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My name is Wes, this is my blog.

Archive for March, 2008

OSO Bikes

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

  I’ve been riding bikes as a regular commuter for over 6 months now. Through the rain, through the sun, along the trail and over the road I’m on my bike. I’ve got two of them, one is a hand-me-down Cannondale from my uncle that is quite comfortable. I had the mountain bike tires taken [...]

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Easter And Everything After

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Yes, the title of this post is a reference to Counting Crows. Why? I dunno. Seemed to work. Anyway, Easter was fun. Did you have a good one? The girl and I got all gussied up and went to brunch with my family at the appropriately named Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. It was a beautiful spring [...]

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Dan Carlin, You Are The Man

Friday, March 21st, 2008

I’ve been a long time subscriber to Dan Carlin’s podcasts because they are entertaining, engaging and Dan’s just plain good at them. It doesn’t hurt that I’m a history buff, stay up late and commute a lot (read: my iPod or computer is with me 24 hours a day). To that end, I encourage anyone [...]

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Juicycampus.com: Lesson in suck

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

So I’m on the internet. A lot. I’ve come to accept this, as have people who are close to me. Hell, I geek out on the I’net all the time. It is what I do, both at work and at home. As such, I’m familiar with websites. I’m familiar with code. I’m familiar with traffic [...]

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Home Mortgage Crisis Hits Urban Dictionary

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Of course, I can’t be surprised to see a larger national problem showing up on the site because urbandictionary.com is a reactive, open-to-all database of words. It follows that folks would put something from their daily lives into this site. There’s something about the specificity of this definition that I really like, though. Jingle mail is the package containing [...]

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