The following story at
Ish’s request.

It was only luck that woke me up a little before 4:00 on Friday morning, but it was a good opportunity to see if the automated newsletter we’d written for Congressional staffers had been sent successfully. So I waited until four, checked my email, saw the message had gone [...]

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Frequent commenter and friend GLS has started a new blog called
The Critical Edition where he plans to talk politics and religion. We don’t always agree, but I’ve always found GLS to be an insightful and careful thinker on these subjects. Given the intersections in subject matter between his and mine, you can certainly expect [...]

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Since moving to Blacksburg — before, actually — I’ve been talking about buying a bicycle. Blacksburg is a very bike-friendly area and I live close enough to work to make driving there seem foolish but walking there rather time-expensive. The bike route is even more direct than the road route.
What’s holding me back is [...]

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I just linked my Twitter and Facebook accounts so Twitter updates appear in Facebook and vice-versa. But the layout of the twitter stream leaves something to be desired. Here’s an example of what I see next to every one of my own “tweets”:

I think someone wasn’t paying enough attention.

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You know, I really intended to keep this design for a long time but it’s not working for me on a strategic level. Oh, it looks compelling. But things I think are very important are getting short shrift.
Here are some of the faults I see with the existing design:

Too much static space at [...]

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