• I rode to work

    I ran to work a week or two ago, but yesterday was the first time I biked to work. Overall, good experience. Glebe Road is a bit hectic and I certainly feel less safe on a pedla bike than the motorcycle, but I think I’ll continue doing it from time to time. The stats:Driving to work – 10 minutesParking at work – 3 minutesCost…

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  • Good Writing re: IT Hiring

    Specifically, people in the development environment, but some of the rules this guy lays out are applicable to other fields. I wish Anystream’s HR department would have understood this; I’d still be happily employed there had they not taken the “Fill the seat” mentality on so many hires. The High Cost of Low QualityA followup The author writes well and is just so on…

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  • Today It Ends – Race

    Caitlin and I just returned from out hotel after completing the Chicago Half Marathon. We have been training for the past three months for this and our performance really showed. We weren’t sure what our pace really was going to be since we hadn’t run the 15k race as training called for, but based on some recent runs we knew around an eight minute…

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  • Chicago

    We’re here! This morning was pretty fun; our flight had been cancelled, but I never saw the calls from last night so we were booked for a flight an hour BEFORE our original one. We arrived at the airport right as that took off so the next option was tickets on a flight three hours later and standby for a flight an hour later……

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  • Hello From My New Job

    That’s right boys and ghouls, Michael is alive and well at Group Logic. My commute has been reduced from 35-60 minutes to 5-10. Not bad, eh? I’m working on the ExtremeZ-IP software, which is basically a component that allows larger groups of people (corporations, schools, whatever) to have their Mac systems interface with PC filesystems in a happy, efficient, and error-free way. As such,…

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  • Why?

    One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen in my life.

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