My usual literary fare doesn’t trend this close to self-improvement; The Engaged Groom is a rare bit of advice column material for me, given to me by my fiancée shortly after I proposed to her. Since she had availed herself liberally of both books and magazine alike, she decided that I too should have some [...]
I have providing some light maintenance development for Rob’s Now Reading plugin; since WordPress 2.7 wholly changed its interface, the plugin need some tweaking to make it work. Up to this point, I’ve been hosting it locally, mostly picking at it whenever time allows. I just updated it the other day to add a new [...]
I find myself in downtown Philadelphia, staring at the window of the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul. I am a long way from my hometown, a smallish suburb of Chicago, feeling at odds with Philadelphia’s large stature—the sixth most populous city in the entire United States—and my own touristy insignificance. I took a picture [...]
It’s more than halfway through January, and I’ve made pitifully few posts. I’ve only one book in my meme so far (though, in my defense, I’m currently reading five books, with a sixth to be added soon). It’s a cop-out, I realize, but I’ve been terribly busy lately. This previous week was my fiance’s last [...]