...]

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Change is Good: A New Gig

With all of the issues I’ve had on this blog — a horrendous hosting provider, a failed experiment with unproven blog software, family craziness, and a case of walking pneumonia, to list but a few — perhaps the reason I’ve been silent here as much as I have was because I have embarked on a [...]

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger…

I’ve moved hosting providers from the atrocious Dreamhost to the more website-friendly HostDiscovery. Thanks to Dave for the video find.

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The Typo Experiment is Over

This weekend I finished migrating this blog over to WordPress, thus ending a six-month experiment with Typo, the WordPress-like blog tool built on top of the web application framework Ruby on Rails. I originally went to Typo for two reasons: To evaluate RoR performance on my ISP (The much-maligned Dreamhost) and to keep up with [...]

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