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Buying Time
For the last several years I have been working essentially as a contractor/consultant rather than a full time employee. These engagements are of varying lengths and generally center around specific projects. This arrangement suits me well as I prefer to think of my job as working on a Project rather than for a Company and…
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Spokefest 2010
Pretty excited about SpokeFest tomorrow. I did it the first year with the little girl but didn’t make it after that. This year they added a 47 mile option which should be fun. With that and the ride to downtown it should be about 67 for me. This year I even have a T-shirt.
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Thoughts on Random Thoughts
Yesterday I put up a post on my blog about programming. I did this because I had read an earlier post that inspired me about the idea of trying to write something every day. The basic idea was that if you keep at it you will get better. So I had a go. The incredible…
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Obsession
Sometimes when I am feeling a little obsessed with something. I wonder where I stand on some kind of scale relative to other people. Today I wonder, what FedEx package has had the most hits on its tracking page.
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Nimbulist
I finally actually finished an iPhone app and put it in the store. Its pretty simple but solves a problem I actually had. I am a big user of Evernote and but thier iPhone client is pretty clunky for editing todo lists. Nimbulist (app store link) lets you do this quickly with what I think…
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Getting Auto updates to work in recent WordPress
If you are in this hell: Connection Information: To preform the requested action… This guy is your friend: Direct plugin auto-update on WordPress 2.8 Quick version: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);
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Bike ride photo…
Saw this on a ride recently. What exactly is GOD charging these days for Freedom?
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The best part of travel
Starts after the plane lands. just starting an 11 day trip to el Salvador with optional side trip to Guatemala. Writing this using the neighbors’ wifi from my friends house here in auachapan. Flights we all good and I’m looking forward to heading to sonsonate tomorrow. Hopefully there will be better photos then too. Btw.…
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Heading south
Heading back to El Salvador for 11 days tomorrow. Been looking forward to this trip for a while. I hope to post some updates here.
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I have a Meritline Problem
Its just so hard to resist when you can buy a laser and have it shipped to you from around the world for 0.89. Every day these temptations enter my inbox. How can I be expected to resist? I don’t even know what it means by Banknote checking…