September 2010
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Thu 9th
Current Status
A year ago I started collaborating with my friend Lawrence to develop custom software that hooked up technical experts with people in need. We launched WPQuestions first, and later, PHP Emergency, Symfony Experts, Javascript Questions and MYSQL Emergency which are aggregated at our umbrella site CodeWise.
January 2009
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Wed 7th
Update: Spider, Frog and Turtle
Late last summer, I blogged about 3 critters my girlfriend and I had found nearly drowning in a pool filter. Since then, the story has gotten some exposure.
September 2008
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Mon 1st
All the Way Down
At the swimming pool, Wistar and I sometimes poke around in the filters to see what animal carnage might be swirling around. Usually it’s frogs, Japanese beetles, dragonflies, grasshoppers or some combination. This is especially true during summer storms, like this week’s heavy rainfall which surely killed hundreds of animals unlucky enough to be trapped in small spaces.
February 2008
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Wed 20th
Tell Me About Your Town
After thinking about it for awhile, I’ve committed to renting out my house for two months this summer so I can live abroad and work remotely. The plan is to find a room in some beach town, work on what is hopefully a reliable and fast connection, and otherwise travel, surf, read, write, drink in bars, and clear my head for awhile…
September 2007
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Sun 30th
Looking for More than Music
My music collection, both store-bought and digitally encoded, numbers in the thousands of albums at this point, yet I go through periods of feeling burnt out on all of it, every single song and every single album. For the past couple years I’ve been seeking alternatives – talk radio, lectures, news, comedy.
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Tue 18th
New Charlottesville Panoramas Plus Photomerge Tips
A year ago I bought the Canon Powershot S3 IS after comparing about ten different cameras and driving the Best Buy staff to distraction. I mainly chose the S3 for its 12x optical zoom and Stitch-Assist (panorama) function and right there ends my entire repertoire of digital camera jargon. The Stitch-Assist has been easy to [...]
