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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
I spent Thursday and Friday in DC at my company's annual anniversary event - we had loads of fun, as you might be able to tell from these pics. After getting home around 2am on Saturday morning, I crashed... and when I woke up on Saturday, I discovered that the ...
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
The National Book Awards were presented last night - I haven't read many of the finalists this year (and none of the winners), but I do want to point out Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese. It's the first graphic novel ever to make it that far, and it's fantastic ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
I've wanted to do NaNoWriMo (the site's been majorly lagging since Nov 1st) for a couple of years now, but something always seems to stand in the way. This year is no exception, as I'm busy 3 nights out of the week and have pretty-well-booked weekends for the whole month. ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
Can I just say that PRINTED BLUE TEXT is one of the most distracting things ever in a book? I'm reading something now that I'd like if I could keep from being disturbed by the color of the text every couple of minutes. Sheesh. It's not even a book you'd ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2004
Of the many blogs I read on a daily basis (thank you, RSS aggregators of the world!), there are a few that I enjoy above and beyond the rest. Posts in these blogs may be infrequent (ahem, Zeldman) or outside my area of expertise, but there's just something about the ...
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