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B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)
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20 Kids Wasn’t Enough
In the last few years, I keep it light around here. Mostly I write about blogging, WordPress, silly stuff about my kids. The heavy stuff is usually something about fatherhood and losing my own dad before I was a teenager. I haven’t written about politics since early college, as far as I can remember. And…
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Code is Poetry… and Warm!
The WordPress swag store added a couple of products yesterday. A Wapuu Christmas ornament and, my personal favorite, the “WordPress Ugly Holiday Sweatshirt“, which I don’t think is ugly at all. I’ve been eager to see this in production since Nick Hamze first teased it on his site in October and it is finally available…
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The Power of WordPress.com
I’m guessing they just wanted a quick and easy way to make a functional and beautiful website, which is kind of the whole idea of WordPress. Source: Amazon Silk on WP.com | Matt Mullenweg Via Twitter, I stumbled upon this 2011 post from Matt sharing that the Amazon Silk Browser’s blog is hosted, for free or…
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Why blogging still matters from The Boston Globe
Anyone could talk, even though not everyone was as skilled a rhetorician (or even grammarian) as the professionals populating the pages of professional newspapers. The imperfections of our posts, we hoped, would help legitimize a more human, less controlled form of public speech. But, we thought, the most important challenge blogging posed was to the…
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Swingset Takeover
We’re a force. And we like to swing. After I published this, I found Google animated one for us:
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Ups and Downs
All I’m going to say about last night and why there is no post today is confirm your Ngnix conf files are actually backed up somewhere. Not just that the directory they are in is set to be backed up, but actually backed up.