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A Holiday Message

December 24th, 2010  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

I hope you’ll pardon the off-topic interruption, but a) I have a Tumblr now and b) I wrote a short piece that I hope you’ll check out.

Been Busy Lately

November 13th, 2010  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

But we’ll be back after a leisurely weekend with the paper:

Eight Years and Counting

June 11th, 2008  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

Eight years ago today I turned on the blog portion of this site. The changes have been many, from platforms (Blogger-GreyMatter-MovableType-Wordpress) to look (various styles borrowed from people actually competent at design) and content. I’ve tried to narrow the focus, but turns out my interests keep changing. So it goes. Thanks for coming along for [...]

Speaking of Winners

April 8th, 2008  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

Some Alterations

January 7th, 2008  |  by Derek Willis  |  published in Miscellany

Observant readers, who now surely number in the low double-digits, may notice some tinkering here lately. I’ve moved this domain to a new host, Webfaction, and am setting things up so I can run Django at root along with this WordPress-powered blog alongside. In the near-term, that means some redirects, including the RSS feed (which [...]

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