The Post Office is one of those government entities that people love to hold up as models of bureaucracy, inefficiency and incompetence. Historically, I’ve been a contrarian about this, because except for one letter that arrived late about 20 years ago, I had never had a single problem with postal delivery.
Then I moved to Durham.
I [...]

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I haven’t done much of a what-the-heckamagooza I’m doing blog post lately, so here it is.
I ended 2008 not having met my absurdly lofty business goals for the year, on the other hand, I made about the same as in 2007 while spending more time on personal projects. I learned to build a website in [...]

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God is in the details. The devil’s in the details. Must be uncomfortable for them, sworn enemies, having to hang out together in the details like that all the time. Maybe all the nit-picking over the details keeps them occupied.
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Take cough suppressant/antihistamine; makes cough worse.
Drink warm milk; now I need to brush my teeth again.
Read a few pages of No Logo by Naomi Klein; merely makes me bored, not tired.
Clean off desk; dust makes me cough more.
Read various news reports about content management and social media; see #3.
Write a stupid blog post; still not [...]

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We’re down to one pfefferneuse and a handful of springerle in the cookie tin, and the last of the foil-wrapped chocolates have been dumped into the candy dish. The tree’s gotta come down this weekend, along with the Russian dolls (the next-to-smallest having disappeared in a time lost to memory), the Christmas stockings (the “Joy” [...]

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