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The Horrible Patient
It’s kind of ironic, I guess, that I wait until after the holiday and weeks after being around a bunch of ill people at work before I finally succumb to the head cold that’s been going around. The weather in Austin has been up and down lately �" last night we hit a low near freezing �" and...
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Published a day ago

Exercising My Right to be Lazy
‘Tis the Sunday after Thanksgiving and all through the house Not a creature is stirring, especially not my lazy dog The stockings have been hung by the TV with care Because this is Texas and we don’t have a fireplace �" get real! And enough of the writing in verse.  It’s gotten chilly...
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Published 3 days ago

Suck it, iStockPhoto
I’m still a little bitter that iStockPhoto has found me … what was the term?  Below “our minimum standards of quality”?  Hence, I feel I’ve been redeemed ever since one of my photos was solicited for a book on modern architecture, and then I got the following message today: I am...
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Published 5 days ago

Links for 2008-11-26 [del.icio.us]
How To Geotag Your Photos
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Published 7 days ago

So Much for World Peace
  I was idly flipping around the Web when all of a sudden I ran across the news coming out of Mumbai about the terrorist attacks and the hostage situation in the Taj Hotel (which I’ve stayed in, and that, as I write this, is shown on fire both on CNN/IBN and Al-Jazeera). I suppose it’s...
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Published a week ago

Domestimplicity
Tuesday morning, back in the office.  It’s a bit chilly here in Austin, but it’s nowhere near as cold as it was this weekend in DC … not that I’d really know from the handful of times I actually got out of the conference hotel. I got home late Sunday night expecting to find the house...
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Published a week ago

It’s a Small World …
Let me get this out of the way: Delta Air Lines is not my favorite airline, and my flight yesterday failed to change that perception in any way.  It was the second occasion on which I have booked myself a “direct” flight (i.e., one that stops at Point B but theoretically continues with the...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Hated Phrases
I stumbled this morning upon Lifehacker’s column on 30 Cliches that one should avoid in speech and writing.  A lot of them are Britishisms (and, I suppose, Irishisms - Sam could speak to that more than I can), but it got me thinking about the things that rattle my cage, both grammar and...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Houston
  Well, I am back from Houston. The good news is that all of the crap did, indeed, fit nicely into my car (and Natalie’s car �" we divided it up amongst us). The conference was, overall, quite successful. We had lots of people attend our two presentations, and the vast majority at both...
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Published 2 weeks ago

12 of 12: November 2008
It’s time, once again, for 12 of 12! I was a big ball of stress yesterday (today being the 13th) because I don’t want to be nasty in order to get things accomplished, but sometimes it seems like the only way to get things done. And there were a lot of people at work who really tempted me …...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Give me Strength …
I’ve been really proud of my parents since they retired.  Considering they’ve never really expressed an interest in going anywhere when I was a kid, since they’ve retired they’ve been to Guam and Saipan (several times), they went to Beijing in April, and currently they’re on one of...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Links for 2008-11-03 [del.icio.us]
Fact Check: The myths that wouldn't go away on Yahoo! News Americans who tuned in to the last round of John McCain and Barack Obama campaign rallies will be voting Tuesday with some false notes ringing in their ears along with the hurrahs.
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Published 4 weeks ago