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A Distributed Domain of One's Own

The summer has been hot but quiet in Fredericksburg and I've had a lot of fun over the past few weeks working with Martha Burtis to get our new server up and running with the host of software we plan to use to roll out the Domain of

Redefining Reclaim Efforts

Over the past 2 years I've watched and later participated in the rhetoric of "reclaiming our digital identities in the web spaces we inhabit. Reclaim means a lot of things to a lot of people. At the end of last year I decided I wanted to start

To The Cloud!

I've had a lot of fun over the past few weeks playing more and more with cloud services and seeing how they can extend the functionality you normally get with a shared hosting plan. I blogged about my adventures setting up Amazon Cloudfront as a CDN (Content Delivery

Exploring GitHub

I have to confess I've been vaguely following the GitHub scene for awhile now but always considered it a place for hardcore programmers. I had heard that people were using it for other interesting things, most recently last year when App Dot Net put their Terms of Service

An Update on Reclaiming Efforts

A few weeks ago when Google announced the discontinuation of Google Reader effective July 1st what began as a moderate approach to reclaiming things here and there that were important to me was sent into a tailspin. Maybe that seems dramatic but the Reader shutdown really hits home to me

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