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It’s been ages (in blogging terms anyway) since writing anything here. Several reasons: didn’t have much to say, moved into a new house, summer is short enough in Seattle without spending it inside, etc. But the big reason is that the blog had just started to feel cluttered and old. The theme [...]

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A few months ago I somehow overcame my aversion to running and started jogging a few times a week. Since I listen to music pretty much constantly during the day while working I’m not that interested in listening to more music while running so I’ve taken to listening to theology lectures/discussions while running. It works [...]

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I switched on the radio on my way to pick up my wife from work yesterday. And I half-listened to a report of a community in Nevada protesting a possible test conducted by the The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (funded by the US Department of Defense). It was a good story—quite interesting and informative. But [...]

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Via verbum ipsum I came across this word cloud generator and thought it was geeky and cool enough to warrant a post. My favorite part is the small “yeah” in the bottom middle. Who knew our Californian accent came through so strong? That “bush” was so big was a bit of a mystery at [...]

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In just a couple weeks Nance and I will be heading off to Europe for three weeks. Being a geek I decided to see if I could find a google maps implementation which would allow me to plot our trip on a map. I found Gmaps Pedometer which allows you to plot [...]

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A good high scool friend, anthony , asked what would be the best way to get his feet wet in the web programming arena. I’ve been asked a couple times, so here’s my little “intro” guide:

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I have been spared power point fluff for the most part during my life. In college I only had a few teachers who used it (and it was mildly helpful in those classes since the teacher talked a mile a minute). However, having experienced several corporate power point presentations now, I can understand [...]

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Gerg and I were banging our heads one day because our application had become extremely slow. We had added a bunch of test data (100,000+ rows) and now our list page was taking 30 seconds to load. So we began trying to re-formulate our query in all the possible ways to find out [...]

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