Category Archives: Personal

Outsourcing Reality

June 28, 2008 – 12:19 am

Steph and I have been thinking and conversing a lot lately about how we, as a society, are losing touch with the day-to-day reality of survival. In some ways this can be seen as progress, and in others it’s a dangerous trend. The difficult part is distinguishing which side each outsourced piece of life falls [...]

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Moved In

June 25, 2008 – 9:22 am

(Warning: this is a blatant and potentially boring “Life Update” entry!)
For those of you who haven’t moved across the country, let me give you a tip: even if it’s a good move (as it was for us), realize the amount of work you’re getting into before doing it. It’s a ton of work. Furthermore, when [...]

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Blog Tag Cloud

June 13, 2008 – 12:43 am

 
Wordle is a site on which you can make beautiful tag clouds to show the words used most often in any text snippet. I dumped in all the text of my entire blog (minus the comments) and I got this tag cloud:
Apparently I talk a lot about time, people, and Steph.
 

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Five Years of Blogging

May 30, 2008 – 9:20 am

This blog’s fifth anniversary recently passed. I posted my first entry here on May 28th, 2003, and it’s been an interesting ride ever since. (When I started this blog, I had no intention of ever becoming a web developer. Then I fell in love with web standards and web authoring, and now it’s my profession.)
People [...]

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The Storm

May 28, 2008 – 8:54 am

Last Sunday, the 25th, we were hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm. Large parts of the Twin Cities metro area didn’t feel a thing, but in Forest Lake, we had some really serious winds, crazy sideways rain, and marble-sized hail. I didn’t get video of the worst of it because I was hiding in the [...]

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Caleb & Photo Booth

May 21, 2008 – 9:35 pm

Caleb and I had some fun tonight with Photo Booth when I had him in the Baby Bjorn.

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I Feel Great! Again!

April 16, 2008 – 10:05 pm

I’m closing on my first house in two days, but no, I’m not going to write about something meaningful like that. Not tonight, anyhow. The thing that has compelled me more than any other to sit down and blog tonight is the discovery of a commercial. But not just any commercial. A commercial I already [...]

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