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The cat who ran into walls

I finally got to bed around 3AM this morning. Around 5AM the cat managed to find a plastic bag. He managed to get his head stuck inside the bag and ran wildly through the bedroom, bouncing off the walls like a pinball while the dogs tried to catch him. He finally crashed […]

Mice can do that?

Mice are nibblely little creatures. They chew anything that tastes good, like cheese or peanut butter, which is a very effective lure to use as bait for the trap. I would have never expected todays turn of events, though.
Dena’s car was having troubles running. Some days it would be fine, others it […]

One of my favorite applications for writing is WriteRoom. It’s a “full-screen, distraction-free writing environment”. It’s good for people like me who are easily distracted or compulsive multi-taskers. Unfortunately it’s only for OSX (Dark Room is the Windows equivalent). Since I won’t run Windows on my Thinkpad and Apple has blacklisted […]

Story Stats

I finally took some time out today and wrote myself a little Wordpress plugin today (screenshot) that lets me manage the stories I write. The first step of this is to track the story, word count, and if it’s been submitted, accepted, and/or published. It gives me a nice little running synopsis of […]

Happy New Year

It’s the end of the year and as we prepare to welcome in the new year I want to take a moment to reflect on the past year.
The majority of my time this year has been into building up my primary company, Traffic Engine, Inc.. Very similar to what I was doing after ditto.com […]

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