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I Got a Desk in San Francisco

March 14th, 2007
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Over the past 4 months I’ve given the working at home environment a decent try out only to find that I’m going nuts by myself all day. It’s not bad for short stings but for long periods, say 4 months, it leaves something to be desired. Instead of hanging out with the cat all day I’ll instead be sitting at a desk upstairs at Adaptive Path in the South Park neighborhood. To say I’m excited doesn’t quite cover it. Today I have not only the opportunity to start meeting people in the tech community but also to have new places to eat! Did I mention I like eating?
Being alone was at first liberating in that I had no interruptions but over time it became a burden. Not having someone to interrupt means you just might work too long and your wrists will start killing. Then there’s the whole issue of transitioning your day job from a very interactive office in Seattle to a remote workspace. You have to change the kind of work you do assuming you were dependent on those office interactions. Think about how contractors work – big chunks of well defined work that have only moderate requirements for people interaction. With my new space and a new focus on how I work I think this is going to make for a very positive change.

Plus new places to eat!

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Moving Forward

March 1st, 2007
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I spent almost 3 hours over the last few days attempting to resurrect my old blog with no success. It turns out that during the PowWeb migration last July all my MovableType BerkeleyDB files became corrupt. I cannot resurrect them on either a Windows of OS X machine using the latest version of BerkeleyDB. Thus I will move forward with my new blog. Not all is lost, I have archives of my old blog, but reproducing each one by hand in WordPress will take time. 4 years worth of blogs is worth it I imagine.

In the next week I will replace my now stale blog with this new shiny WordPress blog. Wish me luck!

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