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Be a pal, ditch IE

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Disclaimer: It is the middle of the night, and I’m still coding. And I’m not happy about it. This post is mostly for venting purposes.
I work on a linux machine to do all of my coding (and, well, everything else). This has so far worked great, with one minor exception. I [...]

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A mountain of a man – Bob Powers

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Note: This blog post is a notable departure from the usual programming posts I tend to make. This article is one that I wrote for the Art Of Manliness Lessons in Manliness group writing project. The goal of the project was to write an article about a man in your life that taught [...]

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Halfway to the O.K. Corral

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The saga of Movember is now officially halfway over (or halfway started, if you’re that type of person), and the Mo is coming along quite nicely. I feel confident that I’ll have a winning stash by the 30th. Here is a preview of the current status:

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Movember is an awesome charity that I’ve been following for the past couple years. To the best of my knowledge, no other organization has harnessed the power of the moustache (aka “mo”) like these guys have. Movember is a month long moustache growing competition. As your moustache grows, you recruit sponsors, who [...]

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Vanity

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my online presence. I mean, if I ever start to market Photify.net to other companies, and if anyone there is anything like me, then they’ll instantly type my name into google. So, I put myself in their shoes and did a little ego-search:

It doesn’t look too promising. [...]

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Getting down to business

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

I’m doing it.  I’m actually going to blog about things that may or may not be relevant to other people.  The main point of this blog is to keep people updated on my latest project, Photify.net, while at the same time sharing problems/solutions I’ve had while developing the project, in the hopes that someone else [...]

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