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One thing I forgot to mention in Part 1 of The Interview was that the question doesn’t need to be reserved for technical oriented interviews. Playing with the wording a little bit, allows the question to be suited to just about any type of position. I used this same question technique when I was asked [...]
So for those that don’t *really* know me, I tend to be a bit of an introvert (ok, ok, for those that *really* know me, a lot of an introvert), and can have some pretty geeky tendencies at times. But I think the subject matter of this post could be useful to both introverts and [...]
This past Saturday, I did my first real day trip on my motorcycle and it was a lot of fun. Apparently the route I took is called the “5 and dime” by certain people. Basically you take VA State Route 5 (Main St) out of Richmond, head down to the Jamestown Ferry, then proceed through [...]
Here are my top 25: (click on image to enlarge)
Six days and 349 miles down (nope, haven’t been using it to commute, that’s pure pleasure riding). I’ve found some pretty good stretches of road where I can just kind of cruise, enjoy some good scenery and not really be bothered by traffic except on odd occasion. At this rate, I’m going to have to [...]
2008 Suzuki GSF1250SA (Bandit) Excuse the not-so-great photograph. I snapped it real fast with my phone after driving it home. I’ll try to take some pictures with my real camera soon. If you’d like to know the spec’s, here is Suzuki’s page on the 2008 Bandit. I’ve gotten about 100 miles on it now and [...]
For those of you that didn’t know, I recently took the motorcycle safety class that let’s you get the “M” endorsement on your license in Virginia. You can just take the DMV test, but taking the class is definitely a good idea. Anyhow, I took the class this past weekend and passed, so I now [...]
Installed Disqus comments
Disqus has released a new version of their plugin which overcomes some of my concerns about using the service. A brief bit of background. Disqus is basically a robust commenting system. It allows for threaded comments (replying to specific comments, better facilitating conversation within comments), it allows for community moderation of comments (if someone leaves [...]