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ta ta for now

It’s become clear to me that my constant thinking up of topics to put on the blog is unsustainable. Lately I’ve been squeezing out a lot of posts.  Several per day.  And that in itself is, I hope, not a bad thing.  The dialogue has been fascinating, and writing down thoughts has forced me to [...]
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wow. thanks, google.

And all along I’d thought the reason traffic keeps going up monthly for this site was that I was writing great stuff.  I guess not.  It turns out that for some reason Google loves me. 
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hebrew day 1

Last few weeks, I’ve been in the process of transferring my future classes toward a major in Hebrew.  Now, I’m not doing this for the sake of my blogging, although I hope it will make me better at talking about issues involving Hebrew.  I have dabbled slightly up to this point in learning a little [...]
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i invented blogging? a history of fontwords.com

I’m currently involved in reading Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg, an engaging account of the history of blogging.  One of the interesting aspects of the book is its, uhm, history of blogging.
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a suggestion for those who contact me

I’ve got a contact page you can use to send me messages personally. Sometimes you send me really interesting thoughts, thoughts which I might want to repost online.  But I don’t always know whether you’d be comfortable with that, and I don’t want to betray your confidence.  So I’ve got a suggestion. When you send [...]
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have i just experienced a significant epiphany tonight?

I’m not sure.  I just read about half of a book on blogging, and it seems like a whole lot of ideas are coming into sharper focus. Maybe I’ve just seen some profound insights into what blogging is and what I’m doing with this website and how to best reach people with ideas. Maybe I’m [...]
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dear readers,

I’m off to some sort of retreat or camp or something church-related.  I can’t for the life of me remember where it is, nor do I know what exactly I’ll be doing out there wherever it is I’m going, but there’s a guy named Joe Rubino speaking, and I’m told he’s pretty good.  I’ll be [...]
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the people have spoken

Or, more accurately, Joel has spoken. He pointed out to me that there was no little widget to let people subscribe to the comments for a post. And so now there is one. If anyone else has comments on how to enhance the conversation here, your thoughts are welcome.  And you can put them in [...]
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a note to all my russian (?) fans (?)

No.  I probably really don’t have any Russian fans commenting on this site.  I do, however, receive a large number of comments on this site that are written in Russian (or at least in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russia) and send links to a variety of strange and unwonderful websites. Now, I have nothing [...]
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on focus

As I begin a new quarter in college and am currently taking on studies in two languages which I would ideally like to master, I realize that it’s going to take a higher level of focus in my studies.  So, at least for a while, I’ll be limiting my blog posts to once a week, [...]
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