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Politics, balancing rocks, and a blogger confessional
“It’s been two weeks since my last weekly roundup.” That feels like a confession….(and maybe a misnomer)…I’ll have to get over my own hangups about the kind of blogger I should be, and just go with the flow of what works for me. It’s been a busy couple weeks with (a) people visiting, and (b) [...]
Overcoming user entrenchment is getting harder and harder
I’ve been looking at some new “hot” sites out there recently and to be honest haven’t been that sold. There is a lot of stuff that seems to be trying to solve the same problems we already have tools for, but in just a slightly different way.
I’m sorry, but the bottom line for me is [...]
Blogging for mental clarity
I read a great post this week that inspired me to blog more. Why? To reduce my sense of information overload. Yeah, not the first thing you would think of, but I have to say, Michael Gilbert’s argument makes a lot of sense to me. It merges with some of the “Getting Things Done” (GTD) [...]
Nothing like a garage fire….
… to make you leave your computer.
I had plans to write a post up about how I was modifying the mongrel_cluster gem to allow for a rolling restart of mongrels, and I was partway into getting it to work when I smelled smoke.
After a bit of running around I realized that the neighbours garage was [...]
And we’re off…..another blog is born
I’ve been putting off starting a blog for months now. I’ve blogged in the past, but never been able to keep much of a schedule, but this time feels different. I’ve got many reasons to post this time, but first and foremost is that I’m now a father.
Why does that matter? Well, in some strange [...]
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