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  • Praying Dublin 🙏
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    Praying Dublin 🙏

    Ireland is known as the motherland for a very sizable of the Catholic migration to America. The Catholic Church in Ireland is going through a time of transition, and rightfully…

  • Eating Dublin 🍴
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    Eating Dublin 🍴

    While I did plenty of walking in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪, I also ate and drank plenty. The city, as any urban hub does, had a variety of options, including more…

  • Walking Dublin 🏃

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    Walking Dublin 🏃

    Last week, I was in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 for a meetup with the teams that support a variety of our plugins and services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like Jetpack, Akismet,…

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    Belize 🇧🇿

    In February, I traveled to Belize to meet up with members of the Jetpack development team at Automattic. We worked on various things—outlining the next few versions, building out some…

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    Connections at SXSW

    This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar…

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    Credit Confusion

    I have an old credit card. I got it in college and I almost never use it. Every blue moon, I’ll use it when making a purchase and the funds…

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    Shrove Tuesday Pancake Cake

    Today is Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday—whatever you call it, it is the last day before Lent begins. Traditionally, the day is celebrated in some way, often pancakes as…

  • That Time CNN Interviews You…
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    That Time CNN Interviews You…

    Don’t tweet @Velveeta about Super Bowl queso – Video – Technology Around Thanksgiving, Abby from CNN reached out wanting to do a story about my Internet-famous Twitter confusion and when…

  • Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease

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    Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease

    Baby develops disease after living with severe lack of nutrition because of almond milk. Source: Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease Packages of almond milk, in…

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    Catholic Church’s Hold on Schools at Issue in Changing Ireland

    Almost all state-funded primary schools — nearly 97 percent — are under church control, and Irish law allows them to consider religion the main factor in admissions. As a practical…