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August Recap

September 2, 2011
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I can’t believe it’s September already. This summer really went too quickly. Of course, I think we say that every September. So what did August hold for me? VEDA As you are aware, in the month of August I participated in VEDA – Vlog Every Day in August. I even managed to almost do it [...]

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Four years

May 26, 2011

Four years ago today, I married my best friend in the world. It’s been a crazy and awesome four years. In our first year of marriage, we bought ourselves a fancy-pants new SUV, aka “The Fay”: Year two is when we bought a new house. I can’t seem to find a picture of it, so [...]

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An open letter to my aircard

March 7, 2011
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Dear Aircard, I think you are awesome in theory. I love the idea of being able to be online while I’m on the train and do a bunch of cool internetting. However, please stop sucking, signal-wise. AT&T Aircard + BNSF train line have turned into a total fail. Love, Matt

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February 2011 Wrap-up

February 28, 2011
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Inspired by this post by @writetoreach, I have decided to do monthly “personal” wrap-up posts. I’ve long struggled with how to integrate more personal posts with all the tech tips and other geeky type of posts on this blog, and a monthly summary seems to be a good way to do this. So without further [...]

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A letter from my past

December 8, 2010
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A few years ago, my friend Trapper introduced me to a pretty cool service called FutureMe. Basically, it allows you to schedule emails to be sent to yourself at a future date. Trapper used this service to send himself emails on his birthday every year, which I thought was a pretty cool idea…so I started [...]

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Wedding video montage

August 6, 2010

My wife’s friend Kristen is getting married, and they were discussing wedding videos and such. Since the version of our montage that I uploaded to YouTube was disabled due to music copyright issues, I’ve decided to just embed it here instead. For the record…those of you who have had weddings – did you have a [...]

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Ask away

July 14, 2010

Image by Matt Stratton via Flickr I’m totally stealing an idea from Ashalah, and using the “question and answer” format to try to pry myself out of a blogging hiatus. Just ask me questions you’d like me to answer about anything and I will answer in a post next week. HOW – Post your question [...]

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