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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I want to emphasize this point: I was NOT looking for a job. Heck, I’m scheduled to speak at an IABC meeting this month about the joys of not having a job.
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone saying “we have a job opening, here’s the description, are you open to [...]

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Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

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If you go to the blog The Durham Bullpen, the Snow Building is the tall one on the left with the fire escape down the side. My studio is the top right window. I look out over the Lucky Strike towers at American Tobacco.
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Since most of my working life is spent with my nose in a computer, I wasn’t in much of a blogging mood this vacation (besides, the computer was usually occupied by you-know-who). I took lots of photos, though, and will try to post a few in the coming days. But here’s the cheat sheet for [...]

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