I’m doing my best to do more of the cooking. To that end, I bought Joy of Cooking and Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. From the latter, here’s my attempt at Italian beef stew.
Author: Matt Morris
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It’s no fun having to turn down interesting work. No fun at all.
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Home Internet Usage
After reading that Comcast announced 1TB bandwidth caps, I took a look at our home bandwidth usage.
I can’t think of any one thing that I do that uses significant data. We just have two iPhones and a few computers doing normal things. (Online backups should considered a normal thing that everyone does.)
It’s clear that 1TB has to be the new minimum cap.
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May is going to be a big month. We go back to Charleston for the baby’s cardiac catheterization, and they’ll set a date for the definitive surgery.
An Anthology of Personal Websites
I’ve maintained a personal website since I got to college in 1998. My first few sites were hand-coded html and resided on the university’s Solaris server. Along the way, I tried Geocities, Microsoft Front Page, Dreamweaver, Blogger, and iWeb. At no point during the first decade did I manage to create a readable website.
/~mjm9
- 1998 – 2000
This page is wonderfully bad. All it’s missing is an “under construction” animated gif. And WTF was I thinking when I collected these “ very useful or interesting links.” Ponderous. - August 2001
I think I built this page by hand with html and css. If you click around you’ll see I was into fencing at this time. - December 2001
A friend helped me build this version using Dreamweaver. Each cell of the navigation menu was an image, but they don’t all show up here. I probably have a copy of the original code on a Zip Drive somewhere. - May 2004
This is the only remaining evidence that I wrote my own blogging engine in PHP. The project lived at a different URL which was not scraped by archive.org. - August 2004
Looks like I tried Blogger for the first time. Wow, I’d totally forgotten that I’d written about my trips to Italy and Mexico.
matthew-morris.com
- November 2006
This one was built with iWeb and lived on shared hosting somewhere.
mattmorr.is and matt.ph
- 2012 Onward
I used Octopress, etc., on these domains. I’ve done scripted migrations from one platform to the other, but it looks like some of my old posts are missing.
Back to WordPress
Ghost is a great blogging platform, but I’ve migrated back to WordPress for a few reasons.
- Ability to post from various iOS apps. (Check out Blogo)
- Wider selection of themes
- Support for link posts
- Greater customizability
Oh and the migration took about 5 years and went WordPress → Octopress → Jekyll → Tumblr → Ghost → WordPress. Time is a flat circle.
New Rules for Management of Retirement Accounts→
You can be sure that 401(k) advisors already have a plan to continue concealing costs and conflicts of interest from their customers.
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This can’t hurt, right?
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Sometimes I really hate computers.