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The secret to de-stressing your holidays

You know how holidays are. The entire family coming together for fun and togetherness at predetermined times throughout the year. That’s the good part. The bad part is the pre-determined times thing. That means everyone across America is doing the same thing on the same day and that’s just not cool. You ever try to [...]

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31 days to be all (the blogger) you can be

Why do I let myself get talked into these things? That might be putting it strongly. It’s just that for years I’ve been seeing the 30 day challenge this and increase your traffic that and it just never seems like something I want to do. I mean, TV doesn’t watch itself, am I right? I [...]

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Dvorak, the lie told ’round the world

So here’s another of the interesting conversations I’ve had in with John. The background is this: John is left handed, uses a trackball (which sits on the left), types using the dvorak layout on a Kinesis keyboard.
aside: If you want to know what a Kinesis is like put a bunch of keyboard keys [...]

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Come…to the dark side

In September 2004 I was trapped in the Oakland airport and I came up with the idea for a blog. I say trapped because until the airplane shows up, ejects it’s passengers and leaves with you on it, is there any other way to describe it? I was also feeling vaguely trapped because it was [...]

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ZendCon Recap

After thinking about it for a few days I’ve revised my opinion somewhat about ZendCon. I’m still vaguely disappointed but after getting some sleep I’m not -quite- as depressed about it. Some things were good, some things were not so good and some things were just bad.
Cal Evans The man is a machine. I [...]

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Now this is progress, thank you wordpress and technorati automation!

Imagine my surprise when I’m cruising technorati this morning and find a link to the post I typed up in the airport last night. After reading a jillion blogs this week I decided that I wanted to join the crowd and installed some wordpress and typed up a quick post which quickly categorized how I [...]

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Zendcon ‘07: extremely disappointing or merely disappointing?

So the Sellingsource crew is on our way back from most of a week of Zendcon and I have to say, last year was better. Not just a little bit better either. This was like 4 days of boredom, incomplete, beginner-level talks and commercials for Zend products. When I hear about some of the good [...]

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