Author: phoneboy

It seems strange to spend all this time on a blog that, in the end, my dad thought was a waste of time. That said, I didn’t have much of a relationship with my dad from about the time I was in college. The blog, which covers from about 2006 onward, has a number of…

I recently went through my dad’s blog on Vox and copied it over to Posterous. He also took a number of pictures over the years. I’ve put a few of my favorites in this gallery. Some of these he took with a real camera, some he took as stills from his video camera. One I’m…

Every once in a while, someone asks me why–as a man–I have such a childish nickname–PhoneBoy. It’s a nickname a friend gave to me in the 1990s. Given the mild amounts of notoriety associated with it, it seems silly to change it now. That said, it embodies a certain aspect of my personality I hope…

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Word came out today that Six Apart’s Vox blogging service is entering the deadpool–closing it’s doors on 30 September. Not a huge shock since the service, which I originally liked quite a bit, failed to evolve in a meaningful way. I had imported my own Vox blog not too long ago and deleted my Vox…

The problem with having a blog is that you sometimes have to post something so people don’t think it’s moribund. The problem is: I don’t always have a lot to say. Or at least a lot to say that I want to post for everyone to read. Even if I post something, who’s to say…

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