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I love this portrait my sister is doing of my niece. She says it’s a work-in-progress, though I’m in favor of her keeping it in its current state.

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I’m not sure exactly why I’ve waited a month to write about Boston. Perhaps it was my almost complete lack of photo-taking. More likely, it’s the feeling that I had finally completed a major undertaking, which leaves me exhausted and satisfied for about a week, then the elation turns into nervousness as I realize ( Read more... )

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I encourage everyone I work with to keep all of their development code in a source repository, even one-off dead-end prototype code they’re not going to check back into a main development tree. If you know you’re going to do destabilizing work, of course you’ll create a sandbox branch from the development branch and ( Read more... )

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I have my first Boston Marathon on April 21, and I’m not even remotely ready. I take some comfort in knowing Boston is more a reward than another proving ground, but I still want to give it a tough effort and I’m simply not ready. I ran my marathon PR almost completely solo at Myrtle Beach, and there are thousands of ( Read more... )

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I don’t have major running plans solidified for the rest of this year, other than the obvious highlight that is my first Boston Marathon on April 21. I am looking forward to running a number of half marathons this year, and was expecting to run the Corporate Cup again but will miss it due to a snowboarding trip. ( Read more... )

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Late last week Mike Smith pointed me toward a Sunday morning Crowders Mountain meet-up on the Native Trail Gods list, organized by Tim Long. I’m always a sucker for runs at Crowders, and the thought of a group run on my favorite local trail was too much to resist. Nevermind the soreness I felt through the week after ( Read more... )

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We had a nice crew going to Myrtle Beach this year. The two Pauls were shooting to push Dougherty below his 3:16 needed for Boston, Susi was pacing Jeri in her first race back from her ankle injury, and I was finally trying to break 3 hours.

Jeri and Susi ran a comfortable half, Jeri’s injury thankfully a thing of the ( Read more... )

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I had a wonderful time at the Uwharrie Mountain Run last weekend. The race is very well organized, with good coordination at the start and finish and great support along the course. Very highly recommended.


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One of my intentions for 2008 was to keep a more diligent log of my exercise. So far, I’m succeeding, and it’s already helping. I suspect most readers of this don’t much care about the daily details of training, so I’ve moved the updates to pages that won’t spill over into the blog. January is here, February here. ( Read more... )

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This week has been a devastating one for AAPL stock, but undaunted by financial realities I am now awaiting the arrival of a new Mac Pro workstation. Seems like forever ago I began my wait for this hardware refresh so I could replace my aging PowerBook 17. Minorly awesome were upgrade prices for Photoshop and Logic ( Read more... )