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.
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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”:

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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:

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Perhaps two of them in the same day.

On my drive home this morning I almost hit a skateboarder who was riding his board in the street. He was riding near the curb with traffic. A Blacksburg Transit bus had to swing way out to keep from hitting him, as did I. He made [...] Read more »

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Happy New Year, everyone! I don’t like to make new year’s resolutions or make too many new year plans because almost every year I’ve ended up in a place much different from the one I anticipated at the start. I’ve pretty much stopped anticipating. Take 2007, for example: we were reasonably certain we’d have a [...] Read more »

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