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Post amnesia

Monday, September 10th, 2007 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Post amnesia

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I’m biking for The Hub On Wheels in two weeks and have been preparing for it. I’m only doing the 25-mile route as I have something to do that afternoon (XKCD meetup!), but I was curious if I am physically capable of biking the full 40-ish mile route. So just for kicks a few weeks ago I biked the entire Cape Cod rail trail, which is about 44 miles round-trip. I’m still amazed that I did it. I’ve never been an athletic person so when I shared this news with my family and friends, everybody was pretty impressed. So yes, I’m proud of this and wanted to share it with you all. (And here is the photographic journal of that day!) (more…)


Back from vacation, done with Digg

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Back from vacation, done with Digg

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Vacation recap
Hi everyone—sorry for the lack of updates, ever since I got back from my *wonderful* vacation in California, I’ve been swamped with work. Same ol’ story, eh? (more…)


Signs of life

Monday, June 4th, 2007 Tags: , , , ,

Signs of life

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I did a little tweaking to the WP interface over the weekend but not nearly as much as I’d wanted. Trying to reverse engineer someone else’s code is a bit tricker than I remembered! Thankfully, the creators of the base theme I’m using now were very meticulous about keeping nomenclature clear and used plenty of documentation — thank you guys! For a coding n00blette like me, all that documentation really helps.
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