Monthly Archives: June 2009

One small step for man, one giant week.

Holy cow, in one week I visited my new hometown, committed to marathon training, joined a new hacker space (http://www.hacdc.org), planned my move and two conferences, and somehow worked a full week, besides. I must be forgetting a few life altering events – it’s late. I’m back to SF for a couple of weeks to [...]

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Facebook for nonprofits, explained.

I’ve been looking into how best to setup Facebook for a nonprofit, and wanted to share what I’ve learned. Facebook can be confusing and without being informed it’s easy to go down the wrong path and waste a lot of effort. First of all, you probably don’t want to use your organization name on your [...]

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I’m too (S)portly for my shirt.

After flirting with running for years I’m finally taking the leap of faith. My hope is that health permitting, I’ll be able to qualify for the 2010 DC marathon which takes place next March. To qualify, by June 4th I need to complete a 10k in 1:05, which is 6.21 10.45 minute miles. While I’ve [...]

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