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RIP Geocities

October 27th, 2009 Chuck.P No comments

Yahoo! is dismantling Geocities, home of many a web developers first page. I never used it, because I couldn’t get it to load the one time I tried. So my first website was over at Angelfire.

Geocities’ Time has expired

XKCD tribute

SDMB thread on the closing

SDMB thread on the XKCD tribute to the closing

And I’ve procrastinated enough.

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Chuck Gets Writing Gig

October 14th, 2009 Chuck.P No comments

I’ll be writing the occasional blog post at the blog of Michigan’s Center on International Relations, a part of the Roosevelt Institute. My first speed-written article is here: Humanitarian Aid as Soft Power.

Funny story about this article. I was asked to write it before the IR Center’s meeting tonight. So, at 5:55pm, I sat down and pounded it out; took me an hour. Got to the meeting room at 7:10. That’s when I realized that the IR Center meets at 6. So I fucked up doubly. Ah well…

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