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Why We Love Baseball
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How Do Search Ads Run the World?
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My First Mac
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Joe Mauer, First Ballot
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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Redirect Pizza
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This work week has flown....
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Working with Mild Illness
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Demon Copperhead
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-34°F Windchill, Don't Care
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Together, Musically
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Dusted Popcorn
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Toe Reset
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Keychron Makes Typing Lovely
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2023 App Defaults
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Read: Born Standing Up
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Cable Management for My Standing Desk
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Fresh-Installing That Old Mac
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John Cleese Is Actually Alive
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RubyMine So Far
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Classic Albums, Unlistened
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Export PDF Files Out of Evernote
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Peter Gabriel's New Music Tour
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Remember the Photo Blog
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Fast Car
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City Pop
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Twins Walk-off and More
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Where Have I Been?
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Gratitude Day
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Declaring Tab Bankruptcy
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Helpful People
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Rails Form Redirect Not Rendering HTML
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Rails System Tests with Safari
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How To Teach Your Customers
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Why Does My Apple TV Suck?
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CDs Like Baseball Cards
2022
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Silly Customer Service
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Before They Were Huge
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They Might Be Giants Flood Tour
Aug 10
Vin Scully
Aug 3
Lutz
Aug 2
Shatner in Space
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Shared Photo Library
May 29
Anti-Leadership
May 23
Markdown to HTML on macOS
May 19
Two Newsletters
May 16
Why I Went HTML Only
May 13
HTML Only
May 12
My Basic Salad Dressing
Apr 30
Strong Songs
Apr 15
Video Gaming vs Videos of Gaming
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Anti-Joy in Sports Commentating
Mar 23
Auto-generate sitemap.xml with Rails on Render.com
Mar 10
Watching a Musical Six Times
Mar 7
Are Straight A's Worth It?
Mar 4
View from My Doom Scroll
Mar 3
Using a Kinesis Foot Pedal to Shift Modify a Mac Keyboard
Mar 1
Trying Phoenix and Elixir
Feb 25
Magazines at Your Library
Feb 24
Numbr
Feb 21
Everyone's a Starter
Feb 17
log.txt
Feb 4
Google Programming in 2022
Jan 26
Tab Groups in Safari
Jan 20
ActiveSupport Image Storage and Processing at Render.com
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Writing Is a Muscle
Jan 15
Now Blogging at Micro.blog
Jan 15
Beginner's Mind Micro.blog
Jan 10
Movie Art
Jan 6
Discomfiture of Thought
Jan 3
Announcing Owatonna Even/Odd Parking
2021
Dec 20
Dark Mode Colors with CSS Variables
2020
Mar 24
So Now You're Working From Home
2015
Mar 26
Neil Gaiman's "Locks"
Mar 8
Politeness, Kindness
2014
Mar 1
The End Is the Beginning
Feb 9
Poodr
2013
Dec 14
Theater
Dec 12
Sparkly Dollar
Jan 28
Find Bugs Once and the Joy of Bug Fixing
2012
May 1
High Fidelity
Apr 24
Improvise
Apr 19
Mise en Place
Apr 12
Craftsmen
Feb 9
Quick Alert
Feb 4
Years On
Jan 23
Books Read 2011
Jan 7
Drawing Dots
2011
Dec 14
User Groups
Jun 17
Feynman
May 4
Habit
Apr 8
30 Days of Exercise
Mar 25
Dive Deep
Mar 8
Sxsw 2011
Feb 14
Make It Easy
Jan 23
Nesting in Code
Jan 16
A Week Off the Grid
Jan 9
Books Read 2010
2010
Sep 7
Don't Let Failures Deter You
Aug 21
In the Sixth Year
Aug 12
Mac Bluetooth Not Available After Power Outage
Apr 1
The Twins Secret Stadium Weapon
Feb 28
Ruby Whenever and Day of Month Crontab Syntax
Feb 23
Setting Up Watchr and Rails
Feb 17
Co-Op Capistrano Deployment Script
2009
Dec 31
Books Read 2009
Sep 2
JavaScript Optional Parameter Hash With Default Values
Aug 28
Crush It
Aug 21
Five Years Old
Jul 28
Leaving the Corporate Nest (Fin)
Jul 23
Security of Dreams
Jul 14
So You're Motivated by a Tech Conference. Now What?
Jul 7
Announcing Hai to the Ku: Twitter, Haiku and You
Jun 30
Security of Ignorance
Mar 23
Security of Loyalty
Jan 19
Rails Date Calculations Could Stand Some Timezone Love
Jan 16
Thawing the Brain
Jan 7
Hardware and Software
2008
Dec 22
Educating Software Developers
Nov 11
Announcing Time Warp Ruby Gem
Nov 3
Filter Unwanted Tweets From Your Twitter Stream
Oct 24
25+ Celebrity Twitter Users and Their Follow Costs
Oct 16
Fading Flash Message
Oct 13
Announcing Follow Cost
Oct 11
Barry Hess, a Story of Mistaken Identity
Oct 9
Security of Stuff
Oct 3
Announcing Harvest Co-Op
Sep 25
Security of Group Health Insurance
Sep 24
I Love You, Grandma
Sep 17
Security of Income
Sep 15
Security of Retirement
Sep 11
Security of Employment
Sep 10
Leaving the Corporate Nest
Aug 29
Windy City Rails
Aug 21
Blogiversaire
Aug 1
Distributed Team Horseplay
Jul 22
Post Redirect Get in Rails
Jul 15
Fixing Slow Rake on Leopard
Jun 30
Open_id_authentication Plugin and Remember Me
Jun 1
Presentation: An Audience Perspective
May 28
RailsConf '08
May 7
Ventorium: My Lark of a Project
May 5
MinneBar 2008 and Distributed Teamwork
Apr 27
Five Rails Tips
Apr 22
Virtual Teamwork or You Can Go Home Again
Apr 13
Kauffman Stadium, Day 2
Apr 12
Cold Kauffman Stadium
Mar 31
A Rails Way to Track Additional Schema Info
Mar 29
ActiveResource HTTP Basic Auth With Email Address
Mar 3
HOWTO Commit an Incremental Rails Upgrade to SVN
Feb 28
Move Server Configuration Files Into Your Repository
Feb 23
Twitter Has Rewrite Problems
Feb 19
Calling MailBuild AddWithCustomFields With Ruby
Feb 10
Amazon Fixes Subscribe and Save
Feb 7
One Year on the Lam From the Expected
Jan 27
Awake, Laptop, Awake
Jan 21
Meanwhile, Apple Says "Nevermind"
Jan 17
SuperDuper! Is My Savior
Jan 14
Amazon, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Jan 7
Two Macs? No Problem!
Jan 2
Integrating Rails and WordPress
2007
Dec 26
Assert_select Selectors Using Regular Expressions
Nov 28
Rails Before_destroy Gotcha
Nov 23
GTD Quarterly Financial Temperature Checklist
Nov 12
A Rails Way to Popup Secondary Windows
Oct 29
World Clock Project
Oct 22
Ruby Console Spacebar Problems
Oct 15
When Single-Table Inheritance Attacks
Oct 8
Has_many_polymorphs and Checkboxes
Oct 4
Rails Migration Max Key Length Error in MySQL
Oct 1
A Model Diagram for Your Rails Application
Sep 26
Disabling Markdown in Your WordPress Comments
Sep 19
My Foray Into Has_many_polymorphs
Sep 12
Rails Auto Select Text Field Tag
Sep 5
TextMate Find in Project Slow in Rails
Aug 29
Adding a Mongrel Instance to a Slicehost Rails App
Aug 27
Make Sure to Properly Scope Your Ruby Mixins
Aug 21
Apple Ain't All That All the Time
Aug 21
L'anniversaire
Aug 20
Ignoring English Articles With Regular Expressions
Aug 19
Lakefront Property
Aug 15
Syntax Highlighting With WordPress and Markdown
Aug 12
Time Warp for Rails Testing
Aug 8
John Carmack on Constraints
Aug 6
Rails Maintenance Page With Images and Styles
Aug 2
My Dad's First Twins Game
Aug 1
Rolling Your Rails Logs With Logrotate
Jul 30
Don't Forget the Return Value on Rails Callbacks
Jul 25
Stubbing Objects in Radiant
Jul 18
Redirecting a Subdomain to a URL at Slicehost
Jul 16
Transferring Your "Cached" WordPress Blog
Jul 11
Automatically Pull Photos Off Your Flash Card With Ruby
Jun 27
Exporting Your Netflix Queue With Ruby
Jun 25
More TextMate Dates for Your WordPress Blog
Jun 19
Changing Tabs in Safari
Jun 16
Popup a New Gmail Compose Window
Jun 7
Adding Lightbox to FlickrMate
May 30
Installing HAML Bundle for TextMate
May 26
When Rake Fails but Tests Succeed
May 3
Radiant Extension Gotcha
May 2
Taking Notes and Checking Them Twice
Apr 30
Specifying Date When Blogging From TextMate to WordPress
Apr 27
Change Default Text Editor on OS X
Apr 27
Loading Up Windows Shares Upon OS X Login
Apr 25
Startup Camp Minnesota
Apr 24
Minnebar and David Heinemeier Hansson
Apr 23
Startup School and Minnesota Converge
Apr 6
Why Not Internationalize?
Apr 4
The Kid in Russian
Apr 1
OS X and Web Browsing
Mar 29
Startup School 2007
Mar 22
Of Scrawlers and Startup School
Mar 9
Clear Rails Sessions on Dreamhost
Mar 9
Scrawlers Has Launched
Mar 8
TextMate, Blogging, Wordpress, and Dreamhost
Mar 7
Blog Simplified
Feb 26
Firefox Nested Div Problem
Feb 24
Detect Alphanumeric in Ruby via Regular Expressions
Feb 22
Two Weeks of Web Developing
Feb 20
Missing Log Messages in Ruby on Rails
Feb 16
Subversion GUI on OS X
Feb 15
Notes on a Book - Don't Make Me Think
Feb 13
So What Is My Goal?
Feb 9
Anchor Tag and Element ID Standards
Feb 7
Full Steam Ahead
Feb 6
Notes on a Book - the Long Tail
Jan 25
Empowerment
Jan 23
Notes on a Talk - Guy Kawasaki
Jan 22
Notes on a Book - the Elements of Style
Jan 19
My Eyes! My Eyes!
Jan 19
My Poor Sleeping Body
Jan 17
Wrestling With Your Personal Information
Jan 16
MacBook Purchased
Jan 15
Personal Information Management
2006
Dec 21
Lessons Learned
Dec 18
Notes on a Book - Purple Cow
Dec 15
Mac & Me - Dual Monitors
Nov 30
Notes on a Book - the Big Red Fez
Nov 22
What Have You Been Doing?
Oct 25
Smidgen
Oct 16
Lost in Episodic Entertainment
Oct 8
Acting and Directing
Sep 22
A Weird Thing Popped Into My Head
Sep 8
Get an Emergency Fund
Aug 30
Sea Change
Aug 23
Interruptions
Aug 15
Blogging Frequency
Aug 4
Badlands
Jul 27
You Down With DMV?
Jul 20
Biking and Carrying
Jul 13
Where to Go
Jul 2
The New World
Jun 17
Lacy
Jun 12
Stupid Fees
Jun 9
Estate Tax
Jun 1
Gardenfire Watch
May 29
A Long Weekend in Milwaukee
May 25
The Bike Decision Approaches
May 25
What Does the "Da Vinci" Popularity Tell Us?
May 23
Parking at the New Twins Stadium
May 16
I Need a Bike
May 12
Proper Dinner Conversation
May 11
I'm Tired of the RIAA's Bitching
May 10
Warner Playing in Torrents
May 3
ManBearPig
Apr 28
Tasteless
Apr 25
In Lieu of a Post
Apr 21
Totten's Road Trip to Iraq
Apr 19
Jason Mewes's Drug Addiction Journey
Apr 2
What a Weekend
Mar 23
Twins vs Phillies, March 14, 2006
Mar 21
Twins vs Tigers, March 11, 2006
Mar 19
Florida Trip
Mar 9
Hooray for Florida
Mar 6
Good Night, and Good Luck, Puck
Mar 6
The Time Sink Server
Mar 3
Moral Control
Mar 1
Transporter
Feb 27
Hair Bands
Feb 22
Hollywood: Liberal or Capitalistic?
Feb 21
American Gods
Feb 14
Milwaukee
Feb 13
Why Ring Tones
Feb 9
Tax Season '06
Feb 3
Augie Band
Jan 31
In the Spirit of an Update
Jan 25
What Do You Love to Do?
Jan 23
Weekend Update
Jan 19
Video Content Delivery
Jan 18
Re-Education of a Computer Scientist
Jan 16
Weekend Notes
Jan 5
Cash Investments
2005
Dec 27
Webmail
Dec 22
The Story of Wheat
Dec 20
Ubuntu Installed
Dec 18
Computing Hell
Dec 17
It's About the Content, Baby
Nov 28
Fall '05 Car Polish
Nov 23
Santa Worship
Nov 18
Vegas Vacation
Nov 8
On to the Television
Nov 7
A New Home Theater Option
Nov 2
Netflix's Sweet Class Action Boondoggle
Nov 1
Home Theater Wishy-Washyness
Oct 21
Scarlet Fever
Oct 12
iPod Video
Oct 12
Vertigo
Sep 30
Dragline
Sep 26
Weddings
Sep 12
God Is in the Details
Sep 8
Our American Public
Sep 6
Katrina
Sep 1
You Know You're a Nerd When...
Aug 29
Champion
Aug 25
Suv
Aug 23
The Self-Focused Life
Aug 22
L'anniversaire
Aug 17
Twins Memories
Aug 13
Terroristic Threats
Aug 11
'Double Duty' Radcliffe Dies at 103
Jul 22
How We Would Fight China
Jul 16
Bits From Slouching Toward Fargo
Jun 28
Freedom of (All) Speech
Jun 25
The College World Series 2005
Jun 24
The Irony of "Support Our Troops"
Jun 19
Balls Out - Dock Ellis
Jun 16
Comedian for Senator? Don't Laugh
May 27
A Prequel to the Phantom Menace?
May 24
Hibbing High School
May 23
Bloomberg's Billionaire Boondoggle
May 20
Star Wars III
May 18
Hanger Bumps
May 16
Nascar
May 13
Sid Hartman: Twins Stadium Would Pay Off
May 11
Stadium, F*** Yeah!
May 11
TV Now
May 8
Support
May 6
IDiots
May 2
Chicago
Apr 25
A Twins Stadium Is Inevitable, Right?
Apr 21
Another Drive Home
Apr 19
The Drive Home
Mar 28
Cartime for Bjhess
Mar 21
How John McCain Reformed
Mar 12
Bankruptcy Bill
Mar 11
Wild Goose Chase
Mar 3
The Village
Mar 1
Most Hated Buzzword
Feb 28
Tucker
Feb 17
Evolution 101
Feb 9
Speaking of Jon Stewart
Feb 1
The Other Side of Secondhand Smoke Science
Jan 30
The Quiet American
Jan 24
89.3 the Current
Jan 24
Small Time
Jan 23
Billions Served: Norman Borlaug
Jan 22
The Ghost of Tiananmen
Jan 21
Collateral
Jan 17
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Jan 13
Mac Mini Launches
Jan 9
Man on Fire
Jan 7
Congress Formally OKs Bush Election
Jan 6
William Shatner - Has Been
Jan 5
Iraq Casualties
2004
Dec 31
Published
Dec 27
Four Quartets
Dec 20
The Full Maria
Dec 18
Lawrence
Dec 17
Pendulums
Dec 15
This Week in Movies
Dec 9
Wyoming and Me
Dec 6
Sleep Apnea II
Dec 3
Sleep Apnea
Nov 16
Before Sunset
Nov 15
Notre Dame
Oct 30
Electile Dysfunction
Oct 29
The Whole Country Is Texas
Oct 19
Last Day of Class
Oct 18
Update on Me
Oct 13
Has Bush Failed in Iraq?
Oct 12
Which Side Are You On?
Oct 7
Second Guessing the Second Guessing
Oct 3
Bowling
Sep 30
Better Than Two in the Bush
Sep 29
Do-Si-Do
Sep 27
The Fog of War(s)
Sep 19
Lost in Translation
Sep 14
Santana
Aug 31
The Wiener
Aug 30
What Am I Watching This Summer?
Aug 27
Sick
Aug 25
Slow Pitch Softball - a Justification
Aug 24
Presidential Politics
Aug 23
CableTV
Aug 23
You've Been Drafted
Aug 22
The SCFF Is Rolling to a Finish
Aug 21
Oh Boy, This Could Be a Long Road
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