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We’ve been hearing the buzz about Max Patch ever since we bought our camping gear. This was the weekend we finally checked it out. Max Patch is a nice grassy bald along the Appalachian Trail a short way from Hot Springs, NC.
There were 2 vans full of people already at the parking area. However, once [...]

Do you really care what I had for breakfast?
Some people may say, “No, not really.” but if we lived in the same house you may be interested.
It’s the small talk that builds relationships. This is something that’s often missing from the social communication on the web.
I’ve been using Skype for some time now to talk [...]

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Lately I find myself swimming deeply in the pool of the social web. I spend most of the day in front of my Macbook. About the only exercise I get is the walk from the kitchen to the porch where I sit down some more and surf the net. Lately we’ve been visiting [...]

It’s funny how my life has evolved. In the late 90’s I threw out my computer and began a mad dash of hiking, kayaking and mountain biking. Then as the 2000’s came around, I gave up on the outdoors and succumbed to the latch of the internet.
Recently, Dawn and I have been trying to get [...]

Every time a holiday comes, we always promise to keep in contact with each other and we never do.
In the old days we were supposed to sit down on Sunday and write letters to all the people we knew to keep them updated with our daily lives. It’s odd to see how we communicate now [...]

Over at Tom Constant’s blog. I’ve found a post on one of his recent dreams. In the post, Tom Constant claims to have spoken to Lindsay Lohan about her middle name and birth date. Upon waking up, he recollected that her middle name began with a “D” and that she was born in July. [...]

Most of us in the tech world know full well what a phishing attack is, but I fear our family and friends still get caught by this easily. It’s very natural to click a link that says, “You need to login to dispute a claim“. It kind of sounds like “Hey, We’re trying to [...]

Today I had a bit of an epiphany on the effectiveness of individual sites like mine. Who really has time to bother with LanceWig.com? I’m watching more and more people get into social networking sites like Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Del.icio.us. Even Google is set to roll out new social networking features to their [...]

[ Arcadia ][ scavenge ] history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ \
> | sort -rn | head
106 ls
92 scp
46 cd
30 unrar
25 rm
18 sudo
17 mini
15 ss
11 vi
9 mate
mini
is an alias ssh to get into the home server
ss
is an alias for ‘./script/server’ to run ROR
mate
is the standard TextMate open command