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Long story short, the blog network 9Rules, of which this site is a part, has been sold to Splashpress Media. You may or may not know who they are. Frankly, I’d never heard of them before the announcement, but learned quickly that another member of their network is Performancing, the authors of the very awesome [...]

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You know, I thought about publishing a post about a game with Fark tags and headlines, but I simply couldn’t bring myself to post it. Why? Because of something I think about too often, as I’m sure has anyone who’s ever considered their blog to be more than simply a sounding board. I’m talking about [...]

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Just a couple of notes for you who read this. In short, RSS feeds now feature full blog posts instead of snippets; those of you visiting the site can now see a few recommended posts from across the web, thanks to a Google Reader widget on the sidebar, and 9Rules Round 6 starts May 7 [...]

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Just a short note: the latest version of 9Rules.com, Ali2, has just been released. If you’ve been to 9R recently, then awesome, you know what’s going on. Stop on by. If you haven’t been to 9R, take some time to check it out, as it’s one of the most informative, helpful, and surprisingly useful comunities [...]

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I write. A lot. Problem is, a good chunk of it — three quarters, or more, I would venture to say — is total crap. Well, not total, but it certainly isn’t great. In fact, most of it isn’t even good. Nevertheless, I still write. A lot. If you’ve been reading for a while you [...]

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Just a heads up, I’ve just published an article for a British site, Calling America, titled A Land Not Soon Forgotten. (The title was a play on the title of the book Land Remembered, which traces the story of the fictional MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.) Here’s their synopsis of the story: [...]

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In college, we called the week right before finals “dead week.” During this week there were no parties, no activities, no outside BBQ’s… Just a bunch of students huddled up in Cooper Hall or in the library, or in the practice rooms, or in the labs and studios, trying to cram a semester’s worth of [...]

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All my life I’ve tried to create revelry and camaraderie by putting together contests where people could participate and compete in. I’ve seen others do this and have amazing success at it. But I… well… queue the violin:

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About a week and a half ago I put up a short post about the creation of the newest Gnorb.NET theme. Almost two weeks and two tons of advice later the theme is now ready for use in production. In short, here’s the theme, enjoy. However, if you really want to know more about why [...]

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In the past month or so I’ve been with 9Rules a number of rather important events affecting myself, Gnorb.NET, and 9Rules have occurred which you may actually be interested in. (Seriously, these are pretty exciting news, at least for me.) These involve a book I’m collaborating on, cool changes in the 9Rules community site, and [...]

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