Tag: Wright
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On Standards and Switching from Gmail to FastMail.FM
Read moreThis summer, I finally followed through on a couple of experiments I’ve had nagging at the back of my head for a while: Seeing if I can tolerably get by on standard IMAP email hosting after 9 years on Gmail, just to know if it’s a viable alternative in some kind of hypothetical doomsday scenario […]
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My #WP10 Story
Read moreWordPress is 10 years old today. I started making websites a few years earlier, but WordPress did something for me that all the HTML framesets, <table>-based layouts, and animated GIFs of the 1990s didn’t: it helped me find my voice. I encountered blogging in high school. This was when LiveJournal and Xanga were hot, and many […]
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Photos: Mickey Hart Band, Winter 2013
Read moreI must admit having low expectations initially, but in the last year, I’ve now been to five Mickey Hart Band shows. Live music has been a big part of my life forever, but it’s rare that a current band excites me this much. This week, I went to two MHB shows at the Fox Theatre […]
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About That Greener Grass on the Other Side…
Read more“The grass is always greener on the other side.” We use this phrase like a knee-jerk reaction. I think this casual overuse says something about how we approach our challenges – or rather, how we don’t approach them. We start by finding ourselves looking over the fence, and noticing how much nicer things seem to be […]
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Read moreAfter months of putting up with drab white walls at my new Denver apartment, I finally sucked it up and went to a crafts store. The reward: that store was having a giant clearance sale at the time, so I bought up a bunch of frames for my concert posters and photography from Spain and […]
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