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Archive | May, 2006

30 May 2006 3 Comments

David Nick Moves On

Those of you who have been around awhile might know about David Nick. David has been a long time guest-blogger here at Technosailor. I discovered David (or maybe he discovered me… I don’t remember) when he was solo-blogging over at Firewolf’s Lair (Can’t find the URL at the moment). He had given that [...]

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30 May 2006 4 Comments

Long Holiday Weekends and the Fallout that Ensues

It was nice to chill over the weekend. Long holiday weekend. The first of the summer. It’s so nice to be able to relax a little bit. I didn’t blog much over the weekend though. There was other stuff to do.
I always hate coming back to work after those long [...]

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29 May 2006 Comments Off

The Torch You Threw

Last November, on Veteran’s Day, I republished In Flanders Fields. Today is Memorial Day and we honor our fallen with this poem from Moina Michael who after reading Flanders Fields, wore a red poppy in remembrance for the rest of her life:
We Will Keep the Faith
Oh! You who sleep in Flanders’ fields,
Sleep sweet – [...]

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27 May 2006 84 Comments

Can A Web Programmer Make a Living Programming?

I’ve been writing code for the past 6 years. In certain areas (PHP, MySQL), I consider myself beyond proficient and more in line with “fluent”. Other areas I have no real experience: Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java.
For most of those 6 years, I’ve freelanced with the thought that if I could jusst generate [...]

26 May 2006 3 Comments

Readers using IE

I feel very bad that my latest theme update last month has caused a lot of issues with readers – particularly readers that have had Internet Explorer forced on them by corporate entities who obviously have no sense of security. Many readers have been emailing me (there have been 5 emails in the past [...]

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26 May 2006 1 Comment

Jack of All Blogs up for sale!

I knew this was coming from talking to Dave Krug, but it appears to be official now. He is selling JOAB at auction over at Sitepoint. The bidding started at $1200 but the Buy it Now is $3600.
So if you want to buy a high traffic blog for a good price, go buy it.
Pick [...]

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