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WordPress 2.5

March 29, 2008
Today, Matt Mullenweg announced on the WordPress.org blog that the latest and greatest version of WordPress is now available for download. The new Happy Cog-designed user interface is an amazing improvement—WordPress has always been sophisticated software, but has never until now had a serious user interface to match. Along with it we’re bringing you [...]
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Saving Siegelman

February 25, 2008

Last Night, 60 Minutes aired its repeatedly-delayed report on the federal prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. I highly suggest watching the segment if you’re interested in Alabama politics—or if you’re interested in knowing more about the Bush administration’s platform of trickle-down corruption.
A few (unbelievable) points mentioned in the story, and a few I [...]

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Oprah fans upset about Obama endorsement

January 19, 2008

From The Sunday Times: Women turn on ‘traitor’ Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama
In the original post, a reader called austaz68 said she “cannot believe that women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah’s backing of Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a [...]

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Please Make Up Your Mind

December 12, 2006

You will find below a snippet taken from four emails, all received within a span of 60 seconds, all from BestBuy.com regarding a single item in a single order:

You can’t beat that.

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10:53pm Madness

November 24, 2006

While watching the news tonight, I asked my mom if she wanted to go down to the outlet center in Foley for the midnight madness sale.
I was totally kidding, but when I did, she gave me a look that said “please! you’re not man enough for a midnight madness sale.” And because I’m nothing [...]

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Now with Twice the “Mattic”

November 17, 2006

On Monday, I’ll begin the next stage in my professional life by joining the amazingly talented team at Automattic. Surprise! I first “met” Matt Mullenweg (I use quotes because we’ve only talked online and over the phone, so far anyway) about a year ago, after doing a bit of freelance design work for TextDrive. My [...]

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Deal

November 12, 2006

Although I describe myself as an agnostic, I can’t help but search for order in life. Maybe it’s illogical to feel ambivilant about about a higher power while at the same time deeming some things as “just not meant to be.” More often than not, though, that’s how I operate.
While in Biloxi last weekend, I [...]

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In Print

November 4, 2006

Even though the book will be read by thousands but the site will be viewed by millions, there’s still something inestimably cool about seeing your design work in Barnes and Noble.

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Sick Days

November 3, 2006

I’ve been pretty cooped up this week with a bad cold, but it didn’t keep me from at least accomplishing a few things this week.
I’m thinking I need to calibrate my sport kit. According to it, on Monday I walked 1.47mi in 30 minutes, at an average pace of 20’17”. I missed Wednesday because of [...]

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Slack

October 30, 2006

Well, I got a little sidetracked last week but I’m back in the saddle today. The first week working out without my trainer was tough. I managed to do a full workout twice last week, and even upped the weight on a few things. So that felt good. I really dropped the ball on the [...]

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