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Wow.  I go on vacation for a week and I’m up to my ears with catching up on things.

Hundreds of emails.  Thousands of feeds to read.

Don’t any of you people take a rest or anything?  :)

I’ve been noticing more and more that people are excluding search boxes/searching from their weblogs? Yes, I’m too lazy to seek them out right now and link to them but trust me, they’re out there. Keep your eyes open. They are missing from lots of sites. This seems strange to me [...]

I was lucky enough to get invited to check out Six Apart’s new blogging service, Vox. With that said, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I don’t know how much is going to go on over there, but you can check out my site at http://marusin.vox.com

So far, it’s pretty slick and has a [...]

Liz and I went and saw Trey Anastasio/Mike Gordon and the Benevento-Russo Duo last night at Northerly Island (thanks again, Mo, for watching Maggie). What a great show. It really renewed my faith in all things Phish. I also have to say that The Duo are unreal. Go download a [...]

We are back in “the studio”. Sound quality is back! :)

I popped my podcasting cherry I went to Barcamp Chicago last weekend An explanation of what an Unconference is - I wanted to organize a (*)camp last Fall My feeling summarized in one word: meh (I blame myself, though) My “peeps” weren’t represented “I don’t do heat well” Getting [...]

Wow, I can’t believe that July is almost over already. I really can’t tell you where the time has gone since I’ve been so busy. I’m already seeing “Back to School” ads which is never a good sign to those in school (although it was always a welcoming sign once I started going [...]

So I went to BarCamp Chicago today and don’t know how I feel walking away from it. While I was only able to attend for a couple of hours this afternoon, I can’t say I’m walking away with much.

There definitely was a share of very smart people there, but it seemed to be missing [...]

I used to have a bookmarklet for generating Amazon Associates links but it hasn’t worked for quite a while. Amazon has been known to change their URLs from time to time and with one of their changes, this tool just stopped working.

After doing a quick search I decided that rather than use someone’s overly [...]

I’ve been up since 4:00am and am still wide awake two hours later. In a way, it’s cool since I’m caught up on my feeds (even though FeedLounge has really been sucking lately ~ makes me wonder if I made the right decision switching) and email.

Oh well.

Being up early, I started getting philosophical on [...]

I cannot think of a more fitting “song of the day” than what just finished playing on my iPod right before my phone just rang. Someday, I shall explain…

“Strange” by R.E.M. (off of the Document album)

There’s something strange going on tonight There’s something going on that’s not quite right Michael’s nervous and the lights are bright There’s [...]