Okay, let’s be honest here. Not every day is necessarily spent being productive. Today, for example, I’ve spent a significant chunk of my time doing something which was fun, but not necessarily describable as work. I wrote an alternate lyrics version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "I am the very model of a modern Major-General", from Pirates of Penzance. Don’t know it? Shame on you. Pirates of Penzance Page Wikipedia: The Pirates of Penzance Cast Recording from Amazon
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A Flower in Melk, Austria
This site is significantly lacking in color. Thus, I’m going to provide an occasional image to brighten things up. Taken with a Canon Powershot A95
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I don’t think this service is likely to quite catch on, but I certainly found it interesting – here’s a map of my parent’s house using Google Maps and ASCII graphics!
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I’m in the middle of a period without home internet access of unknown length (due to some complicated circumstances I’ll avoid going into…). This is the first significant period of time I’ve spent without internet access since roughly the year 2000 – and it’s made me really think about how different life (specifically, MY life) is with the addition of this technology. Before the internet, I went to libraries much more frequently. I made phone calls more frequently. I used […]
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What do house guests and SEO have in common? Well, they both require more time than you think they will… At the moment, I’m in the midst of a three-week period of home visitations – and when people have flown 4,000 miles to visit, you naturally spend a good chunk of time with them. As a result, my blogging has taken a slight fall in frequency.
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