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A check in…
No, I haven’t abandoned the resolution (although last week I did miss my first weekly post of the year… I’ll make up for it with two posts in the coming weeks so it’ll at least hit the 52 entry mark). Sadly, however, I lack the time to write something really stupendous this week. My plans…
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The Hunger Games Trilogy
So, that trilogy I mentioned over the last two posts was actually the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins– The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. My interest in the books was piqued late last year when the trailer for the forthcoming movie adaptation was released. The trilogy features a dystopian future in which the world…
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The digital frontier
So, let’s try something new this year. I resolve (which all but guarantees that I won’t actually succeed in keeping this promise) to write something, at minimum, once a week this year. I do not promise that it will be deep nor particularly insightful, but it will be something that in the end will hopefully…
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Goodbye, MMXI…
I stare at this screen with about a dozen thoughts jumbled in my head, each clamoring for the attention it deserves while competing with the nagging thought that none of them actually will. In my oft-mentioned “drafts” portion of the blog, I see an unfinished post that barely got started looking back at the year…
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That this post had to be the one to follow the last leaves me with a profound sense of sadness. When I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away, I immediately took to my MacBook to confirm the news on MacRumors or TUAW, but didn’t even have to go that far because the default Apple…