Category Archives: Nerdery

And… We’re Back

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Patrick

Happy to be back after a few days of interwebish darkness. Somebody was repeatedly pinging our site’s RSS(aka XML) feed file, somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-thousand times in a month, and used up all our site’s allotted bandwidth. Bandwidth … Continue reading →

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Chess is Hard, Work is Good

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Patrick

I’ve survived my fourth week of work at my new job, and I’m happy to say that it’s good stuff. I’m learning all sorts of moderately-cool things about the newspaper biz, and the website work is challenging and generally interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Nerdery | 1 Comment

Training Day

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Patrick

Part of starting any new job is knowing somewhere between nothing and next-to-nothing about the company’s processes and tools. Despite my moderate-to-competent web-designer skill-set, you just can’t completely prepare yourself for the nuances of new-jobbyness. To remedy this, my new … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Nerdery | 2 Comments

Nerdery at Home

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Patrick

Kate jetted up the coast today, leaving me and the furry ones down here for a few days before I fly up on Friday night. Me starting a new job means slightly compacted travel plans. Tonight consisted of four activities, … Continue reading →

Posted in Homeownership, Nerdery | 3 Comments

A Time of Change

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Patrick

Last Thursday I gave the old two weeks notice to my current employer. It was, after four and a half years, time for a change. It’s also the last major step in our movin’ south epic adventure (that step being … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Nerdery, NewEngland | 8 Comments

Quick Notes from North Carolina

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Patrick

Working for a livingKate’s been working at 5am every day this week. That is early. I’m glad she has this weekend off. Dual MonitorsIf you’re using a desktop for anything other then surfin the web or emailing, there simply isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, Homeownership, Nerdery | 5 Comments

Thoughts on the Redesign

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Patrick

I realized I haven’t posted in a while. Over the weekend Kate and I worked on redesigning Rockland-Ave, which was looooonnnnnnngg overdue. I think Dennis had redesigned a dozen times since the last time we cleaned things up around here. … Continue reading →

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